Two Different Styles Of Poetry Forms To Try Out!
I enjoy trying different poetry formats and almost always go back to rhyme! Is it due to not being a math person?
The comfort challenge with two styles of poetry formats and two examples that bring comfort to me.
"The crux of form poetry is a mathematical pattern of syllables, words, lines, or stanzas — separately or in combination depending on the form.
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Introduced by Phillip Larrea, this contemporary poem is all about the power of three. A simple form, there are no rules about rhyme or meter, the focus is all on the number three." b y Bonnie Davis on Medium
Form:
Each line contains three syllables
Each stanza contains three lines
Each poem contains three stanzas
Example:
Comfort lies
in bee hives
honey gives
Comfort ties
together
a romance
Comfort comes
from water
and nature
Nonet
"Likely a more contemporary version of traditional Japanese poetry, like haiku or tanka, the nonet poetic form has a simple group of nine architecture. There is no direction on subject matter or rule around rhyming, but there is a specific syllable and line count." by Bonnie Davis on Medium .
Form:
9 line poem
Syllable count per line is 9–8–7–6–5–4–3–2–1
Example:
Comfort comes to us in many forms
I love to be comfortable
Living life to the fullest
sa voring all the best
that's on the table
there will be storms
please be kind
and show
love
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*All examples are written by Denise Lindquist
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First published in Mercury Press on Medium
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Denise E Lindquist
I am married with 7 children, 27 grands, and 12 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium weekly.
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Comments (4)
This was amazing!! I learned something new, and your poetry examples were wonderful :) Well done!
Awesome , you would make a great teacher . Thanks for introducing me to different style of poetries. My favorite is the first style in your other poem Teens
Awesome!!! Loving the format and the poems💖💕
Thank you so much for introducing me to these new poetic forms. It takes a lot of discipline and creativity to write something like this. The poems were also beautiful!