Tetra Poems | Examples

Black Hat 2222

Tetra Two 2222 is a black hat
Unknown sabotaging the system
Making our identities vulnerable
Hacking tracking & blackmailing..

My Hearts Liken a Goldfish Bowl Housing Blue Neon Tetra-Cd

My heart sore liken a goldfish bowl
 an aquarium filled with neon tetra fishes so
 you are skimming, swimming, through my heart
 in due process
 yet ever so smart 
my love for you is blue
 your favorite color is to 
royalty astounded your heart  
found it I cherish your colors hue
 you my heart beats Forever Blue

5/31/22
Written by James Edward Lee Sr.2022©

On Soup

(A TETRA-PENTAMETER...)

(8 Lines, 10 Syllables)

Many a talented writer features
Here on Soup. Whatever dreamt up creatures
Rise and shine in the poetic limelight,
They're inspiring! And most Soupers just might
Develop their own for the site. Alone,
Creatively, their own skills hone. Mind blown!
But proof they've grown... In order to succeed,
Indeed, write to make others want to read.


(10 Lines, 8 Syllables)

Many a talented writer
Features here on Soup. Whatever
Dreamt up creatures rise and shine in
The poetic limelight, they're in-
Spiring! And most Soupers just might
Develop their own for the site.
Alone, creatively, their own
Skills hone. Mind blown! But proof they've grown.
In order to succeed, indeed,
Write to make others want to read.


21st October 2021

Poetics and All That

Here this?

rise(iamb,anapest)
    meters
TWO
TWO
    meters
            fall(trochee,dactyl)
in my poem they do sit
each the others opposite;

a foot is two syllables long,
lines of them make up my song
any such line..is fine
mono,di,tri..1,2,3
tetra,penta,hexa..4,5,6
hepta,octa..7,8
but..
if this topic still makes you yawn
just keep on with open form!

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2012

Tetra Couples

Wow great couples tetra
In vintage portrait of an inn spectra
Letting hair down amiably
Grooming too amicably
Socializing to the hearts’ content
Seems their mutual intent
With their perfect mate
Relish the quality moment
After painting the town red
Now chilling on sofa spread
Vibrance oozes from their mien
As they share their bonds umpteen
For the four super couples
My verse here makes ripples..!!

My Choice Metered Verse

rise(iamb,anapest)
    meters
TWO
TWO
    meters
            fall(trochee,dactyl)
in my poem they do sit
each the others opposite;

a foot is two syllables long,
lines of them make up my song
any such line..is fine
mono,di,tri..1,2,3
tetra,penta,hexa..4,5,6
hepta,octa..7,8
but..
if this topic still makes you yawn
just keep on with open form!

Who's Who At the Zoo

Anacondas crush to pieces
Bisons sport long shaggy hair
Cheetahs are the fastest species
Dolphins leap into the air
Elephants have large incisors
Fennec foxes, ears like Spock
Great white sharks unnerve the divers
Hyenas are laughing stock
Indris is a type of monkey
Jaguars are fast and strong
Kangaroos are tall and clunky
Llamas' necks are rather long
Mandrills have red-bottomed features
Newts can grow an extra limb
Ostriches are speedy creatures
Polar bears just love to swim
Quetzels are ablaze with colour
Rattlesnakes subdue their prey
Sloths show life could not be duller
Tawny owls sleep through the day
Uakaris have red faces
Vultures scavenge on the go
Wild boar live in diverse places
X-ray  tetra brightly glow
Yaks lock horns when in a fight
Zebras' coats are black and white

Now you'll know just who is who
When you visit London zoo.



22.02.20

Abecedarian Contest Poetry Contest - sponsor Caren Krutsinger
Abc Contest Poetry Contest - sponsored by Allright Poet

A Piece Word For You

Late hours of evening, back to home alone
Lizards preying on insect, cockroach flying happily
No old nets of derelict spiders in dark blue airs
Archipelago scenery grinning on my coming back
(Neon Tetra, Guppies, Oscar, Mollies, Zebra Danios…etc) 
Aquarium fishes configuring themselves as pike’s teeth
Ideal lazy books on shelf peeping me all behind black regime door
On the kingdom of plain dust your footprints calling me
I'll find you before my ever sleeping on the blue valley of death
As angelic child your sleeping enjoy the nimbus in overshadow nights
All delightful rest will be with your tears on golden eyes of sun
Tissue of heart will wipe your all pain by sparkling hand of moon
Your stainless eyes will lay down with dream touching
Piece of death history will not come to you as the festival cake 
Although Death enjoys pains and Night is it bosom collaborator in elegy
Yet, my love roses are your undying friend from my endless walking path

Late or soon
I’m your boon
Everywhere together, not alone
Even if, bleached by the sun and scorched by the moon!

-November 20, 2018 Chattogram

A Visit To a Zoo

Zebras are stripy I’m sure you can see,
Yaks chewing cud as slow as can be, 
X-ray tetra in the aquarium are seen,
Warthogs with curly, white tusks that gleam,
Vertebrates aplenty, some invertebrates too,
Usually are seen at a visit to a zoo.
Tapirs with their long funny noses,
Slithering snakes in glass fronted enclosures,
Roaring tigers with camouflage stripe,
Quizzical otters eat eggs that they like,
Puma black prowls through the bush,
Orange orangutans needing a brush.
Never one to refuse a tasty dish
Macaroni penguins smell of fish,
Lions in the sunlight all day sleeping,
Komodo dragons quietly creeping,
Javan Rhinoceros with skin like armour,
Indian elephants size makes such drama,
Hippos with their mouths open wide,
Galapagos tortoise, oh what a prize!
Fennec fox with really long ears,
Endangered animals that people fear,
Dangerous animals taking a nap,
Caiman and crocodile waiting to snap,
Bold zoo keepers picking up poo,
All able to be seen at a trip to the zoo.

Summer Sea

Summer sea
Visual #1






Summer sun rises to its peak,
pampers skiers dive into the sea,
tides arc high for escape in streaks,
Summer sun rises to its peak,
giggly waves set forth a free freak,
adventure to impassioned plea,
Summer sun rises to its peak,
pampers skiers dive into the sea!






Triolet in iambic tetra meter 
Written May 26th, 2015
For contest "One lovely Summer triolet" by Andrea

When Sky Walks Down To Earth

When sky walks down to earth


You be a wild shower of monsoon,
and tranquillise my soft soul burning,
Seasons in tears flowed into lagoon,
and the heart sank into aches of yearning,

If you could see my blazing passion,
and feel the inside flame rising high,
See the sky walk down in obsession,
and come to my rescue, heave a sigh,

If you could feel fragrance of my love,
diffuse so quick in deep emotions,
Care to subtly caress your white dove,
and ponder over doubtful notions,

You be a dust storm of dry desert,
and blow away my inner grief, 
Gratify my thirst of deficient,
my ash rest in absolute relief !



Written October 31st, 2014
By Dr. Upma A. Sharma
For contest ' Top gun poetry - Structured form- Iambic verse III' by Giorgio A.V.
Iambic tetra meter with 9 syllables per line

Baron Richard

Baron Richard was a math wizard
                                         A tetra-maniac in blizzard
                                         He stole ‘4’ from Joan Miró
                                       Grabbed ‘4’ from Ground Zero
                                And Forced all "4"s into chicken gizzard

Wild But Vital

Love is flower of wild poppy,
Vivid as colorful butterfly,
Upbraiding love signify,
Animosity, animosity.

Love is fragrance of roses,
Throbs in the sigh as bruises,
music full of melodies,
Vital for all, vital for us.






Mono tetra -8/8/8/4
Two stanzas

Guidind Stars

Guiding Stars
(Rondelet)

Time shining through
With a peaceful bliss for the mind
Time shining through
Glorified sky forever blue
Heaven and earth shall always bind
Where life’s precious moment we find
Time shining through

Erich J. Goller
Copyright 8.31.2012



Rondelet
The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long - octasyllabic or tetrameter.

Refrain is the lines with the capitals. So the refrain is lines 1, 3, and 7. This is written in tetra-syllabic which is 4 syllables per line. The other lines are written in octasyllabic (8 syllables) or tetrameter (10 syllables).

Hear This

rise(iamb,anapest)
    meters
TWO
TWO
    meters
            fall(trochee,dactyl)
in my poem they do sit
each the others opposite;

a foot is two syllables long,
lines of them make up my song
any such line..is fine
mono,di,tri..1,2,3
tetra,penta,hexa..4,5,6
hepta,octa..7,8
but..
if this topic still makes you yawn
just keep on with open form!

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