Interesting poetry exercise you might like

[Sahara]

I thought this might be an interesting thing to do to test out our poetry and to try our hand at a style other than our normal one.

I stumbled across this article:

Todays-Woman - Find Your Poetry Style

Which gives an example of each of the styles in the box below.

Ok, so the aim here is to try your hand at these styles of poetry, and be brave enough to put it up in this thread under the appropriate heading:

Exercise 1 - Acrostic Poetry

Exercise 2 - Cinquain Poetry

Exercise 3 - Triolet Poem

Exercise 4 - Tongue Twisters

Exercise 5 - Couplet

Exercise 6 - Ghazal

Exercise 7 - Epiphany Poem

Exercise 8 - Limerick

Exercise 9 - Letter Poems

Exercise 10 - Quatrain Poetry

Interested?

I will also be having a try to, I just need to cook dinner for the kids first, and the usual mummy stuff, so I will add my attempts later.

Looking forward to seeing your responses.

 

[Totenkindly]

I'll definitely submit more when I get some time to think...
... but I did the easy one first.

Exercise 8 - Limerick
There once was a writer so cursed
That her pieces came out in reverse
Her prose always rhymed
(despite her designs),
And her poetry always came out wrong.

 

[Oberon]

There once was a woman named Jen
Whose mind was as sharp as her pen.
She wrote lots of verse
A lot of it worse
But some better now and again.

 

[Athenian200]

Exercise 1 - Acrostic

Paradox

Paradise is out of reach
Along the banks are battered trees
Right before the dawn approaches
Ardent generals marshal forces
Dauphins prepare to chart their courses
Obelisks of stone and steel
Xenophobia belying

Exercise 2 - Cinquain Poetry

Human
curious, imperfect
Loving, hating, learning
Mortal vainly seeking immortality
-Conflicted

Exercise 4 - Tongue Twisters

Tyrannic tigerish types task the torrid time turgidly
Tying taxes to the tallied tangibles, turning them traitorous

Exercise 6 - Ghazal

Even powerful princes are lothe to challenge
The one who defeated that mighty gallant

The one who defeated him was indeed a very grim
Knight and not a gentlemen, lacking in valiance

His lackluster honor is compensated by his ardor
Appalling as he is, fear doth kindle his alliance

But walls of stone are nothing before his wretched horn
Torn asunder are his enemies, destroyed by his salience

What then shall undoeth him? Push him out beyond the rim?
Compassion is what will subdue him, though it seemth dalliance

Exercise 10 - Quatrain

The shadows I fled in the endless night

Coalesce now to flicker and spite

They have grown too wise for me to outwit

Their surmount proved a ghastly twit

 

[Sahara]

Good limericks Jennifer and Oberon, looking forward to hearing some more when you get the time.

Ok, I'm going to try some now, and add more after.

Exercise 1 - Acrostic Poetry

Creature of myth
Elusive yet true
Not horse nor man
Trained for bravery
Armour glimmering
Unrivaled strength
Running with the dark hunt
Speed be with you great warrior


Exercise 2 - Cinquain Poetry

Humans
Diverse, unique
Caring, clever, callous
A deeply confusing connundrum
-Always

(apparently this is a modified cinquain, a true cinquain poetry is written using five non-rhyming lines that contain 22 syllables in a predictable syllable pattern (2-4-6-8-2).)


Exercise 3 - Triolet Poem

(to be added)

Exercise 4 - Tongue Twisters

(to be added)

Exercise 5 - Couplet

(to be added)

Exercise 6 - Ghazal

(to be added)

Exercise 7 - Epiphany Poem

(to be added)

Exercise 8 - Limerick

A man took the short cut to town
Clothed in his mums dressing gown
The wind came along
And showed us his thong
Before he managed to pull it back down.

Exercise 9 - Letter Poems

(to be added)

Exercise 10 - Quatrain Poetry

(to be added)

The rest I need to focus on, so I will do tomorrow, I am actually enjoying this.

 

[cosmicdancer]

I thought this might be an interesting thing to do to test out our poetry and to try our hand at a style other than our normal one.

I stumbled across this article:

Todays-Woman - Find Your Poetry Style

Which gives an example of each of the styles in the box below.

Ok, so the aim here is to try your hand at these styles of poetry, and be brave enough to put it up in this thread under the appropriate heading:




Interested?

I will also be having a try to, I just need to cook dinner for the kids first, and the usual mummy stuff, so I will add my attempts later.

Looking forward to seeing your responses.

OK - here is my quick effort at Ghazal - don't laugh


I stand looking up to the night sky asking why
Why we're here and which is the way?

The sky looks back with one cold silent eye,
There is no answer, it's just a game we play

So I bury my head and hide what I feel
I feign ignorance and play the laughing joker

I follow the rules and pretend it's all real
Make the best of my hand in this game of poker

 

[Sona]

There once was a woman named Jen
Whose mind was as sharp as her pen.
She wrote lots of verse
A lot of it worse
But some better now and again.

You call that an effort?

Thats utterly shit.

Ok here goes:

Epiphany Poem
Slender beams of light enter
this darkened place as I kneel,
always a slave, always fearful,
frozen here,
waiting.

Tortured forms wrought in panes of glass loom as
dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
infiltrating my darkened soul.

A reflection on an angel's face.

I raise my head, now submitting to
this uncaring salvation.

 

[Oberon]

There once was a woman named Jen
Whose mind was as sharp as her pen.

Of course, I'm not telling anyone that Jennifer's "pen" is sidewalk chalk...

 

[Sona]

Freestyle Rap

I'm concise-and-spit-rage, so you know it's wise-to-dig-graves..
'cause I'm known to get a knife-and-big-blade just to slice-a-ribcage!!
i just don't give a f*ck.. like i punched God and stole-his-vision,
bringing words deep enough to make a bold-incision on a whole-religion!!!
it was a cold-decision, but people still speak-of-the-fear..
of when they saw the peak-of-a-spear go down deep-in-the-ear!!
and i-think-calm-and-tame until i start writing-bars-that-reign..
then i-bring-harm-and-pain like a machete slicing-scars-and-veins!!
i work-the-mind to search-and-find words-that-rhyme..
to pack a verse-combined with evil scriptures like i cursed-a-shrine!!!!
always first-in-line to hurt-a-spine! so can you handle-the-torture?
'cause i got the plans-of-a-soldier that's ready to bang-the-revolver!!
start-heating-the-neck, getting deeper like sharks-eating-the-flesh..
leaving hearts-beating-to-death like sticking a 100 darts-deep-in-the-chest!!
my art's-neat-and-possessed, equipped with bars-that-puncture,
I'm so raw.. i got the ability to carve-a-sculpture just to scar-a-culture!!!

 

[cosmicdancer]

You call that an effort?

Thats utterly shit.

Do you realise how hurtful a comment like that can be Sona?

 

[Oberon]

Do you realise how hurtful a comment like that can be Sona?

Thank you for your concern, cd, but Sona's comment didn't hurt me.

 

[Oberon]

You call that an effort?

Thats utterly shit.

I agree. I gave it the time and attention warranted by a limerick designed to poke fun at an old friend. I really am not interested in participating in the larger competition, thanks.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I'm not much of a fan or a writer of poetry, but I do like limericks.

There was a man from London fair
Who was schtupping his wife on the stair
The bannister broke
But this plucky young bloke
Finished her off in midair

 

[The Ü™]

I'm not much of a fan or a writer of poetry, but I do like limericks.

There was a man from London fair
Who was schtupping his wife on the stair
The bannister broke
But this plucky young bloke
Finished her off in midair

Me neither. I just don't understand the point of poetry. When it doesn't rhyme it has no point. And who the hell pays attention to meter and syllables when they're reading a poem? (That sounds like a job for a Sensor.)

I like joke limericks like yourself, though.

There once was a man from Iraq
Whose balls were the length of his cock
When he'd get an erection
He'd play a selection
From Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

[niffer]

There once was a fuhrer of uber
Whose timing skills couldn't get n00b-er
His post niffer read
And down south she fled,
In anger, to slice off his boob-er

 

[Lateralus]

There once was a fuhrer of uber
Whose timing skills couldn't get n00b-er
His post niffer read
And down south she fled,
In anger, to slice off his boob-er

 

[Sona]

Do you realise how hurtful a comment like that can be Sona?

Well... Yeah it could be hateful. I just wanted to get my point across.

Maybe I should have said: "that wasn't a good effort"

 

[Sahara]

I actually enjoyed oberons limerick, it was silly and on a personal level I understood it, I thought it was a good effort for something that must have took him all of 10 seconds to think up.

As to the rest, loved them, athenian and cosmic dancer thanks for trying out some of the harder ones.

Is it the P in me that has made me lose interest in trying? lol I will get round to my ones soon.

 

[Sona]

I actually enjoyed oberons limerick, it was silly and on a personal level I understood it, I thought it was a good effort for something that must have took him all of 10 seconds to think up.

As to the rest, loved them, athenian and cosmic dancer thanks for trying out some of the harder ones.

Is it the P in me that has made me lose interest in trying? lol I will get round to my ones soon.

Brings a quote to mind: “Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

Or in your case woman.

 

[Sahara]

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