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Poetry Book - 3. National Poetry Month 2017 - Part III - Formal Poetry

National Poetry Month 2017
Part III - Formal Poetry

 



Prompt: Acrostic Poem. Start from your name, the name of a city or a month.
Word: September

Summer’s
End
Pumpkins
Time
Evening
Mists
Bring
Early
Rime

 
 
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Prompt: Number Poem. Base your number poem on a sequence of numbers important to you, a social security number, a zip code, a date written in numerals, a telephone number, lucky numbers. Repeat small numbers. The sequence you choose sets the pattern of syllables for your poem. To get language for your poem, jot down images and scenes that connect with your number: people, faces, actions, scenes. Connect content and form.

A
Dream
Never Come True
A
Life
Changed Forever

 

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Prompt: 5 W (+ h) Poem. Who? What? When? How? Where? Why?
Use the question word in any order you wish.

The prophet
Came
Ere the set of sun
barefoot, alone
Out of nowhere
Seven years have gone by

 

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Prompt: Cinquain. 1 stanza 5 lines, 2-4-6-8-2

Ashes
Ashes, ashes
And dust to dust, we curse
The demon hunters screamed in rage
Their verse

 

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Prompt: Double Dactyl. Double Dactyl poetry is a peculiar, rigid form of poetry. The rhythm -- DAH dah dah -- is called Dactyl, hence the name "Double Dactyl" for this poetry form. A Double Dactyl poem must have eight lines, all but the fourth and eighth have six syllables. The 4th and the 8th lines must have four syllables each and they must rhyme. One of the lines, preferably the sixth, must consist of a single double dactylic word, the more obscure the better.

Songs of Elysium
Playing the tambourine
Praising the Seraphim
Halleluja

Glorious guardians
Celebratorily
Blessing the Cherubim
O Hosanna

 

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Prompt: Pantoum. 4 stanzas, 16 lines, line 5 = line 2, line 7 = line 5, line 9 = line 6, line 11 = line 8, Lines 13 to 16 come from the three previous stanzas

Bare lay the land
The rivers ran dry
Rain did not fall
No cloud in the sky

The rivers ran dry
Seven years went by
No cloud in the sky
The time draws nigh

Seven years went by
Withered the trees
The time draws nigh
Fulfilled prophecy

The rivers ran dry
No cloud in the sky
Withered the trees
Fulfilled prophecy

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Prompt: Bergerette. 1 nonet made of 3 tercets, rhyme scheme aabaabaab, syllables 5-5-2

Seven years went by
No cloud in the sky
Foretold
The rivers ran dry
The people did die
Tenfold
Now the time draws nigh
On the Lord rely
Behold

 
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Prompt: Rondeau simple. 8 lines. ABaAabAB

Fulfilled His word; the time draws nigh
Praise God, the Lord, your shield and sun
Behold your fate. Seven years went by
Fulfilled His word; the time draws nigh
Behold your fate. Seven years went by
Praise God the Lord. His will be done
Fulfilled His word; the time draws nigh
Praise God, the Lord, your shield and sun

 

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Prompt: Villanelle. 19 lines. 5 tercets followed by 1 quatrain. A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2 abA1A2

Behold your fate. Seven years went by
Praise God, the Lord, your shield and sun
Fulfilled His word; the time draws nigh
Rain did not fall, no cloud in the sky
Rain did not fall and salvation not come
Behold your fate. Seven years went by
Bare lay the land and the rivers ran dry
The men cried for mercy, but there was none
Fulfilled His word; the time draws nigh
Withered the trees and the cattle did die
Period of the drought under a blazing sun
Behold your fate. Seven years went by
Behold your fate. On the Lord rely
Praise God the Lord. His will be done
Fulfilled His word; the time draws nigh
True to his word, God won’t belie
Bless God, the Lord, the Holy One
Behold your fate. Seven years went by
Fulfilled His word; the time draws nigh

 

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Prompt: Sonnet. The basic meter of all sonnets in English is iambic pentameter. The English sonnet consists of 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and a couplet: abab cdcd efef gg

The rivers ran dry, the land parched, behold
Rain did not fall, not a cloud in the sky
The period of drought, the prophet has told
Will come to an end as the time draws nigh

Withered the trees and the cattle does die
Withered your lives under the blazing sun
Behold your fate. Seven years have gone by
Fulfilled the prophecy; the time has come

Bless God, the Lord, who has mercy on you
Praise God, the Lord, who is your shield and sun
Nothing compared to what Lot had to do
Your trust in God will carry a yield

The waters of life will nourish the tree
The tree of life will bear rich fruit for thee

 

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Dolores Esteban
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I agree with aditus.  I particularly liked "September" and the "ashes ashes" poems.  The second one also conveyed a lot with few words.  I'm very impressed with how you played with the same poem in different forms.  They all work quite well in their own way.  Nicely done and thanks for participating.  See you next April! :) 

Dolores Esteban
44 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

I agree with aditus.  I particularly liked "September" and the "ashes ashes" poems.  The second one also conveyed a lot with few words.  I'm very impressed with how you played with the same poem in different forms.  They all work quite well in their own way.  Nicely done and thanks for participating.  See you next April! :) 

 

Thank you, Val. I'm glad you like my poems. And many thanks for posting the NaPoWriMo thread. It stopped me from giving up. :)

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