When we ran askew in tired frocks There wasn’t fine work but lot to do We ne’er let hands of grandpa clock Turn weary or wind down and rue. We barely put our legs in shoes, Jumped gladly o’er
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The cold trigger pressing against my chest paralysed me. My breath screamed in my lungs to be set free. I tried to ignore it and looked at Marc. His steely silence was too much to bear. I gasped
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March 8th, 1915 She woke up to the pale-gold early Spring rays framing her face. The tunes of zephyr streaming into her room filled her with rare excitement. Finally, the day has arrived. So, this is going to
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Fox Septet is a 13-line poem. Here are the rules to craft this poetic form. 13 line, 1 stanza The lines must be non-rhyming First line and the last line have to be identical Syllable count: 3 5 7 9
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Lai is a French form and has the following features: 9 line, one stanza This style follows the following rhyme scheme: a a b a a b a a b All a lines have 5 syllables; all b lines have 2 syllables. Here’s my
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Ekphrastic poetry is a verbal description of visual art. Using vivid imagery, these poems interpret, reflect, imagine, and ‘speak out’ the story behind the art through deep observation. This poem is a humble attempt to describe the scene. ART CHOSEN
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My fingernails dug into my palms but I felt no pain. The grey clouds thundered a warning and closed in to stop my retreating limbs, in vain. I dragged my weathered suitcase down the clean cobblestone driveway, each step slow
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A reverse poem is a poem written in such a way that two opposite meanings can be drawn from the text, depending on whether you read the poem line by line from the top-down, or the bottom-up. For example: 1.
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Blackout poetry is a form of found poetry where the poet takes a text and removes words from it, creating a new text through this act of destruction. It can be done to any text: children’s books, paperbacks, academic papers,
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The tautogram is best explained by its Greek root words of “tauto” meaning “the same” and “gramma” meaning “letter.” Basically, all words in the poem begin with the same letter. Here’s my poem on this poetic style: Whispering winding woods
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