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Staff Picks for September 2009
This month's staff picks celebrate poetry, poets and a few poetry forms.
The first form of poetry this month is SONNET. "A sonnet sequence is a seies of sonnets in which there is a discernable unifying theme, while each one retains its own structural independence. It consists of fourteen lines of five-foot iambic verse."
The Scent and Sense Of You (Shakespearean Sonnet)
by easyeverett
Our passion pulls with power surges new
While earthy musk released perfumes the air;
So close I smell the scent and sense of you
Conjoined in need to breathe a common air.
Each thought of you ignites the fire of soul
Without control--I'll taste the ancient ways
With you again until our love is whole;
In love we will make love for all our days.
My blood boils hot--my body soon must burst
When nerves affirm impassioned equal need?
Our throats dehydrate parched from lustful thirst
And we feel now compelled to quell love's greed.
Your musky scent does saturate my skin
As we take love to where love's never been.
The second form is a TERZA RIMA. "It is a verse form consisting of tercets, usually in iambic pentameter in English poetry, with a chain or interlocking rhyme scheme, as: aba, bcb, cdc, etc."
Keeper of the Grounds
by Huberjack
Just yesterday he made giraffes,
a dragonfly and circus clowns;
he loves the way each tourist laughs.
The clever keeper of the grounds
creates his topiary art;
a lifetime here, he still astounds.
Today his cannons will impart
reminders of the battles past,
of conquests made with grit and heart.
His garden actors will be cast
in parts portrayed in pinks and greens
by shrubs and flora holding fast.
One walks along organic scenes-
imagination intervenes.
The third form is a PALINDROME. "A Palindrome a word, verse, or sentence in which the sequence of letters is the same forward and backward."
confessions- a palindrome
by lash570
It is noon - sit I ,
still it's
never even;
as time emits a
devil- sin is lived
The next form is an ECHO VERSE. "This is a form of poem in which a word or two at the end of a line appears as an echo constituting the entire following line. The echo, either the same word or syllable or a homophone, often changes the meaning in a flippant, cynical or punning response."
Pre-Wedding Jitters: A Chat with Cupid [ECHO VERSE]
by bfaulkner
Pre-Wedding Jitters: A Chat with Cupid
When will he come, this knight?
This night.
Who will walk me down the aisle?
I'll.
How will we help our guests who ail?
Ale.
And what shall we call the band?
The Banned.
Who shall sing the hymn?
Him.
Why does he love me, my beau?
My bow.
What if, when saying our vows, my voice does break?
Brake.
What if he sees me in my dress and says, "You've grown."
Groan!
How will I know if he's slept with a guest?
With a guess.
What if my eyes flood like a broken dam?
Damn!
How shall I spend my days?
Dazed.
What if he tries to oppress me?
Oh, press me!
What if, before honeymoon sex, he faints?
He feints.
What if, in his love for me, he is faux?
He is foe!
Will I be his heroine?
His heroin.
How long will last this marriage, ours?
Hours.
"A LENTO consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe as the second and forth lines of each stanza must rhyme. All the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme."
Sun (Lento)
by nerdgirl
Bright are the striking rays of the sun
Night falls makes the world dimmer
sight to see for everyone
Light comes back, with heat that makes us simmer
Beware of the summers heat
Dare to look straight into its rays
Stare at the clouds' shapes so neat
Care about the earth and its beautiful ways
The next form is PLEIADES. "A Pleiades has a one-word title and each of its seven lines begins with the same letter as the first letter in the title."
Morgen (a Pleiades)
by Zbird
Many times I’ve read your line
morgen, morgen nur nicht heute
my eyes fill with tears and
my heart breaks again for there will be no
morgen, no tomorrow, for you. No
more time to finish the web page.
Maybe you should have finished it that day.
The last form is a PARADELLE. "The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms. It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and sixth lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only those words."
Paradelle For Billy Collins
by HSTeech
What would a French poet think,
what would a French poet think,
one who was in love, I mean,
one who was in love, I mean,
What? I think a poet who was mean
would love one in French!
Of me, a woman not in love,
of me a woman not in love,
putting my hand all over this form?
putting my hand all over this form?
in my woman hand, putting a love of form
not this, all over me.
Probing to feel what it was like,
probing to feel what it was like
to profess, in paradelle, his passion,
to profess, in paradelle, his passion
Like to feel his paradelle? It was
probing in passion, what to profess!
Who me, a poet?
I profess to love probing in French passion!
What woman would not love it all over?
What a form to feel in!
Putting my think in his hand was like...
This was one mean paradelle!
And a fitting blog from sapphicmuse to end this month's staff picks.
The true poetic experience by sapphicmuse
For the life of me, I cannot understand why some people think that their poetic soul can live off of flowers and sunsets.
The world of poetry has so much to offer, and it is a buffet of literary styles that you simply cannot pick and choose from if you consider yourself a true afficionado of poetry.
You have to reach down to the depths of the soul with Sylvia Plath.
You have to go down to hell with Arthur Rimbaud.
You have to explore your passion with Natasha Trethewey.
You have to empty yourself like Allen Ginsberg.
You must 'take it all in' with Charles Simic.
You must grieve with Emily Dickinson.
You must experience America with Joyce Carol Oates.
You must worship at the feet of feminism with Margaret Atwood.
You've got to die with John Keats.
You've got to live with Stanley Kunitz.
You've got to find clarity with John Ashbery.
You've got to lose your mind with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
This is what it means to be alive.
Submitted by mamta on Saturday, September 05, 2009 (09:29:26) (854 reads)
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by mamta on Saturday, September 05, 2009 (05:55:09) |
Congratulations all.
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by realrhoda on Saturday, September 05, 2009 (07:34:20) |
Wow, great and interesting picks!! Congratulations to all!
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by angeroseblue on Saturday, September 05, 2009 (10:36:24) |
congratulations to all.... 
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by bfaulkner on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 (11:54:12) |
Congratulations to all of you! I look forward to trying out all of your forms. Thank you for the honor.
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Well done to all from Oz!!!!!!!!!!!! keep those words flowing!!!!! 
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