Poetry Deep Dive 4
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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.
- a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term 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 Long-Term Hold
- Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
- Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete
- Lyrics for K. by AC Benus 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
- Hymenaios, or the Marriage of the God of Marriage by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
- 1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Terpsichore Behind the Mask by Parker Owens Complete
- Second Sight: Remembering Some San Francisco Neighborhoods by AC Benus Complete
- Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
- June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
- Seasoning of the Seasons by Valkyrie Complete
- Fountain, Field and Forest by Parker Owens 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.
- Pride Month, and other Haibun by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
- The Walled Garden of Enchantment by AC Benus Complete
- Lorca’s "Love from the Darkness Sonnets" by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
- Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman" by AC Benus Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Free-Verse
poetry that follows natural speech patterns, but does not rhyme or follow a regular meter
- tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy In Process
- Headstall's Reflections by Headstall Temporary Hold
- Occasional Poetry by Parker Owens Complete
- Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
- timmy's poetry by Mikiesboy Complete
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets by AC Benus Complete
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- Cozy Contemplations by Headstall Long-Term Hold
- Musings of a Messed Up Mind by Mikiesboy Complete
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 In Process
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- NaPoWriMo - 2017 by Emi GS Complete
- Poems and Short Quips by MacGreg Long-Term Hold
- Headstall's Poetry Prompts by Headstall Complete
- JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete
- My Twentieth Year by AC Benus Complete
- April Musings by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
- A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- Musings of a Mongoose by Cynus 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 In Process
- Timmy's Journal by Mikiesboy Complete
- JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete
- Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 Complete
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- Alex's Little Book of Poems by Alex Complete
- My Poems, Satires & Other Lyrical Nonsense by D.K. Daniels Long-Term Hold
- Limerick's loony bin and other crazy sh% by Aditus Complete
- Bible Sex Laws - An Exploration in Limericks by Refugium Complete
- NaPoWriMo by Mikiesboy 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.
- Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B In Process
- 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
- Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete
- Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term 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
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Mixed Forms
a mixture of two or more forms of poetry
- The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
- Translation Trashbin by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete
- JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete
- You Were There, and other poems by AC Benus In Process
- a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
- A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus 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
- Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B In Process
- 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
- Something in the Way by Lee Wilson Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
- Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term 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
- 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.
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete
- A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
- rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term 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
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Translation
a poem translated from another language
- The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- Translation Trashbin by AC Benus Temporary Hold
- The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
- The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete
- a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
- Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete
- Hymenaios, or the Marriage of the God of Marriage by AC Benus Complete
- Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
- Miracles by AC Benus Complete
- June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold
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