A Quintella On Quintella
...Eight syllables per line's the way,
so to use the Quintella’s form
in five lines to which I conform,
I’ll rhyme with a b b a a.
This Spanish form is A-okay!...
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Categories:
quintella, poetry,
Form: Quintilla
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
...quintella (Spanish quintain) in pentameter
Hard-working spider, you do your part,
instinctive busy spider that thou art.
You speak without doubt as you weave your web.
It is we humankind that t...
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Categories:
quintella, 11th grade, humanity, strength,
Form: Quintilla
Crowned May Queen
...Crowned May Queen
As the music flows in my mind and soul in cheer
I dance around on my toes in the sun kissed fragrant fields
of wildflowers and tall emerald green grass yields
Wi...
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Categories:
quintella, celebration,
Form: Quintilla
Effused Encounter
...EFFUSED ENCOUNTER
Neither a dream nor a trick, I beguiled--
I reach the sky enameled with golden smile.
To hurdle bumps and curves, I continue to pedal
this steadfast being...
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Categories:
quintella, beautiful, feelings, flower, life,
Form: Quatorzain
Juliet
...She stood there on the balcony
watching him riding off to war
her heart was full of mutiny
crushed she held onto the bar
there would be no matrimony
Juliet was full of acrimony
hating the pow...
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Categories:
quintella, love, war,
Form: Quintilla
Getting Married At Christmas
...( I have written the poem in three different forms: Quintain, Quintella and Quinzaine forms
respectively)
Getting married at Christmas
Never heard! No, I wouldn't want to marry on Christmas day.
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Categories:
quintella, marriage,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Formal Evening
...Haibun trying to read your mind from afar,
sitting acrostic from you at the bar.
Iamb itching to sit on the stool beside you,
but somebody's sonnet - and I don't think she'll move.
Are we just a ...
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Categories:
quintella, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Tasting Bliss
...You may not love me that's okay
A Taste of you would make my day
Others will never know this bliss
You bless me with an angel kiss
Then swiftly turn and fly away
A Catch-Phrase Dazzeler Poetry Conte...
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Categories:
quintella, angel, beauty, girl, me,
Form: Quintilla
Redeeming the Leaf
...In early Autumn, the leaves change dress.
As early chill in night time breeze caress
and cool to adorn with colored hue,
succinct palette,
glazed by frost from morning dew.
Slowly the leaves...
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Categories:
quintella, nature,
Form: Quintilla
Art
...Wet colors blended into one
New creations beheld in awe
Artistic beauties without flaw
Eyes behold glory as the sun
Textures combined into such fun!
quintella 8 syllables each line...
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Categories:
quintella, art
Form: Quintilla
Confused Poet Two
...I was feeling a bit acrostic, and could not hide my dizain from that silly ekphrasis
skin condition they burned in elegy. So I sent an epigram to the seismology
department, where it registered o...
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Categories:
quintella, adventure, funny, on writing
Form: Free verse