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    Poetry Deep Dive 5

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    Genre Deep Dives
    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 Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems 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 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 Lyrics for K. by AC Benus Complete Song of the '70s by AC Benus Complete Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens 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 June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete Haiku, Secret, and Wisdom by Headstall Complete The Foretelling 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.
    No stories 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 June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete Haiku, Secret, and Wisdom by Headstall Complete The Foretelling 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.
    No stories 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.
    No stories 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
    Headstall's Reflections by Headstall Temporary Hold tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold Occasional Poetry by Parker Owens Complete timmy's poetry by Mikiesboy Complete Love II by Luc Complete Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete Poems and Short Quips by MacGreg Long-Term Hold 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.
    No stories 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 Poems and Short Quips by MacGreg Long-Term Hold Headstall's Poetry Prompts by Headstall Complete April Musings by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold My Twentieth Year by AC Benus Complete NaPoWriMo - 2017 by Emi GS Complete Haiku and Tanka by Lugh Complete JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus 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 Temporary Hold Timmy's Journal by Mikiesboy Complete JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 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 NaPoWriMo by Mikiesboy Complete Bible Sex Laws - An Exploration in Limericks by Refugium 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.
    By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B Temporary Hold A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term Hold Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete 1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus 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
    By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold 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 The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus Temporary Hold The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete Zero to Hero, a Guide by AC Benus Long-Term Hold JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete a Glass Floor Underfoot 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
    By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B Temporary Hold A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term Hold Fireworks & Rain by Aditus 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 June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold 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 Temporary Hold 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 Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete Fireworks & Rain by Aditus 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 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 Temporary Hold The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete Hymenaios, or the Marriage of the God of Marriage by AC Benus Complete Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term Hold June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold Miracles by AC Benus Complete
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    Non-Fiction Deep Dive 5

    By Myr,


    Genre Deep Dives
    Top 9 Most Read Non-Fiction - Autobiography
    is a self-written account of one's life. Takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobiography may be based entirely on the writer's memory.
    An Advent Calendar by Aditus Complete A Summer Happy Place by Lee Wilson Complete It’s Not How I Remember It by paren01 Complete Pride Month, and other Haibun by AC Benus Long-Term Hold Second Sight: Remembering Some San Francisco Neighborhoods by AC Benus Complete Self-help by northie Complete Farm Tales by quokka Complete A Gay Man on His Own at Christmas by albertnothlit Complete My Coming Out Story by LittleBuddhaTW Complete Top 0 Most Read Non-Fiction - Biography
    is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
    No stories Top 10 Most Read Non-Fiction - Creative Non-Fic
    writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as academic or technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact but is not written to entertain based on prose style. Many writers view creative nonfiction as overlapping with the essay.
    Headstall's Reflections by Headstall Temporary Hold tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete timmy's poetry by Mikiesboy Complete Timmy's Journal by Mikiesboy Complete Boy Story: The Road Taken by Rip Skor Complete Cozy Contemplations by Headstall Long-Term Hold Ravings of a Rabid Werewolf - Poetry by Wolf by WolfM Long-Term Hold One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets by AC Benus Complete Musings of a Messed Up Mind by Mikiesboy Complete Top 4 Most Read Non-Fiction - Letter
    letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [1] The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by large numbers of people, such as newspapers and placards, although even these may include material in the form of an "open letter".
    Vaya con Dios, Carlos by Bill W Complete Azkarah by Defiance19 Complete Dear Carlos by Mikiesboy Complete Random Musings by Bryson Temporary Hold Top 10 Most Read Non-Fiction - Reference
    books in the reference nonfiction genre contain relevant information on a subject and where you can go to learn more about that subject. The books in this genre can be about anything people might need to know about. They can be marketing guides for writers or lists of travel destinations in a country or area – anything where one can list information in an easy to use way to help people find the information on a topic.
    The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus Temporary Hold Translation Trashbin by AC Benus Temporary Hold One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets by AC Benus Complete WL's Mainstream Gay Book Reviews by W_L Long-Term Hold Zero to Hero, a Guide by AC Benus Long-Term Hold Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term Hold Second Sight: Remembering Some San Francisco Neighborhoods by AC Benus Complete June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Long-Term Hold PIERRE and the AMBIGUITIES – A Filmscript by AC Benus Complete Why Research Is Important To Me by Mikiesboy Complete
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    Mystery Deep Dive 5

    By Myr,


    Genre Deep Dives
    Top 1 Most Read Mystery - Amateur Sleuth
    Features characters who are not professional detectives but get involved in solving mysteries due to personal interest or circumstance.
    Bleeding Hearts by Josh Aterovis Complete Top 1 Most Read Mystery - Caper
    Light-hearted mystery that is easy to read, witty and not too intense.  Can also be more comic in nature.  Examples: Clue, Scooby Doo, Hardy Boys, or Janet Evanovitch books
    A Ticklish Thriller (Revised) by Ticklishboy30 Complete Top 4 Most Read Mystery - Classic Mystery
    Often involves a murder in a closed setting like a village or a manor, with the crime solved by an amateur or professional detective by the story's end.
    Murder in Paradise by E K Stokes Complete The Vanishing Act by E K Stokes Complete The Pink Flamingo by E K Stokes Complete The Last Laugh by Celian In Process Top 8 Most Read Mystery - Cozy Mystery
    also referred to as "cozies", are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off stage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.  This is also a sub-genre with strong tropes that define it
    A Holiday Adventure by Ticklishboy30 Complete Murder on the Playground by ObicanDecko Complete A Ticklish Thriller (Revised) by Ticklishboy30 Complete WHISPERS by PhillMakracken Temporary Hold Murder of a Moral Man by St. George Complete A Ticklish Thriller by Ticklishboy30 Abandoned Bellini by Cole Matthews Complete River City by Bill W Complete Top 10 Most Read Mystery - Detective
    stories where the protagonist is a sleuth of some sort, ranging from nosy neighbor to retired detective that is puzzling out the details of why a crime was committed and who did it. More intense than a cozy, more serious than a caper, but not as hard core has hard boiled/noir.   Example: Agatha Christie books
    Kept Boy to Made Man by empath In Process The Black Aura by Lee Wilson Complete Dating Rules And Pretty Fools by Laura S. Fox Complete Keeper of the Rituals by Libby Drew Complete The Jerk-Off by JLynch In Process Murder in Paradise by E K Stokes Complete The Vanishing Act by E K Stokes Complete Murder on the Hudson by chris191070 Complete The Theocracy - The Blackened Cross by ValentineDavis21 Abandoned Who's Afraid of Joe Vincente by chris191070 Complete Top 7 Most Read Mystery - Historical Mystery
    The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a sub-genre of two genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. Raiders of the Lost Ark
    The Exchange Students by paren01 In Process Carême in Brighton — a mystery novel by AC Benus Complete Blades of Ashes by lilansui In Process Here Be Dragons, Charlie Boone! by Geron Kees Complete The House of Storms by Geron Kees Complete Demon Dream by AC Benus Complete MARDI - At the Crossroads of Life and Art - A Film Script by AC Benus Complete Top 10 Most Read Mystery - Light Mystery
    Contains light mystery elements such as crimes to solve, but solving a crime is not the focus of the story.
    Circumnavigation by C James Complete Those Left Behind by Robert Hugill In Process Someone Is Stealing Christmas Wishes, Charlie Boone! by Geron Kees Complete Bearpaw: An Old West Tale by Headstall Complete What brings us together - Part 1 by Paladin In Process Journey Beyond the Sea by Geron Kees Complete Box Shaped Heart by Laura S. Fox Complete Guarded by Wayne Gray Complete The Brotherhood: Awakening Book II by The Writer X In Process Sidewinder by Headstall Complete Top 0 Most Read Mystery - Locked Room Mystery
    A sub-genre where the crime, usually a murder, happens in circumstances where it seems impossible for the perpetrator to have entered or left the scene.
    No stories Top 3 Most Read Mystery - Noir/Hard-Boiled
    (Strong Trope Alert) in noir the protagonist isn't a detective, but a victim, a suspect, and/or a perpetrator of crime. Hard-Boiled is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Detectives of hardboiled fiction are often antiheroes. Notable hardboiled detectives include Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Slam Bradley, and The Continental Op.
    The Theocracy - The Blackened Cross by ValentineDavis21 Abandoned Neon by William King Temporary Hold Scene: An Abandoned Alleyway Leading to a Doorway by Young Sage Complete Top 5 Most Read Mystery - Police Procedural
    is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigation
    The Black Aura by Lee Wilson Complete Jail Cell Love Affair by Lee Wilson Complete Unhappy New Year’s Day by Lee Wilson Complete Solitary by RichEisbrouch Complete River City by Bill W Complete Top 5 Most Read Mystery - Psychological Mystery
     Delves into the mind, exploring themes of sanity, identity, and often includes elements of suspense or thriller.
    Kept Boy to Made Man by empath In Process Seagull's Bay by CasualWanderer82 Complete Murder in Paradise by E K Stokes Complete Hello, Claire Voiance Speaking by Lee Wilson Complete Neon by William King Temporary Hold
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