Recognition for New Poets

[Jennifer C]

Cinquain:

Cinquain poems are five lines long with a certain number of syllables or words in each. Cinquain poems do not rhyme. There are many ways to write cinquain poems. Here is an example of one cinquain pattern.

Line 1: Title - one word or two syllables
Line 2: Description or example of the title - 2 words or four syllables
Line 3: Action about the title - a 3 word phrase or six syllables
Line 4: a 4 word phrase describing a feeling about the title or 8 syllables
Line 5: Synonym for the title - one word - 2 syllables

Line 1: Panther

Line 2: Sleek, graceful
Line 3: Running, hiding, emerging
Line 4: Happy to be free
Line 5: Cat

 

[My Erotic Tale]

I have been making an extra effort to read at least two or three new names while reading the poems and they are almost always very appreciative of any comments left. It is hard to be a new poet here, I still try to encourage a few that catch my eye. There are a lot of poems that seem to never get comments and those I target...<grin> thanks JC for all that you do.

 

[Jennifer C]

I have been making an extra effort to read at least two or three new names while reading the poems and they are almost always very appreciative of any comments left. It is hard to be a new poet here, I still try to encourage a few that catch my eye. There are a lot of poems that seem to never get comments and those I target...<grin> thanks JC for all that you do.

Thank you Art ~

I try to encourage all I can and help new poets to settle in here. I try and read and comment as much as I can, the smallest talent can be nutured into something great.

I gets lots of emails from new poets thanking me for commenting on their work and encouraging them ~ I always tell them the same thing...

It's my pleasure.

Thank you kind friend ~

 

[Jennifer C]

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[My Erotic Tale]

am I the only one who likes odes or ballads? <grin?

what type poetry do you like?

 

[RhymeFairy]

am I the only one who likes odes or ballads? <grin?

what type poetry do you like?

As you can prob tell. I love rhyme and freestyle.
I am still learning so much about the other forms.
Still have so much to learn. Think we seem
to * stick * to what we are comfy with
and what we are used to.
The thing is:

Stagnancy.

One must remember ~
Think outside the box ~!!

 

[Artificial_I]

thanks!

I went on literotica to share my work and get some feedbacks . . . Thank you for your encouragement.

 

[Jennifer C]

Welcome to Literotica

I went on literotica to share my work and get some feedbacks . . . Thank you for your encouragement.

My pleasure Artificial...

Pls feel free to post any of your work here, i'd love to read it.

Welcome to the threads I look forward to seeing ya around and reading your work...

 

[Jennifer C]

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[Jennifer C]

Ballads

Ballads are poems that tell a story. They are considered to be a form of narrative poetry. They are often used in songs and have a very musical quality to them.

The basic form for ballads is iambic heptameter (seven sets of unstressed, stressed sylables per line), in sets of four, with the second and fourth lines rhyming. Feel free to experiment, but remember, it should have a smooth, song-like sound when you speak it aloud.

Here is an example:

I'll tell a tale, a thrilling tale of love beyond compare
I knew a lad not long ago more gorgeous than any I've seen.
And in his eyes I found my self a'falling in love with the swain.
Oh, the glorious fellow I met by the ocean with eyes of deep-sea green!

He was a rugged sailor man with eyes of deep-sea green,
And I a maid, a tavern maid! Whose living was serving beer.
So with a kiss and with a wave, off on his boat he sailed
And left me on the dock, the theif! Without my heart, oh dear!

And with a heart that's lost at sea, I go on living still.
I still am now still serving beer in that tavern by the sea.
And though the pay check's still the same, the money won't go as far
For now I feed not just myself, but my little one and me!

So let that be a lesson, dear, and keep your heart safely hid.
I gave mine to a sailing thief with gorgeous eyes of green.
Save yours for a sweeter lad who makes the land his home.
Ah me! If only I'd never met that sailor by the sea!
-- Lonnie Adrift

Notice how "seen" and "green" in the first paragraph rhyme? This rhyming pattern, called abcb, is continued throughout the poem. "a" stands for one line ending, "b" for another, and "c" for another still. Because there are 2 "b"'s, they are the two lines that rhyme. Note also, that it does not stay strictly to the iambic heptameter, this only fits if you speed up and blend some of the words, which also adds to the flow of it.

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[LeBroz]

Thank you Art ~

I try to encourage all I can and help new poets to settle in here. I try and read and comment as much as I can, the smallest talent can be nutured into something great.

I gets lots of emails from new poets thanking me for commenting on their work and encouraging them ~ I always tell them the same thing...

It's my pleasure.

Thank you kind friend ~

Hey Jenn,

Your're exactly right. I often go to the bio page and try to craft my words more carefully if I see it's a newbie. They took a risk & the plunge - don't want the waters to be too cold. And to be even fairer, will send a note direct to let them know they're appreciated.

And thanks for all the tips, links, and insights you offer on poetry - I feel like I'm back in school again.

Here, teach

 

[Jennifer C]

Hey Jenn,

Your're exactly right. I often go to the bio page and try to craft my words more carefully if I see it's a newbie. They took a risk & the plunge - don't want the waters to be too cold. And to be even fairer, will send a note direct to let them know they're appreciated.

And thanks for all the tips, links, and insights you offer on poetry - I feel like I'm back in school again.

Here, teach

Hey Leon,

Careful people will start to think your the teachers pet!...lol...

I have noticed that you have been commenting alot and that is great! I thank you for all your comments on my work and others. I have been so busy lately I havent been commenting as much as I would like ~ Thanks for carrying the torch.

 

[Jennifer C]

The Ode

An ode is a poem that is written for an occasion or on a particular subject. They are usually dignified and more serious as a form than other forms of poetry. Unfortunatly, today's society has distinctly less respect for propriety, morality, and dignity. Modern odes include sarcastic poems about various subjects, including velcro and vegetables. There are several versions and differing opinions on what the rhyme form for an ode should be. In light of these disputes, Tangerine! is of the opinion that we believe them to be simply a poem that contains some form of rhyming pattern which is about a certain subject and contains the word "ode" in the title. Some restrictions are sure to apply.

An example of an ode would be:

Ode to Myself

Just as Walt Whitman would say,
if he were with me today.....
There is a "Song of Myself",
A song that sings of my internal wealth.
A child of God, and also
able to make a friend out of every foe.
For I have true love inside
Any egotisms have surely died.
The beautiful song that strives to be heard
this song is clearer than any songbird.
There is no reason to feel pity
for my God and his love is always with me.
And I will try to learn as much as I should,
knowing that there are no problems,
just oppurtunities to be good.


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[Jennifer C]

Blank Verse

Blank verse is a form of poetry, obviously. What sets it apart from all the other forms is the fact that blank verse does not rhyme.The meter is usually iambic (a pattern of unstressed syllables followed by stressed), and pentameter ( a line consisting of five feet).

A line of blank verse would go like this:

(Imagine that the "da" is stressed and the "la" is unstressed, and each "la da" equals one foot)

la da la da la da la da la da

or

I watch the rolling hills fly by my eyes




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[Jennifer C]

Free Verse

The wonderful, wonderful thing about free verse, is that it has very few distinct rules or boundries. It is similar to blank poetry in that it does not rhyme, but unlike blank verse, it is not written in iambic pentameter. The rhythm or cadence of free verse varies throughout the poem. Though the words don't rhyme, they flow along their own uneven pattern. Definitely a poetry form for one who likes to march to the beat of a different drummer!

For example:

Running through a field of clover,
Stop to pick a daffodil
I play he loves me, loves me not,
The daffy lies, it says he does not love me!
Well, what use a daffy
When Jimmy gives me roses?
-- Flora Launa



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[Jennifer C]

Narrative Poems

Narrative poetry is one of the simplest forms, because there is only one basic rule: the poem must tell a story. A ballad is a narrative poem that has a musical rhythm and can be sung. Narrative poems can be funny, sad, or solemn. They can be almost anything! Play with them!

Here's an example of one with a funny moral:

The Merfolk:

Dashing, splashing, through the foam
Out upon the sea we roamed
Playing with our dolphin friends,
But now we live in a dark which never ends.

Down beneath the surface is an undiscovered land,
One that hasn't yet been marred by cruel human hands
Once we too basked in the sun's sweet, loving light --
But now our world is a dark, eternal night.

Mortals cruel with dreams of gold
Came to steal our relics old
Our Golden City they would harm,
So Atlantis sank with help from a charm.

And we the people of our city fair,
Now live with green, once-golden hair.
We who with golden legs once swam
Now swim with tails adorned with clams.

And becuase of this cruel joke of fate,
We have now learned of human "hate."
We miss the sun and golden sand,
We miss our joyful, innocent land.

And hate, human's hate, ironically,
From which we hid beneath the sea,
Has struch us hard, an awful blow
Becuase we feared it, this we know.

So fear not hate; when you do, it wins
And you might end up like us, with fins.
So keep your love and joy and trust
'Cause if you love your feet, you must!
-- Ariana Thompson




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[Jennifer C]

The Dramatic Monologue

A dramatic monologue is a combination of the words dramatic and monologue (obviously). The "dramatic" says that it could be acted out, and is a form of drama, while the "monologue" defines it as a speech that one person makes, either to themself or to another. A dramatic monologue is written to reveal both the situation at hand and the character herself.

Here is a short one written by an Unknown, Anna Cormorant

Why am I standing here, alone,
When outside you are knocking, knocking?
I cannot come to you-
My feet are glued to the floor.
Forgive me, but I feared you!
Would that you could open the door,
But I have locked it!
Ah! What sorrow I have brought upon myself!
How you shout, how you plead for entrance
And how I want you to enter,
But you have not the strenth to break the door.
Well, come on then! Find another way in!





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[Jennifer C]

Limericks

A limerick is a very structured poem that can be catagorized as "short but sweet." They are usually humerous, and are composed of 5 lines, in an aacca rhyming pattern.

In addition, the first, second and fifth lines are usually 3 anapestic feet (uu/, 2 unstressed followed by 1 stressed) each. The third and fourth lines are usually 2 anapestic feet.

An average limerick would be similar to this:

There once was a princess named Rose,
And where she is now, no one knows.
It is rumored she fled,
Or at least, so it's said,
From a prince with a very long nose.
-- Prinny Running


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[Jennifer C]

The Villanelle

A villanelle is composed of for stanzas, beginning with five three line stanzas, and ending with one four line stanza. There are only two rhymes in the usual villanelle, placed stratgetically in the poem. One of the most noted of these that is a splendid example is one by Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!


Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.


Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!




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[Jennifer C]

In honour of Carrie's New Poem ~


The Sestina

A sestina is a difficult form of poetry to master. It is made up of seven stanzas, the first six of which have six lines, the seventh having only three. There is a very exact and complicated pattern to the sestina's stanzas:

The first stanza is the defining stanza, and the six words that are used to end each line are the defining words, as they will be repeated throughout the rest of the poem.

The second stanza is made by taking the six words that were used to end the last six lines and using them in a certain order: the last word used will now end the first line of this stanza; the first word used will now end the second line of this stanza; the second to last, the third: the second, the fourth; the third to last, the fifth, the third, the sixth.

For each new stanza of the first six, the same pattern is continued by using the previous stanza. For the last (seventh) stanza, there are only three lines, using the last three ending words, and then having the other three inside each line.

Example: for this, each letter represents the ending word of a line:

a b c d e f (first stanza)
f a e b d c (second stanza)
c f d a b e (third stanza)
e c b f a d (fourth stanza)
d e a c f b (fifth stanza)
b d f e c a (sixth stanza)
a d (1st line of the 7th stanza, "a" must be in the line, but the line must end with "d")
b e (2nd line of the 7th stanza, "b" must be in the line, but the line must end with "e")
c f (3rd line of the 7th stanza, "c" must be in the line, but the line must end with "f")

The last stanza is under much dispute, and is often written differently, but the one we have shown is the most common. Also, a neat variation is to vary the words in the same way, only instead of it being the ending words, having it be the first words of each line!



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[My Erotic Tale]

I find it curious,

so many making threads to critic poems as of late,
I still as with this thread wonder why those who seem to know poetry doen't teach it but instead want to disect poems..I still have yet to see a thread wexplain style, meter, rythym, grammar and structure. I have seen limerick and sonnet explanations (ang, wicked and the fool) do we have to tear a poem to shreads to learn?

I tend to make 4 line poems///is there a name for this...
basic poetry . com doesnt go into this type of detail..so where do we go to learn various styles and structure? what is a poem that is 3 lines in each stanza the first and the third ryhme?...I will pursue this question even longer...again...and ....again <grin>

 

[My Erotic Tale]

kind of hard to get recognition for new poets when the reviewers say there are no poems worth mentioning....and then mention one just cause they felt they should? The old days reviewers left comments on every poem rather it was mentioned or not, now that a few of the pomus poets society is doing reviews new poets will not stand a chance to read unless they write a guess what I am writing poem... if every reviewer read every poem and comment ...mention or not, every poem would have at least one comment, I read a poem yesterday that was good and no comments and not even aknowledged by the reviewer of course you might have to be gay to get his attention but I feel some have their nose to far in the air to read...I put this rant here for the new poets, I for one try and encourage and inspire so that those who ridicule and bash the grammar wont run to many more off, this is not an elite poets forum but an amature poem site with porno being the draw string, those whop want to do a work shop and disect poems should go to a workshop forum. But they are not good enough for thos tuff sites so they dabble here <grin> extend a hand and help them up from their soap box <grin> and my final rant, please go and comment on new poets and encourage them to post at the forums so we can tell which is a new name from the old PPS and which are new faces....I am working on it <grin>

 

[My Erotic Tale]

we each create our own style and close similarities are defined by each poets charactor and spice left in the write. Although common styles are used by many versatility is a defining trademark.

 

[LeBroz]

kind of hard to get recognition for new poets when the reviewers say there are no poems worth mentioning....and then mention one just cause they felt they should? The old days reviewers left comments on every poem rather it was mentioned or not, now that a few of the pomus poets society is doing reviews new poets will not stand a chance to read unless they write a guess what I am writing poem... if every reviewer read every poem and comment ...mention or not, every poem would have at least one comment, I read a poem yesterday that was good and no comments and not even aknowledged by the reviewer of course you might have to be gay to get his attention but I feel some have their nose to far in the air to read...I put this rant here for the new poets, I for one try and encourage and inspire so that those who ridicule and bash the grammar wont run to many more off, this is not an elite poets forum but an amature poem site with porno being the draw string, those whop want to do a work shop and disect poems should go to a workshop forum. But they are not good enough for thos tuff sites so they dabble here <grin> extend a hand and help them up from their soap box <grin> and my final rant, please go and comment on new poets and encourage them to post at the forums so we can tell which is a new name from the old PPS and which are new faces....I am working on it <grin>

Well writ, sir;

When I get on this site first thing in the morning, I look to see which favs have posted - just to inspire. Then I go straight down the list and offer pc's for whomever. Sometimes, direct feedback to the author. If it's a newbie, I try (I really do) to offer encouragement, but I'm not as good at this as JC. So if it's a newbie and he doesn't connect or inspire, I'll move on. Same with an established contributor - I figure, in any case, there's bound to be a volunteer or two who will happily step up and tell the poet all about his shortcomings and inadequacies - and for these ever critical souls I reserve -- pity. Being filled with such vile contempt for us lesser mortals is so saddening.

Enough depressing talk - there's still a whole universe out there teeming with real importance and life.

 

[My Erotic Tale]

thanks for the input leon

I always liked eves comments she would tell you toyr poem sucked in the nicest way (so many words) where others come right out and express their superiority in literature in a snobbish manner. I can fix all the personality problems these people have but I can lean towards them and let them know there is an encouraging lot here to balance the over critical workshop types. I try to read all the poems and like yesterday I was glad I did cause I know a lot of gem poems slip un noticed. A ll I can do is try and rally others to extend a hand of kindness to new poets

Well writ, sir;

When I get on this site first thing in the morning, I look to see which favs have posted - just to inspire. Then I go straight down the list and offer pc's for whomever. Sometimes, direct feedback to the author. If it's a newbie, I try (I really do) to offer encouragement, but I'm not as good at this as JC. So if it's a newbie and he doesn't connect or inspire, I'll move on. Same with an established contributor - I figure, in any case, there's bound to be a volunteer or two who will happily step up and tell the poet all about his shortcomings and inadequacies - and for these ever critical souls I reserve -- pity. Being filled with such vile contempt for us lesser mortals is so saddening.

Enough depressing talk - there's still a whole universe out there teeming with real importance and life.