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Premium MemberINNOVATIVE poetry forms

minimalist words
  from Saroyran
visuality
 typed
typography
 from Riddell
rings
a concrete
           bell

Turnbull
  the most
   intuitive
as the reader
must
  participate
the 'unsaid'
space
the
 imaginative
bait
&cause
 of a
poignant
  thought pause



My 'Turnbull 'spaces example 

PECKING ORDER

Sparrow on the bird table


the hawk has a feast
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Categories: poetry forms, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberThe Challenge of Poetry Forms

I love the challenge of poetry forms
Giving my brain an excellent verbal workout,
Experimenting with writing beyond the norms
Lest I become stale or suffer burnout.

Giving my brain an excellent verbal workout
A critical, indispensable exercise
Lest I become stale or suffer burnout,
Results are challenging to my surprise.

A critical, indispensable exercise
This playing around with rhyming words
Results are challenging and
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Categories: poetry forms, poems, words, writing,
Form: Pantoum



Premium MemberPoetry Forms

Couplet,  2 lines poem
Haiku, 3 lines poem
Quatrain, 4 lines poem
Sonnet, 14 lines poem

Written: 6212018
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Categories: poetry forms, christian, people, poems, poets,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberMy Poetry Forms By Definition

MY POETRY FORMS by definition

SPACES 
an unwritten line..left to the imagination
FOOTLE 
a titled monometer to amuse
SEPTIMAL 
3 3 1 in ironic parody
PERFECT SIX
1 2 3 form in syllable or word

(Just four of the short forms I have created and /or  promoted here on PS over the past 9 years )

you may hear me recite
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Categories: poetry forms, poems, poetry,
Form: Monoku

Dabbling In Poetry Forms

It was a day like any other, nothing special planned that day

Neighbour's children were playing I could hear laughter over the wall.

An ear piercing scream was uttered, instantly chilled me to the bone.

Gathering my senses I sped outside, shouting "What has happened?"

As the scream ceased to roar, then with a mighty leap I looked over

In
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Categories: poetry forms, community, environment, pollution, science
Form: Blank verse



Top Ten Poetry Forms

I love to write romantic rhymes
Lavishing lovely lyrics on each lines
Singing sweet songs to send out smiles
I woo words and employ a sincere style

I am addicted to alluring alliteration
Playing with passion and perfection
I give imageries an important instruction
They place witty words in pleasant position

I am very versed in writing vibrant verses
I woo wide words in
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Categories: poetry forms, artwords, writing, love, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Poetry Forms Practice

Poetry Forms Practice

Would you believe?
I’m on to the “Gs”!
How did it happen so fast?
Some words.
And little rhymes.
Some struggles.  Chuckles.  
Trials…  Tribulation…
Okay.  Okay!
No tribulations.
Just lots of work, 
imagination, and fun…
Before long, 
short form study will be
practiced.  Practice!  Practice!
And then comes the…
Review!  
Thanks you for reading.
Adieu.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 29,
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Categories: poetry forms, on writing and words
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry