Short Quatrains Poems

full moon on church’s cross

dissected into quatrains

two uneven pairs...

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Edwrd Fitzgerald a gentle manner
translated Omar Khayyam
These quatrains known asrubaiyat
so novel hedonistic &stansaic...

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Dorothy (nee Rothchild )Parker once for poetically famed
for penning quatrains much acclaimed
With humour she did animate
& formally elegant poetry thereby create...

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Love's
little song-
three quatrains,
and  couplet 
long,
in
compact
verse and rhyme;
stands the test of
time-
with
light grace
poetry
in life,face to 
face...

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Four-lined Stanzas - my Quatrains by design.
Interwoven A-B-A-B- the rhymes.
Ten syllabically are read per line.
Written -- nature, sullen, and benign times....

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Shall sonnets fairer be?
Surely the muse thought so:
Sweet lines arranged with care,
Sublime quatrains progress,
Suggestively move minds,
Seed expectations, then
Surprise! A couplet stuns…...

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ringed with marbled dreams
passions are subdued
in the soul of time
be still - listen


live
a smile, a tear
at this hour of dawn
by you lies my heart



quat sequ 2 or more quatrains in sequence...

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P oetry paints imaginative
Q uantrains, Quatrains
R hythms, Rhymes
S onnets, Shapes
T hemes of many things
U nusual, Unique
V ivid, Vivacious Verses         
     O, how we muse the imaginative Paintings of Poetry!

Copyright McCuen 2008...

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Blanket me with your presence
Love me today, my sweet
Let me bask in your essence
Make me feel complete.

I’ll give you all you desire
Starting from our love’s fire.
Drinking of each other’s wine
As I am yours and you are mine.


2 quatrains, abab, ccdd...

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three quatrains together with a couplet

Hear me recite from my 4000+PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro..

catch my short forms(like this Tien ) @strandpoet on twitter..

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Quatrains four with refrain  
    Qualifies as French form
Quality lines that rhyme
    Quite a feat to achieve 
Quest for perfect writing 
    Quickly done once begun 
Quirks of a poet's mind 


10.21.2020



For Joseph May's "Pleiades 3" contest...

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Shakespearean’s my fave.
Specific rules apply.
Stick with iambic feet.
Syllables? Ten per line
Standards say three quatrains.
See rules for how they rhyme!
Summarize with couplet.



January 18, 2022
entered in the Write About a Form Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Quaintly quiet quest questions queer quatrains
See sensuous spoken sounds sustain
Ride resounding raw refrain
Bright blessing bestows blooms
Grand gracious gift grooms
Reach rapture's room
Taste tells treats
Signs sweet
Meet




Leon Enriquez
14 December 2015
Singapore...

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Tree lined free lined stanzas
gamboling audible quatrains'
play dulcet music fair
More than nature can bear
View lovely summer's show
Blooming blossoming country fair
Lovely romp through piney woods
by melodies that cry for posey
Sing a song of rhymed delight
Catch a heart in mid flight...

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She broke my heart, what can I do?
I can’t believe she fancies you.
You schemed to tear our love apart.
What can I do: she broke my heart?

She’ll see some day you’re such a creep,
And maybe then she’ll sit and weep;
But till that time, you’ll have your way.
You’re such a creep! She’ll see some day… 

For Andrea’s Swap Quatrains contest...

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I come to you because I care
I see you here. I see you there.
You really are going nowhere.
And this I share. And this I share.

Stop your playing; too mischievous.
You’re acting so delirious!
You’re making me so furious!
Get serious! Get serious!


The monotetra: 8 syllable a line quatrains in monorhyme. Fourth line has four 
syllables and repeats...

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Like the hordes of bats which surround
the belfry of our old clock tower
wild images scurry around
pressing my mind without referee.

When the moon and stars appear,
illuminating sea and sand, 
sights unseen which ears can hear -
my incessant tongue may set free.  


written July 2016
I promised myself - no quatrains this year
so I broke the rules....

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4 sullen swords 
4 truncated tombs
4 comatose clocks
4 querulous quatrains

We of the Absurd
We of the Timed Out
We of the Checked Out
We of the Hanged

our candle-like Keywords
wax and wane UPRIGHT
cough up the REVERSED card
confined in blunted light

enter the Knight of Keyboards
spiritless warrior
brandishing weeping sword
time for The Rest
...

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When all have opportunity,
All start the same: equality
When outcomes are all you can see
Thats’s equity, that’s equity

A thumb required to make scales “true”
And who better than you-know-who
Here’s two for me, another two
And one for you, and one for you

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A Monotetra, mono rhyme quatrains, 8 syllables, with last lines each having a 4 syllable repeat...

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One day out in the country I was led
by an old pathway to a hidden place
with honeyed scent from a wild garden bed
where ruffled blooms reached toward the sky with grace.

My spirit lifted too from sheer delight.
Dew glistened on each sweet pea’s pretty head.
How beautiful that scene in sun so bright -
green grass and blossoms in purple and red!


 May 28, 2016...

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unceasing, unstoppable
a force of nature, this rain
the sun no sooner pops out 
here come the clouds and my hopes are dashed again

wretched, muddy, soggy trails
far too slippery to hike
a day that I regretted
winter’s constant rain is what I most dislike

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An Endecha, in quatrains of 7x:7a:7x:11a, intended to be a lament or a "sad song that locks up a moan"...

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The first 'real' poem I wrote
shook me to the core.
I say I wrote it but really
I think I was channelling it.

I was a fifteen year-old girl
and I wrote a poem about a soldier.
I penned it in quatrains and in rhyme;
it almost had an Irish accent.

To this day I swear there was something
definitely surreal about Dreams' Battles



AP: 2nd place 2023

Posted on June 12, 2023...

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*Image of Sonnets by Alexas Fotos via Pixabay.

Sonnet

Shakespeare Sonnets contain;
Syllables; ten per line,
Stanzas four lines; Quatrain,
Scheme; every other, rhyme,
Spanned Quatrains being thrice,
Spins in the last Quatrain,
Seals a couplet, rhyme twice.

2022 January 18
*1st Place*
Write About a Form
~~Joseph May: Judged 2022 February 19

*HMS
Rhyming Scheme: ababcac...

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let metaphor and simile embellish
posie pictures others will relish
whereas imagist show &don't tell
a psalmist pens ideas in parallel

capture images before they fly
thus imagination ne'er runs dry
everyone has a living muse
true poets always let her choose

quatrains are the basic poetic line
rhyme therein is just fine
this an example of one these
two couplets together always  please...

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With far too much to do,
and having little time,
he tapped his hat with an ink pen,
and conjured up a rhyme.

He’d hoped it would be long;
alas, he came up short.
The rest hopped out and got away,
or so they did report.

A pencil would have been
much better for that verse,
for he could threaten to erase
if they tried to disperse.

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A Short Measure: quatrains of 6x:6a:8x:6a, 6x:6b:8x:6b, etc....

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