Long Iambic tetrameter Poems

Again the alarm is set.

Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.   

The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.

 She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...

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Before we look at iambic meter you must understand syllables, how they are used to break down words into separate sounds, an example, 'un/der/stand; a  three syllable word. The latter, (word), is a single...

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I saw her footprints daub the sand
    no other tracks to show, just then
      late afternoon, near August's end
  a meeting that we hadn't planned

I'd left...

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I saw her footprints daub the sand
    no other tracks to show, just then
      late afternoon, near August's end
  a meeting that we hadn't planned

I'd left...

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LAST WORD, rules:

‘LAST WORD’ poetry, another new form invented by me, (Mick Talbot), unless you know different, feedback, please
Format:
[1] 5 lined stanza’s, as many as you like. The fifth line of each the refrain, and...

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Iamb, Trochee, Spondee, Pyrrhic. Do those words have meaning for you? If not, you may find it handy as a poet to learn how to employ at least a few of them. They are names...

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He walks crooked like a cowboy
Who has ridden many a mile
Gritty fingers holding old pipe
Wrinkled face and greying mustache

Looking wisely to the night sky 
No smile passes over his lips
His is the path of a...

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Tell me truth today, I won't flinch.

I've noticed your smile with a wink;
Yes, your gesture made me to think;
Should I not take it as infringe?

I don't know, if I'm little slow.
Is it an emotional binge?
Can't...

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I remember when I met you...
I was just a scared kid who knew
Life was thirsty for all my tears.
You told me it would be okay,
I believed, but to my dismay,
You were wrong...it was what I...

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Part II - Iambic Tetrameter aabb rhyme

Part II

Concealed in dreams, revealed at dawn,
The dark brings demon things thought strong.
No morbid mood can now contain
Feigned pride residing there in pain.

The dreadful dark of dreams means fear,
As...

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You've been lost along the equinox 
of confusion's bitter myriad
And then you smile, but with a trace
of roses, pressed, between a page

We take a walk, beneath the limbs,
in filtered light, against the sun
It slips away,...

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RHYMING WAVE POETRY

The Rhyming Wave is a poetry form created by Katharine L. Sparrow, American writer and poet.
 It's format; 2 or more quatrains plus an ending couplet. Lines 1 through 3 are iambic tetrameter...

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An example of Hutinashro form.  Hope you enjoy!  Or don't...I don't know...you do you.


I saw all the vivid color.
Life lived and butterflies fluttered.
Everything was truly perfect.
The birds all sung in harmony,
I lived and...

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Lead me, my God, to Your dear heart
Where Your love’s bliss cannot depart.
There I find peace, joy, contentment
Reigning along mercy’s beauty
Reaching out midst Your grace-bounty
Along Your pardon’s fulfillment.
Draw me near Your presence always
To worship You...

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Admit the fact, it took a long time to
realize; why you can't look straight
to his eyes; feel why stay distrait
in his absence, delay can't wait.

While he's away, you behave madly too
that shows the angst; isn’t...

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BUTTERFLIES

Butterflies, in danger, realise,
and many have already gone extinct!
They could not adapt to climate warming.           •
The Wallbrown lost in my local precinct.   ...

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As dark descends upon the day...
               When footprints park a kiss today.
The slight divide of lips young verve.
   ...

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An eerie silence wrapped the bog,
I dared not move nor speak.
The chilling blanket of the fog
where evil beings creep,
conceals within tormented souls 
now stirring from their sleep,
and there with gruesome fate foretold
lie secrets they will...

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Come dive the leaves in varnished shades
along a sway in rippling sets
from green and mauve to orange blades
come dive the leaves in varnished shades
in swirls of iridescent braids
while all soft twirls adorn wind’s nests
come dive...

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I write my cursive words on you
deft fingertips and shades of blue
the place those phrases lead me to
your arbors open for me
their petals, soft, adore me …

your dermal landscape, quite aware
my glyphs wind down your...

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Why to be so much attached to image?
It's what you believe, they should think of you;
Trying to mold to match up their liking;
Changing self as they like, but there's limit.
Develop conscious idea what you
like an...

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Part I - 
Iambic Pentameter 
abab rhyme scheme

O dark demented dreams I plea thee gone; 
To leave this tortured mind at last alone. 
No more the sick sadistic bleeds at dawn 
Where tears have bared...

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Of Dreams And Wings

I speak of night as though it were
a soup astir of lovely taste -
a kiss, no haste; bright stars our light.
I speak of love as though I could
have what I would, and...

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NEW SPRINGTIME BREEZE
AN
ORVILLETTE
POEM
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The breath of a new springtime breeze,
the fresh air enticing birdsong,
growth in hedgerows, as yet tease.
Oft concealing, but not for long

The breath of a new springtime breeze.
New life in all manner of forms.
Now...

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The golden leaves have made their show
that always comes this time of year,
but now as limbs are looking bare,
an umber blanket covers ground.

I’ve seen the harvest moon on high
as farmers reap what they have sown
when...

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