Syllable Counting
Counting syllables is a pain in my rear
Obnoxious divisions to which I must adhere
Understanding them is not clear
Never one to learn much in school
To post good poetry, I must follow the rule.
OR NOT!!!!!
Tapping each finger
Words dancing under my skin
A story in short
Both enjoyable to read yet syllable counting and metering
Are not for me they tend to bend my mind and intertwine
Where I feel free to bend the rules with free verse poetry
A particular rhythm and rhyme takes up to much of my time
Free verse sets me free to think and write at the same time
Not worrying about structuring a verse with rhythm and rhyme
Calculating thinking and structuring limits me all at the same time
forgetting the thought’s I wanted to write down
All and all both are equal and fun
Choose one or the other it is your choice, not mine
Contest: Free Verse vs Structured
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Date Created: 11/16/2019 My Birthday
I was in yoga class,
in the middle of Salutation To The Sun;
and in the moment, I imagined an hourglass,
drip, dripping- then words came in my head one by one;
and I was putting them together till a line I had spun.
We had moved on to Swan,
oh, such a lovely poise but I was syllable counting;
I was there in class but from reality I was withdrawn,
words kept drifting in my head- in words I was drowning;
we were doing the Cosmic Dancer- ouch pain was mounting.
My lines became more lines,
then we did Camel and Bridge- and a poem was in motion;
I was trying to keep the words within my mind's confines,
and finally we had moved to meditation and I was full of emotion;
my poem and I were floating in the deep blue pacific ocean.
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August 4, 2017
Quintain(English)/In The Moment
Copyright Protected, ID 926890
Written for the contest, English Quintain
sponsor, Sara Kendrick
Eleventh Place
~Breathless~
( The American Cinquain Style )
You are
So beautiful to me
In your eyes I see love
Moon, stars, in the warmth of your love
I'm breathless.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
April.14.2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain-
~ Author's Notes:
The "American Cinquain " is a poetry style created in 2010, by Dorian Petersen Potter, aka ladydp2000.
My Cinquain version( The American Cinquain Style) goes by word counting, and not by syllable counting)
~Breathless~
( The American Cinquain Style )
You are
So beautiful to me
In your eyes I see love
Moon, stars, in the warmth of your love
I'm breathless.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
March.13.2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain-
~ Author's Notes:
The "American Cinquain " is a poetry style created in 2010, by Dorian Petersen Potter, aka ladydp2000.
My Cinquain version( The American Cinquain Style) goes by word counting, and not by syllable counting)
~My Very Sweet Love~
( American Cinquain )
I dream
That you're beside me
Always holding me so very close
Against your heart and inside your strong arms
My love
My love
For you grows more
With heart that overflows with love
I'm the luckiest beneath the moon, the stars
My love.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@ 2017
March.08.2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
The " American Cinquain " is a poetry form or style created in 2010 by Dorian Petersen Potter.
My Cinquain version (The American Cinquain ) goes by word counting and not by syllable counting.
~Autumn Is Here Again~
(The ( Free Style) Diatelle)
Fall
Vibrant
Colorful
Such nice season
Watching the leaves changing
Colours and then just falling
From every single tree covering all the ground
As the weather suddenly changes and just cools down
During this time of the year and right thru
Perfect time to enjoy nice walk
Spend time with family
Have a good time
Relax some
All the
Time
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2010
September.25.2016
The Diatelle is a fun, syllable counting form like the etheree with a twist. This poetry form may be written on any subject matter and looks best center aligned in a diamond shape.The Diatelle form was created by Bradley Vrooman.
I searched for a poetry site
found quite a few that weren't right
then this wonderful group
called poetry soup
made me feel just "write"
I knew nothing of forms or meter
syllable counting was sweeter
In this soup pot
I learnt quite a lot
And my writing got neater
I entered contests at times
with poems both fun and sublime
and so here I am
with my poetry fam
enjoying both free verse and rhyme
Writing a Haiku
Try not to Obsess about
Syllable counting
As for each number
Thirteen appreciation
No superstition
As for each colour
Violet appreciate
No superstition
As for animals
Black cat appreciation
No superstition
Appreciation contest
revisited to conform the correct HaiKu syllable counting
Silk scarved words; silver lined apocalypse-
A distant stars regret will not ever
Surmount rash amounts of emotion, this
Disgusting leak of Heart, preyed on. Never
To match sunstroked day breaking; wint'ry
Fragments protrude strangely from corpse smiles
Which speak speak drifting incantations with me,
A deaf mute, caged by the shine of your eyes.
Traversing a circle of little Death,
A cycle of red and blues: cardiac
Arrest of the sweetest sortings; now to mesh
Touch with sultry glances that counteract
Vocal chords on the offensive. Nothing
Beyond other's whispers, not worth hearing.
"Silver Lining"
Jenna-Nichole Conrad
Wordsmith
(Disclaimer: I could not find a correct, per-se, form to put this under. The rhyme scheme and syllable counting match Shakespearean Sonnets, but I would consider this more of a 'Free Verse' Sonnet. As there was no proper category for me to submit this under, and I do not want readers to believe I am submitting wrong or falsely promoting my work.)
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