Penta Poems

A Nautical Truth - Water Is Magnetic

...This is for all those of an ocean-going mind who, for no apparent reason, are compelled down to the seas again.

Throughout history, water, in all its forms, has held an attraction to humanity. Whe...
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Categories: penta, how i feel, humor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Wolf Pack

...(G Penta minor for the first lines in a ballad pulse 72 quarter, )

My wolves are my strength, and I am their strength
We are a pack, and we are family
Messing with them is messing with me
Messi...
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Categories: penta, uplifting,
Form: Ballad


5

...
"5" 

benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world 

grace, a name 
whispered before 
a meal shared

5 fingers 
on each hand
steeples, hiding people 

g...
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Categories: penta, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoetics and All That

...Here this?

rise(iamb,anapest)
    meters
TWO
TWO
    meters
            fall(trochee,dactyl)
in my poem they do sit
each the others opposite;

a foot is two syllables long,
lines of them...
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Categories: penta, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberMy Choice Metered Verse

...rise(iamb,anapest)
    meters
TWO
TWO
    meters
            fall(trochee,dactyl)
in my poem they do sit
each the others opposite;

a foot is two syllables long,
lines of them make up my so...
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Categories: penta, poetry,
Form: Didactic


Always Envious of Gifted Individuals With Neat Hand Printing Writing

...Always envious of gifted individuals with neat hand printing/writing

Gnome hatter heroic measures taken
moost ludicrously asinine,
nonetheless hoop fully
me legendary penta meat herd bovine des...
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Categories: penta, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIambic Pentameter

...Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in
how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak

The above lines, which are not at all poetic, are written in a specific 
rhythm, o...
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Categories: penta, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIambic Pentameter

...Traditional poetry is written in METER, wherein the words in 
any given line are read/heard in syllable groups called 'feet'. 
An IAMB is a foot containing one un-emphasized syllable, 
followed by...
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Categories: penta, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Open Ended Poetry Contests

...Please give us a topic, at least just a clue
I have no direction, don't know what to do
Do I scribe what I know, or write from the heart?
Or do I quote Shakespeare and try to sound smart?
A balla...
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Categories: penta, funny, humor, humorous, poems,
Form: Verse

My Penta Foot

...what i once left through iambic static phase 
i wrote no more than what a shadow breaks
to fly and stab by spear your inner mate
an walk a mile a two a dire an not be late
my foot by foot i reach...
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Categories: penta, i love you,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Basics of Metre In Poems 1

...rhythmic structure of a verse
 study of metre prosody
patterns of syllables of types
stressed syllables at regular interval
qualitative
long short short dactyl
long long spondee in dead classic...
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Categories: penta, education,
Form: I do not know?

Especially For Penta Tonix

...Santa In Disguise

Especially for Penta Tonix

What if I were wrong when I did decide
Had to find a place for myself to hide
Because buy people Had been denied
And in none of them could I conf...
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Categories: penta, encouraging,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberIf Not Now

...Garlands draped and strung. 
White creeper blossoms
 reminiscent of  snow
penta-hedron, vase shaped, 
 single bells.  Five sepal-ed,
 finial, fillistered,
 flower bowls. 
Such delicate geometr...
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Categories: penta, beauty, courage, destiny, future,
Form: Free verse

Devil Within 25 08 2013

...All my poems writ by only the greatest of pains,
Every verse born out of the memory that remains.
I sat in silence to study its golden delight;
Only for this Dreamer to awaken his Devil tonight…
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Categories: penta, dark, death, depression, emo,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCabochon

...Of bud bossed delicate; in its aroma much will enfold!
The turbulence of youth; also the seasoned and the old.
Tetra pedes, cross pages, sober.. in black, throughout the ages
Oh! to pass to others th...
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Categories: penta, beauty, dedication, urdu,
Form: Rubaiyat

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