Short Hexameter Poems

Sir Thomas Wyatt brought it to our English scene,
called a  dodecasyllabo or alexandrine:
whatever!..
an iambic hexameter is what it means

inspired by John's 12 syllable line contest...

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'Poetry' pinged me
  I shiver and cringe
I know what she wants
  With her probing syringe

To prod me with metaphor
  Simile and eloquent imagery
Line, foot, iambic pentameter
  Assonance, consonance
               trochaic hexameter

But I'll have none of it
  Cogito, ergo sum!
Here a bit of free verse
  There a dash of rhyme
    ~ May 'Poetry' fume...

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Love Without Hope


She holds his passive face within her loving hands...

eyes meet...she warmly looks into dark emptiness.

Her staunch committed love, without hope, understands;

she's there for him throughout Alzheimer's loneliness.


Sandra M. Haight

~14th Place~
Contest: Love Without Hope
Sponsor: Sara Kendrick
Judged: 04/01/2016

Iambic Hexameter (12 syllables, 6 feet)
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Magnolia blossoms creamy white dappled with gray
Sway the day from foggy veil sprinkled across way

The contrast creamy white against waxy green leaves
Adds beauty brightening life upon summer's humid eve 

Unfinished and may never be finished...

Trying to do Hexameter: 
Twelve syllables per line with it reading unstressed/ stressed...
Very difficult to have to look up every word since I would not pronounce these 
words like they are suppose to be accented.....

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