Anticipatory
...Inspired by “Poems and Poets” by Anne Winter
“For once in my life,
I want to be a poem” — Anne Winter
If I were a poem
could my poem be a poet?
If such could be done
who besides ...
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Categories:
trochees, fun, humorous, poetry, poets,
Form: Light Verse
Ode to a True Poet - Apr 6
...O’ Pat Pattison, you, my brilliant teacher,
I would shower in praises, had you not
taught me better! for cliches void of thought
are as worthwhile as a couch surfin’ moocher!
O’ masterful and d...
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Categories:
trochees, appreciation, creation, love, poetry,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Seussian Salve
...You can’t force a poem, although you can try;
it seems that’s a maxim, but I don’t know why.
You smash it and bash it and beat to a pulp,
like using sledgehammers when trying to sculpt.
Sometimes...
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Categories:
trochees, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Would You Like To Meter
...Today I feel iambic! I would say
of all the meters, I like it the best.
An iamb starts with some soft sound to say
then ev'ry second syllable is stressed.
Trochees likewise, alternate their str...
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Categories:
trochees, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Seven Five Trochee
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Here’s a little form I found,
from a gal you know.
Trochees give a rhythmic sound
to its metered flow.
Lines must take syllabic care,
keeping proper score:
seven on the first and th...
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Categories:
trochees, poetry, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Bubba's Poem Barn
...Do footles ever fournicate?
From two come more, and soon there’s eight
The image conjured up ain’t great
Them spondees, trochees on a date
Gosh, aren’t they cute? They’re all the rage
right th...
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Categories:
trochees, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Metrical Units
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if meter refers to a poem’s beat ~
why are iambs, spondees, and trochees feet?
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Measuring with Metrics by Milt Hankins got me thinking......
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Categories:
trochees, silly, words,
Form: Couplet
The Composition of Shadows
...The Composition of Shadows
by Michael R. Burch
“I made it out of a mouthful of air.”—W. B. Yeats
We breathe and so we write; the night
hums softly its accompaniment.
Pale phosphors burn; the...
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Categories:
trochees, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Footprints of Angels
...My poetry looks like a heavensickness.
The paradise from which I was exiled
is locked up tight. Nor luck, nor mental quickness,
nor tractable iambuses, nor wild,
limped on their right leg troch...
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Categories:
trochees, paradise, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Iambic Pentameter
...Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in
how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak
The above lines, which are not at all poetic, are written in a specific
rhythm, o...
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Categories:
trochees, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse