#poetic forms

[masked-k]

I just finished a sestina written in iambic pentameter about my dislike for structured poetry and I feel insanely accomplished as a poet.

[ancientroyalblood]

Exploring Poetic Forms: From Sonnets to Free Verse

Poetry is an art form that captivates readers through rhythm, emotion, and vivid language. One of the key elements that distinguishes poetry from prose is its structure, and understanding different poetic forms can help both budding and experienced writers create more impactful poems. Whether you are drawn to the rigid patterns of sonnets or the freedom of free verse, exploring these diverse…

[pebblegalaxy]

Vignettes in Verse: A Journey Through Life's Moments in Japanese Tanka Poetry

Given the word ‘Vignette’, I’ll use the tanka form, which is a bit longer than haiku and allows for more elaboration. Tanka traditionally consists of five lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. I’ll create a sequence of tanka poems to form a longer piece centered around the concept of ‘Vignette’. Here’s the poem: Vignette, a glimpseMoments frozen in time's frameBrief yet poignant…

[kristinawkelly]

Exploring Poetry - Poetic Forms

Kicking off this month's poetry blog is this a post on poetic forms. Guest Mona Mehas talks about three forms with examples from her poetry.

Kicking off this month’s poetry blog, as it is National Poetry Month, is a post on poetic forms. I’m having a guest come and post on my blog each month talking about poetry from the various poetic forms to what poetry means to them. To start, I have Mona Mehas posting today about forms with examples from her poetry. Like me, Mona is also a member of the Poetry Society of Indiana. Her work has…

[martyncrucefix]

New podcast discussion on Between a Drowning Man

I’m very pleased to announce that Mark McGuinness’ excellent poetry podcast, A Mouthful of Air, which has recently featured poets such as Mona Arshi, Judy Brown, Rishi Dastidar, Ian Duhig, Mimi Khalvati, Clare Pollard, Tom Sastry, and Denise Saul, has recorded a discussion about my new Salt collection, Between a Drowning Man. Mark’s method is to focus on one particular poem and between us we…

[keferon]

Drift’s “Dead end” design is my Roman Empire…

Like. His Crystal City look is great. His mtmte look is also great. And the Lost Light one too. But when I look at this specific design eh idk there’s something very special about it. It’s the way he was created by Cybertron if I’m not wrong. I love this colour scheme. It’s so calm and simple.

[slayerdurge]

Gortash & Durge in bed together. Naked. In the dark. Starting at each other.

Gortash looks at Durge and sees a killing machine. All teeth & nails & violence. Consciously created by a god. Made by intelligent design. Measured & planned to achieve a specific purpose. Unholy blood flowing through mortal veins. Efficient. Ordered.

And he says, "You're flawless."

Durge looks at Gortash. Sees his wear & tear. His rougher edges. The marks of a life where nothing was ever handed to him. Where he had to work for every single advantage. The definition of self-made. Will & spite & audacity. Refusal to ever settle. Unrelenting insistence on his own self-worth.

And Durge says, "So are you."

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 187

Clockwork would openly admit that he couldn’t see Danny’s timelines. Not since the moment he stepped into that portal and became something more. A child of Infinity, of the very Realms itself. 

But he’ll also admit that it always meant that the child surprised him all the time. This just happened to be a startling surprise, and an admittedly amusing one, even if Danny was openly complaining about the situation. 

“It’s not fair! You have to be able to fix this, right? Right?!” the ghostling, quite literally now, practically yanked at his cloak. “Clockwork, I was going to graduate, I can’t be two! Please, you’re the master of Time, you can fix this right!?” 

No, no he could not, seeing as young Daniel was in fact, immune to timeline machinations, doubly so for his own. To the ghostling’s open distress, which he did his best to soothe. What he could do instead, was stop time in his home dimension, and instead let him age back up again. 

Which the young halfa wasn’t happy about, but it was the best thing they had, so Clockwork supposed he had a ghostling now. A tiny adorable ghostling who kept pouting each time his much younger body had any sort of effect on his behavior. 

He’d never exactly had a ghostling before, nevermind one who was part human, but he would admit he honestly was enjoying it. Most time was spent alone, something he hadn’t realized until Danny ended up crashing into his unlife. 

Honestly he would openly admit that he absolutely adored his little ghostling. Who was now around four, at least physically, and had gotten into the adorable habit of curling up in the pendulum in his chest. Which was honestly the safest spot in Long Now, he’d admit. 

The singular issue however, with this habit, was that when someone attempted to summon him, they got his ghostling as well. And well, normally he could very much control himself for these summonings that happened every few hundred or so years, but well. There was a reason why even the Observants had stopped popping in the moment they realized he had a ghostling. 

Nesting ghosts do not mess around should they feel one is messing with their very vulnerable child, and really it’s not his fault the mortal cultists woke up and startled Danny. Perhaps deleting them from the timeline was a bit too far, if the other mortals rapid paling was to go by, but oh well. 

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[firstfullmoon]

okay hold on this is so cool. bear with me

1) read this terrance hayes poem

2) read this gwendolyn brooks poem

3) go back to the terrance hayes poem and pay attention to the ends of lines

[neil-perrys-suicidal-tendencies]

जग ने छीना मुझसे, मुझे जो भी लगा प्यारा

The world seized from me,

All that I held beloved

[mirrorball-leclerc]

i genuinely think the funniest thing that could happen was if charles overtook norris in the drivers championship because they’ve been yapping about this “intense” championship battle between norris and max only for charles ‘one-stop wonder’ leclerc to end up p2 in the championship

[tayview]

THE HONEY SCENE OMG 😭😭 can someone pls gif the whole thing?!??? i need to stare at it for infinity

[tapestryundone]

quiet is right handed and always holds the blade in his right hand as a result. he is tied to the narrative that the narrator constructed through the blade and no matter what happens in any runthrough the knife will always end up in his hand at least once no matter what he does or what he truly wants

the princess is always chained by her right hand. no matter what, she is always bound to the cabin and the narrative that the narrator constructs. tsm is represented through countless arms and yet the princes is always placed in a basement with her right hand shackled

both quiet and the princess are trapped in the construct, parallel to one another. the knife is to the long quiet as the chain is to the shifting mound

in the prisoner chapter, if quiet becomes chained then he must lose the knife. there is no purpose to overlapping ones shackles, he just trades one for another

anytime that the princes recieves the knife, she becomes free of her chain. there is no purpose to overlapping ones shackles, she just trades one for another

the knife and shackles are equivalent, and both must be shed in some way for the shifting mound and the long quiet, or the princess and quiet/hero

at the heart of the shifting mound, the princess will always be free. the shifting mound is free to choose anything she wants. shes waiting for you to choose. the apotheosis establishes that she could destroy the construct if she so chose, but if the long quiet doesnt break free with her, destroying the construct will destroy him, too. she is free of her shackle but she has a choice between leaving with the long quiet or killing him- mirroring that the long quiet has a choice between leaving with the shifting mound or killing her. only that the shifting mound made her choice, and that is that no matter what happens, she will not destroy the long quiet

at the heart of the shifting mound, quiet has the choice to take the knife and give into the narrators script- to abide by it or return to its beginning and reread the story all over again- or to abandon his own shackles and free himself from the story the narrator wove

effectively, the chain and the blade must be abadoned in some way for the two to be free. with or without reaching the heart of the shifting mound, neither can be free until the remnants of the construct are abandoned, until their unique tether to the construct is left behind

and if the two are a palindrome, then the letter in the center is the cabin- a structure that exists for both of them and is a construction of the narrator that they both influence differently but in equal amounts. they both have been built around it and feom it, very literally, and the chain and blade are both offshoots of it that the narrator uses to control them

[justice4billiam]

[thedansemacabres]

Now that I return once more, something I have been thinking deeply about with Dionysus—now that the grapes are ripening—is him and the grapevine. One of the beautiful ‘paradoxes’ in mythology is the way he was said to have discovered wine, but then also is the ripening force of the vine—Dionysos Veraison—as I would call him is the one that transmutes the bitter grape acids, tartaric and malic, into sweet sugars.

In order for wine to ferment, veraison must occur. In becoming a wine god, did his red fingertips touch the vine and cause it to bloom, with the cluster falling to the earth, bursting forth, and fermenting into ethanol? Did in discovering wine and creating it did he understand the way the sun and vine vitality creates the conditions necessary? Or if we follow the myth of Ampelos, did his grief make him realise the eternal gift his love’s shorn form now possess?

mythology is truly so fun. Dionysos the winemaker as a man of grief and careful understanding of a natural process—does one become what they do, if they tie themselves to it so closely?