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Forms Poems - Poems about Forms

Forms of Poetry - From Rhyme Royal to Rispetto
The rhyme royale's might, seven lines arrayed, a regal form where stories are displayed. A stately march with measured solemn tread, where history's hints are carefully read. The tanka's sigh, a moment held in hand, five lines that bloom across a quiet land. A fragile beauty in syllables defined, a whispered feeling for the heart and mind. The ottava rima's strength, eight lines...

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Categories: forms, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Forms of Poetry - From Sonnet to Rondeau
The sonnet's prison, fourteen lines precise, a gilded cage where emotions entice. A turn, a shift, the volta's sudden grace, a whispered secret in a measured space. The haiku's breath, a fleeting, painted scene, three fragile lines where nature's truths convene. A moment caught in syllables so few, a universe contained in morning dew. The villanelle's dance, a circling, haunting rhyme, repeated lines that...

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Categories: forms, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Another Life of Forms
The spiritual world is not real But psychological defence I know it brings relief and heal To a certain kind of extence But I stand by formal reality Forms make the content real Otherwise no personality Can appear and appeal I don’t argue the fantasy Its great to have some mysteries But it’s a play of fancy A comprehensive bliss We quite enjoy and treasure Still...

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Categories: forms, desire, longing, love, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MY FORMS 5 of 5 perfect six 2008
PERFECT SIX my tristich WORDS LINES SYLLABLES three two one perfect six poetics A BRIAN STRAND FORM (5x5) 2008...

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Categories: forms, poetry, word play,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member MY FORMS 4 of 5 kuhlmann 2009
KUHLMANN my kisses tristich HAPPENING From Inspiration:idea,impulse,births: ...

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Categories: forms, poetry,
Form: Tristich



Premium Member MY FORMS 3 of 5 OPEN 2012
OPEN my recited writing  OPEN FORM in lowercase without grammatical symbols ,uses spaces&breaks relying upon 'the one breath limitation' & as a  'happening' requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input &respond in a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood & thus is inherently variable. A BRIAN STRAND FORM 3x5 (2012)...

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Categories: forms, poetry,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member MY FORMS 2 of 5 footle 2009
FOOTLE my trochaic distich FOOTLE (singular)* is,a two line lines,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme). A BRIAN STRAND FORM 2x5 (2009) *STRING FOOTLES(plural ) are a variation adopted by PS poets since circa 2012...

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Categories: forms, poetry, word play,
Form: Footle
Premium Member MY FORMS 1 of 5 FULTON 2008
TEXT-IMAGE POETRY ART This visual poetic form (inspired by the work of the conceptual artist Hamish Fulton's (b 1946) landscape 'text-and-image' work 'a seven day walk in the mountains Switzerland early summer 1984'. FULTON is the name I gave in 2008 to this shape poetic form has 5 words of 5 letters or 3...

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Categories: forms, art, poetry, word play,
Form: Shape
Premium Member A World of Thoughtforms
(“Still Life”, 2021, original encaustic) A World of Thoughtforms Caught in cascade tumble Splashing here there Without time to collect my self Let alone thoughts What is up becomes down And down up. As I fall Bits and pieces Are left scattered Splashed onto shores Evaporating into nothing Leaving only flow. Somehow in the process One is made greater With their losses Stripped of identities Like so many badges Of false honor. Not greater...

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Categories: forms, earth, self, spiritual, sun,
Form: Narrative
Love comes in many forms
February is the month of Love. Love comes in many forms. This poem is inspired by Valentine's Day. May love touch your heart and your life. Love comes in many forms... By Michelle Morris 11/02/2025 Love comes in many forms... It can be the gentle healing When you've skinned your knee The kisses and the cuddles That loved ones...

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Categories: forms, emotions, feelings, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond thoughts and forms, I find myself as a wanderer on the streets of my inner Iashi
Beyond thoughts and forms, I find myself as a wanderer on the streets of my inner Ia?i, where desires and wills are dreams of imaginary characters, nature's dance is an illusion, a script penned by the unseen hand of fate, and in my search, I've found myself as a lost heteronym within my own identity, an essence of melancholy,...

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Categories: forms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lesser Forms
Again, you gave writing a go; In shame you now hang your head low. You once had a sonnet Or two in your bonnet; Now limericks are all that you know....

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Categories: forms, writing,
Form: Limerick
12 Forms of Humanity
Its the fact that they’re all alone That they had no lover anymore That their parents had passed Then with the betrayal of their friend Were it for the sorrow read from a book Or the sight of another spilt blood It’s when they saw their true love That they held ones own child That they laughed until they couldn’t draw...

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Categories: forms, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought Forms
We live what the Spirit-mind shapes and forms that which comes before the chicken and the egg Soulful-creations -- think long enough (knead, mold) deep enough adds ripple to a universe of transverse-realities -- Will is the Traveling-force and Love God's Blessed Purifier --...

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Categories: forms, christian, creation, emotions, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member INNOVATIVE poetry forms
minimalist words   from Saroyran visuality  typed typography  from Riddell rings a concrete            bell Turnbull   the most    intuitive as the reader must   participate the 'unsaid' space the  imaginative bait &cause  of a poignant   thought pause My 'Turnbull 'spaces example PECKING ORDER Sparrow on the bird table the hawk has a feast...

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Categories: forms, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic

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