Alaeha Posted May 3, 2003 Report Posted May 3, 2003 If you're interested, of course. Let's make this one simple... Write two quatrains. The Rhyme Scheme for that would be ABAB CDCD or ABBA CDDC (or some combination of the two styles... It doesn't matter. ABAB is more common, though, and seems to flow better for the most part) Whether you write with a Meter is optional. It can be a Clerihew (Quatrain with no rhythm) if you'd like. A- A poem is not something easily made B- if you lack skill, or can't find the words A- to express what you think. Then, it's not even paid B- well enough to get meals for the birds! C- But if you have the talent or practice to write D- one that flows and still tugs at the strings C- of the hearts of your readers, you've done something right. D- For a time, your soul will fly on wings. I apologize for this... it's not really that good, but it's an example I put together on the fly. (My English Teacher needs to stop assigning us Sonnets and other such things that are written in Iambic Pentameter... It screws me up when I try to write in Anapests)
Salinye Posted May 4, 2003 Report Posted May 4, 2003 (edited) Sorry I did three instead of two, is that alright? As Cool As I Am (Inspired by someone's bio) As cool as I am, you don't see or ask. Who I am is real, but that's beyond you. I won't conform or imitate your mask, Or bow down in worship-one of your crew. As cool as I am, you're judge and jury. You take one look and condemn without trial. You'd rather knock me down in your fury. Then walk away with a sadistic smile. In the end you may find out much too late, The best things in life and from where they stem. Right now it's hard- I wouldn't trade my plate. I've known all along, as cool as I am. Edited May 4, 2003 by Salinye
Alaeha Posted May 4, 2003 Author Report Posted May 4, 2003 Looks good! (Don't worry about the extra one... I'd only said two because you can't really get to be any good at something if you only write one. And besides... the hard part is writing the first unit. The first line in any given rhythm, the first stanza with a certain rhyme scheme, etc.)
Ayshela Posted May 4, 2003 Report Posted May 4, 2003 "I'm moving" you said when i came down to visit. i heard you, and my heart stopped in place. i stood frozen as tears rolled down my face thinking, "it's not the end of the world, or is it?" Will the last time you understand be today? Will my written words tell you what i feel? Will your written words help my heart to heal? Can they, from three thousand miles away? (With apologies, this is totally on the fly)
Psimon Posted May 5, 2003 Report Posted May 5, 2003 Breathe ***************** Take moment from your busy world pause, gaze at leaden sky Watch the clouds go 'cross and swirl stretch forth before your eye Rest a while beneath the trees wonderous ages they have seen And lay awhile upon the leaves breathe in the life so clean (I need at least a C for this assignment to pass this semester... Please, please, please... ) BTW... At last! A happy poem! Yay!!
WrenWind Posted May 5, 2003 Report Posted May 5, 2003 Moments in Time ****************************** Kids in the streat playing ball Take a picture freeze this frame The sun is shining on them all For tomorrow all's gone,such a shame Later in our olden haze Take out the pictures Stare at them with faded gaze Till memories become fixtures
Cheyenne Posted May 5, 2003 Report Posted May 5, 2003 This started out as a roller coaster thingy...It didn't end up that way....ah well, back to the drawing board.... Up the hill we went so fast Flying like the wind we were I screamed as you we passed To me it was all a blur I couldn’t catch my breath And didn’t want it to end As at the bottom of the cliff was death Waiting for my soul to bend
Peredhil Posted May 5, 2003 Report Posted May 5, 2003 How to write to such an assignment I'm really at a loss. Creativity within confinement? But Alaeha is the boss. On the other hand I'm really stuck In trying to find a rhyme, I guess this time I'm out of luck - I'll try again sometime...
Ayshela Posted May 5, 2003 Report Posted May 5, 2003 *giggle* clever, Peredhil. however WILL you manage it? i just don't know...
Alaeha Posted May 5, 2003 Author Report Posted May 5, 2003 *Laughs* I like that! I do apologize, though, if I was out of place in issuing the challenge/assignment thingy. *Shudders* I abhor the idea of being a "boss" though... I'd much rather not have to order anyone else around, and not be ordered around myself... Alas, real life interferes.
Quincunx Posted May 6, 2003 Report Posted May 6, 2003 I learned that names were murder and that friends were more than blind, That justice of the civilized was lost upon your kind. So I arrayed the arms of self about you, charged to learn The foul primeval magic that would force a tongue to burn. And then the center of the cross, with words like hammers, spoke Your name, which named a patron saint of ferrymen. You choke. You windmill arms around the room, you stare; you're left alone. You'll be relieved of sodden lungs when cleaved upon the stone.
Wyvern Posted May 8, 2003 Report Posted May 8, 2003 Alaeha started by setting the scene, giving good examples Salinye followed with boasting bonanzas Ayshela was next, creating her own witty samples Psimon formed his own positive stanzas Wrenwind forged some nostalgic verses about time Cheye's energetic poem was tragic Pered's spoke of his 'block as if it were crime Quin's was based upon murder and magic Excellent work so far, everyone.
Regel Posted October 4, 2003 Report Posted October 4, 2003 Young Lions Four young friends poised against a stonewall A portrait of pride in those eyes a gleam of defiance. Frozen moment in time when they were still young and tall. It remains a black and white tribute to four young lion’s alliance. Their country and families they would leave behind For remaining would leave them all poor. Such urgency that smiles on those faces were hard to find Was it their fortune they would find they weren’t sure?
Sorciere Posted October 4, 2003 Report Posted October 4, 2003 (edited) About this rhyme I've thought so long The rhythms I have pondered Now all at once the lines have gone Verse one entirely squandered Verse two will be my saving grace The pattern holds intact Ack! yet again I've filled the space Useless, yes, a fact! Edited October 4, 2003 by Sorciere
Alaeha Posted October 4, 2003 Author Report Posted October 4, 2003 *Laughs* That sounds almost like the Triolet I wrote that was entirely about how to write a Triolet...
Zariah Posted October 6, 2003 Report Posted October 6, 2003 Sometimes I feel like flying South; Chilled Winter draws so near. A breeze blows in my trembling mouth; My cold eyes shed a tear. I pull my jacket 'round my neck, With no scarf to keep me warm. A soft touch from my lover's peck, Insures I'm in no harm.
Nyyark Posted October 6, 2003 Report Posted October 6, 2003 The happy melons sing away A crack spreads across the dry earth Kings jester killed without mirth A blue invite slip to play Three things with meaning The smell of cold air The feel of her hair The sight of a mantis preening (This is mostly nonsense, does it count?)
Alaeha Posted October 6, 2003 Author Report Posted October 6, 2003 It rhymes... It fits the rhyme scheme... so I guess that it depends on what you wanted to get out of the exercise. So long as it fulfills the minimal requirements (the rhyme scheme is used, there's some sort of meter to it) then it's up to you as to whether or not more is required. For what it's worth... I thought it was interesting in a random, nonsensical sort of way. Not sure whether it's a poem or not... but it was interesting and mildly amusing one way or the other.
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