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
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 to my surprise,
Some of my poetry is for the birds!
This playing around with rhyming words
A lifetime of pleasure it has brought
Some of my poetry is for the birds,
But, to abandon it, I surely cannot.
A lifetime of pleasure it has brought
Experimenting with writing beyond the norms
But to abandon it, I surely cannot
I love the challenge of poetry forms.
Written September 7, 2022
Couplet, 2 lines poem
Haiku, 3 lines poem
Quatrain, 4 lines poem
Sonnet, 14 lines poem
Written: 6212018
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 much of 4000+PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro..
or catch my short forms (inc those above ) astrand poet on twitter..
read my kindle poetry and christian guides on amazon
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, 2010
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