For the last challenges I wrote a different form poem for each prompt. So now I am challenging each of you to write a form poem using one of the forms I used previously. Your choices are Kyrielle, Lento, Cascade Verse, pantoum or cinquain. BUT you cannot use a form you have used a lot in the past but really challenge yourself by using a form you have never tried. If you have used all the forms I have posted then go to one of the sites listing poetry forms such as http://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/glossary-terms?gclid=CjwKEAjw7qi7BRCvsr3N58GvsTkSJAA3UzLvdjoK2Jj3Bq8-mEsvPYM3Ps_O9A6e8C7S19P85x9ERBoCjEHw_wcB and choose a form that is new to you. Have fun!
Since I am asking all of you to step outside your comfort zone I figured I owed it to you to do the same, so I chose a form with which I am not at all comfortable. This is called Blitz poetry and it isn't as easy as it looks!
ReplyDeleteHere are the rules:
Line 1 should be one short phrase or image (like “build a boat”)
Line 2 should be another short phrase or image using the same first word as the first word in Line 1 (something like “build a house”)
Lines 3 and 4 should be short phrases or images using the last word of Line 2 as their first words (so Line 3 might be “house for sale” and Line 4 might be “house for rent”)
Lines 5 and 6 should be short phrases or images using the last word of Line 4 as their first words, and so on until you’ve made it through 48 lines
Line 49 should be the last word of Line 48
Line 50 should be the last word of Line 47
The title of the poem should be three words long and follow this format: (first word of Line 3) (preposition or conjunction) (first word of line 47)
There should be no punctuation
Story About Control - a Blitz Poem
write a poem
write a story
story teller
story time
time to run
time to die
die alone
die for love
love survives
love conquers all
all is fair in love and war
all is not lost
lost children cry in vain
lost to the world forever
forever young
forever yours
yours to keep or toss
yours to own or lose
lose to cheaters
lose to haters
haters rule the world
haters own your heart
heart breaks
heart weeps
weeps for the lost
weeps for abandoned children
children of the darkness
children beneath the blue
blue waters drown sorrows
blue skies hide secrets
secrets of forgotten souls
secrets of those who strayed
strayed from compassionate arms
strayed from hearth and home
home sweet home
home is family
family time
family love
love conquers all
love is all we need
need to survive
need to say goodbye
goodbye to passion
goodbye world
world without end
world out of control
control yourself
control time
time
yourself
Wow!!! Blitz poem huh? Well it certainly must have been a real challenge! A lot of imagery and passion in it and I loved the change ups and some of the commonalities and abstracts!! Great stuff! Good job, Bonnie!
DeleteI kept wanting to sing, "It's the end of the world as we know it." Interesting form. I want to try it. There's so much going on in this poem, the intensity and force of the words. Initially I thought it got bogged down in the longer lines, but on second reading, I think it works to slow down for a bit there.
DeleteI wrote a ghazal. A Ghazal is an Indian love poem five to fifteen rhyming couplets that share a refrain at the end of the second line. You can use your name in the last line. There is more to it but I can't remember.
ReplyDeleteLove Ghazal for Paul Bole
I put you, my love, on the throne
because I love you on the throne
You talk to me with great respect
You do not wish to be on the throne
equals is what you wish to be
and yet I've thrown you on the throne
because I worship the ground you walk
yet you do not wish for the throne
I love you more than words can say
Linda Bole put you on the throne.
Linda has written many a ghazal in her time so once the rules were explained she wrote a Cascade Verse which is a form that is new to her. Now here is a form that I have never tried and it looks confusing so I will have to study it and try one.
DeleteI have to admit I kept picturing a toilet, "on the throne." LOL.
DeleteI didn't understand the rules. So now I wrote a Cascade Verse.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorrow for abused children
with bruised faces and broken limbs
The parents belong behind bars
They cannot control their tempers
they cannot see their souls
I feel sorrow for abused children
They cry at night for fear of parents
who punish with hands and make children
with bruised faces and broken limbs
The parents lie at hospitals
they say the child fell down the cellar stairs
the parents belong behind bars
good! you have the scheme down perfectly and a great poem, but I am going to give you the same advice Victoria gave me on mine. Keep the beats even. You start out with 9-8-8 and then..8-6-9 (you could say - I feel ad for abused children' and 'they cannot see into their souls'... just something to work on if you want. A lot of harsh reality in this write and you know how I like that type of poem :-).
Deleteaaarrgghhh...that was supposed to say I feel sad for abused children... this keyboard skips the 's' from time to time
DeleteI really want to try this form. I intended for this post, but am running out of time!! Along with Bonnie's suggestions, I'd suggest punctuation. As written, stanza to seems to imply the abused children cannot control their tempers, etc. But otherwise, I like it a lot.
DeleteDear Bonnie, I am sorry I can't do your prompt, I fear I am too untutored in poetic form, as sonnets, iambic pentameter and quatrains are about my speed with maybe a limerick or a bit of haiku thrown in for good measure. I will read with interest what you all write, however. and perhaps next time the prompt will be one I can respond to.
ReplyDeleteDear Tasha, We all really challenged ourselves with your "fork" idea. It is not that hard to write form poetry. You go to a site. I usually look for a site called "example of a lento" or "example of a cascade poem" and mimic it. It might seem hard at first but it is really quite easy. It took me about a half an hour to do my cascade poem. I learned to do "Ghazal" poetry in the same manner. I studied the example and mimicked it. In the end you have your very own poem. Please try for the sake of the challenge. That is part of the game. It is like sitting back and watching a game of scrabble, that is no fun. Hugs Linda
DeleteIf you look at the list Bonnie at the link Bonnie posted, you can see that some forms are pretty loose, like an acrostic, which just has to have the first letter of each line spell a word.
DeleteThe idea is go challenge yourself and write a form with which you are not familiar or tutored. Reach outside your comfort zone as I did when you challenged me to write a sonnet a day for a week quite awhile back. I don't like to do sonnets but I did it because it made me think outside the box. I challenge you to do the same. :-)
ReplyDeletethe idea is 'to' challenge yourself.. lol... not 'go' challenge yourself although I guess either word works.
DeleteROLL CALL
ReplyDeletean Abecedarian
Aaliyah, Aceain, Arisandro
Bhagwantie. Beautiful names on my tongue.
Chinoka, Cashawn, Roll call poetry.
Davinya says It’s Vinny. Not to me.
Elijah, Ezekiel, Enrique,
Fateema, Francisco, Finneas, Flor,
Godsgift, says Giffy. No way. Genesis.
Hazika. How musical my voice sounds
Imani, Isidoro frowns, says
Joey. Julio, Jakara, Jovon
Keisha, Khadijah, Kameisha, Keyon,
Lourdes, Licheidy, Limary, Lashay,
Mircarly, Madixia, Monifa,
Nephertity, Naadir, Nyasia. No
one named Bob, Tom. Oshin, Ondrelique,
Patreese, Petherina, Paris, Prima,
Quashea, Quintlyn, Queen-Shaykee, Just Queen.
Razza, Radhika, Rashida, Rayshawn
Shatavia Sayvonne Shafaq Sejfo
Tatyana Teyona Tashea Tremaine
Ulyana, unfamiliar in my mouth.
Vatusia, Verenisse, Vionna,
Willnelis. Classes full of strangers’ names.
Xavier, Xiomara, Ximén
Yesenia, Yomayra, Yashira
Zakiya, Zuka, Zuleika, Zaire.
Being short of time this week, I pulled out a poem I started about a decade ago and never finished. It's a form I've never done before though!
Deletethis is an intriguing and interesting form and I have to admit one I had never seen before. I have to try this one! love the way the roll call and the deeper meaning of the poem pull together. as usual a totally awesome write.
DeleteYes, Victoria, totally awesome form and poem! I've never seen it before!
DeleteHad to try it.
ReplyDeleteplan a death
a blitz poem
make a list
make a plan
plan a wedding
plan a family
family matters
family life
life sentence
life goes on
on and on
on top of things
things happen
things get better
better for him
better for her
her wants and needs
her period missed
missed another
missed another
another pregnancy
another baby
baby shoes
baby grows
grows bigger
grows up
up, up
up and away
away from home
away to college
college life
college degree
degree of separation
degree of freedom
freedom to fail
freedom to marry
marry for money
marry for love
love your spouse
love what you do
do it again
do it right
right or wrong
right or left
left his wife
left nothing
nothing is left
nothing but death
death ends
death is it
it
ends
nailed it!! love the ending and how the poem takes us from birth do death but the ending is really powerful. I love finding new forms of poetry.
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