Poetry Deep Dive 3
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Top Read Poems by sub-genre since Mar 2024.
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Ballad
a poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. Usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines.
- Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
- a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- 1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Second Sight: Remembering Some San Francisco Neighborhoods by AC Benus Complete
- June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- A year of schoolwork: poems I submitted for a grade by MythOfHappiness Complete
- Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete
- Song of the '70s by AC Benus Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Blank Verse
a poem with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- 1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Hymenaios, or the Marriage of the God of Marriage by AC Benus Complete
- Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
- Second Sight: Remembering Some San Francisco Neighborhoods by AC Benus Complete
- Terpsichore Behind the Mask by Parker Owens Complete
- The Foretelling by Headstall Complete
- Haiku, Secret, and Wisdom by Headstall Complete
- Breathless and Mendacity by Headstall Complete
Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Cinquain
a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. Cinquains may be paired and manipulated to create longer forms. For example, the mirror cinquain has lines of syllables 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, 2, 8, 6, 4, 2. Cinquains are often used in teaching schoolchildren early forms of poetry.
Top 1 Most Read Poetry - Confessional
Features intimate and personal revelations, often drawing on the poet's own experiences, emotions, and struggles.
- The Walled Garden of Enchantment by AC Benus Complete
Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Ekphrastic Poetry
Responds to or describes a work of visual art, capturing the essence of a painting, sculpture, or other visual medium through words.
Top 5 Most Read Poetry - Epic Poetry
a lengthy narrative poem, typically set in the far past, involving heroic and extraordinary adventures and dealings of people with gods or other superhuman forces.
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- Pride Month, and other Haibun by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- The Walled Garden of Enchantment by AC Benus Complete
- Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman" by AC Benus Complete
- Lorca’s "Love from the Darkness Sonnets" by AC Benus Temporary Hold
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Free-Verse
poetry that follows natural speech patterns, but does not rhyme or follow a regular meter
- Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
- tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold
- Headstall's Reflections by Headstall Temporary Hold
- Occasional Poetry by Parker Owens Complete
- timmy's poetry by Mikiesboy Complete
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
- Cozy Contemplations by Headstall Long-Term Hold
- One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets by AC Benus Complete
- Musings of a Messed Up Mind by Mikiesboy Long-Term Hold
Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Ghazal
A poetic form with rhyming couplets and a repeating refrain, often exploring themes of love, loss, and longing. It has its roots in Arabic and Persian poetry.
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Haiku
a short poem of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively. While there are several schools of Haiku writing, the most faithful to the original will use some aspect of the natural world as its subject, and will not contain any personal references to the writer/observer.
- tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Headstall's Poetry Prompts by Headstall Complete
- NaPoWriMo - 2017 by Emi GS Complete
- Poems and Short Quips by MacGreg Long-Term Hold
- April Musings by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
- My Twentieth Year by AC Benus Complete
- Musings of a Mongoose by Cynus Complete
- NaPoWriMo-2016 by Emi GS Complete
- A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Limerick
a poem that is typically humorous and bawdy, written in five-line, predominantly anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme.
- tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold
- Timmy's Journal by Mikiesboy Complete
- Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 Complete
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete
- Alex's Little Book of Poems by Alex Complete
- Limerick's loony bin and other crazy sh% by Aditus Complete
- My Poems, Satires & Other Lyrical Nonsense by D.K. Daniels Long-Term Hold
- Bible Sex Laws - An Exploration in Limericks by Refugium Complete
- Ode to a Perfect Willy by Riley Jericho Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Lyric
a poem that expresses personal feelings or emotions, typically written in first person. There are several general groupings of lyric poetry, including elegies, odes and sonnets.
- Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete
- a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
- A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- 1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term Hold
- June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Temporary Hold
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Mixed Forms
a mixture of two or more forms of poetry
- Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
- The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus In Process
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- Translation Trashbin by AC Benus In Process
- Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete
- Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete
- Doing It Again - NaPoWriMo April 2024 by Mikiesboy Complete
- Calliope's Carousel by Parker Owens Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Rhyming
a poem containing two or more words that repeat the same or similar sounds in the final syllable, usually placed at the end of lines placed so they echo each other
- Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
- A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- Seasons Of The Son by Lee Wilson Complete
- 1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
- Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically containing ten syllables per line, traditionally using iambic pentameter. A sonnet must contain a turning point (or, volta), in which the thread of the theme changes direction. There are three main sorts of sonnet: Italian (or, Petrarchan), Shakesperean, and Spenserian; each of these has a different rhyme scheme. The Italian rhymes ABBAABBA CDCDCD or ABBAABBA CDECDE; the Shakespearean uses ABAB CDCD EFEF GG; the Spenserian ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
- Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete
- A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- 1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
- rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin by AC Benus Complete
- Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Translation
a poem translated from another language
- The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus In Process
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- Translation Trashbin by AC Benus In Process
- The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete
- Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete
- a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- Hymenaios, or the Marriage of the God of Marriage by AC Benus Complete
- Miracles by AC Benus Complete
- June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Temporary Hold
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