Short Quatrains Poems
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Edwrd Fitzgerald a gentle manner
translated Omar Khayyam
These quatrains known asrubaiyat
so novel hedonistic &stansaic
I read the signs
Like printed words:
You aren’t mine,
You’re just a flirt,
We don’t align,
Our quatrains hurt
In seven lines.
Dorothy (nee Rothchild )Parker once for poetically famed
for penning quatrains much acclaimed
With humour she did animate
& formally elegant poetry thereby create
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
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.
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…
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
I write every verse
as if it were song
And sing every word
as the quatrains take form
Each line joins a chorus
to praise or to scorn
And read but just once
— to forever belong
(The New Room: April, 2026)
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
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
three quatrains together with a couplet
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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
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
Will S provides a short analysis of 'the true' equivalents in the nature of marriage(I speak as one married 65 years(& counting) this August month).He does this in his usual 'standard sonnet style of 3 quatrains & usual couplet conclusion albeit some outdated rhyme prounciation .
Quaintly quiet quest questions ***** 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
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
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
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
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.
Listen to poem:
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
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
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
Writer William Ernest Henley
a little known poet was he
'Invictus' * his claim to fame
inspiration** the name of the game(s)
A stoic due to illness & hospitalisation his poem *(s) & (life)became an inspirational name for the 'games' ,Mandela,RL Stevenson& Butterworth the composer..William's (born 1849 died 1903)Invictus' verse ,four abab quatrains, was written in 1875.
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"
I love poetry
Where else can tragedy
Become so achingly beautiful
Horror made ethereal
Tears like jewels
Fall musically to the floor
Even demons dance to
The rhythm you create
Nightmares shrink
Into phrases on a page
Finding haven in quatrains
Freedom in metaphors
Structure in meters
I escape into this
Fantastical world
Parallel to the harsh
Reality
I can not control