Open Poetry #43 |
Runes (humor, poetry) |
Hunter's Moon New Member
since 2008-12-17
Posts 3Virginia, USA |
Runes Blank verse, free verse, I can’t see why should I call that poetry? Why should I waste my time when I could be immersed in rhyme? There’s something about the ebb and flow of rhyming words. I want to know how anything could be much sweeter than listening to the music of a lilting meter. Acrostic, cinquain, ancient haiku to me, none of these will do. Give me the whimsy of Clerihew four bright lines of varied hue. While I can respect the form, Pleiades doesn’t keep me warm. I prefer a rhyming puzzle structured like the Persian Ghazal. So keep your sestina and triad, not that I think of them as bad, but I prefer my mind to dwell on the multi-rhyming villanelle. Only one verse of the dorsimbra rhymes and that leaves me feeling blah. And, so I’ll cast this magic chant in hopes that rhyme will soon supplant. “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” Save us all from unrhymed hell, bless us with your doggerel. Note: Just a little poetry humor for those of us who love rhyme |
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Juju Member Elite
since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429In your dreams |
Hey Welcome!!!!!!! Keep it up man! -Juju |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Hunter's Moon - looking good... BC |
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Vestibular Bard Member
since 2008-12-11
Posts 284New York |
Hey Hunter’s Moon! How do you do? When it comes to rhyming, I’m with you. That free verse stuff gets too sublime, It’s best for folks, who can’t bust rhyme. I read free verse sayin’; ‘holy crap!’ It’s one big adjective attack! Sometimes I really get perturbed, I just keep searching for the verb! Hey, talk about your ‘lilting meter’ Yer second stanza could be sweeter. And you use words, that I don’t know, I’m just a bard, and kinda slow That last stanza sure rang a bell, I thought that was some witches spell? But hopefully that brief refrain, Is safely in public domain… I’m looking forward to your rhymes With good acrostics, they’ll sound fine… I’m gonna click a lot on you, ‘Cause I know I won’t get…. …lame haiku! |
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Callista Member
since 2008-10-05
Posts 63USA |
I wasted my time on rhyme, but was pleasantly surprised. Thanks for sharing! "The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
welcome, though you will add to outnumbering those of us who love free verse, welcome to PiP...my original mentor (a Mr. McCamish) explained that in order to have the right to break all the rules, I first had to learn them...so while I do love all the rules, I do love the free expression that comes from breaking them |
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Callista Member
since 2008-10-05
Posts 63USA |
I relish the thought of having a mentor, but am basically stumbling around "expressing myself" as best I can, while reading about sonnets and villanelle. |
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Marc-Andre Senior Member
since 2008-12-07
Posts 501 |
An excellent poem I'm with you on form, with one reservation. I wouldn't associate blank verse with free verse. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter that with a restricted and judicial use of metrical substitutions, enjambments etc. can produce powerful lines: John Milton's Paradise Lost comes to mind. So do many Elizabethean dramatic pieces, such as Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and the plays of Shakespeare. In recent times, there is Robert Frost who writes exquisite blank verse. Actually, I find it a lot harder to produce effective blank verse than it is to pen a decent poem in a stricter form that gives me freedom from prolixity and wandering thoughts. As for free verse, I'm afraid this just isn't my bag. I believe that it is through craft that art is best displayed. I have seen a few works of free verse that were more than loosely-strung words dispersed on the page by the author's addiction to the enter key. Too often, however, all I see is little more execrable prose. With all the ornaments available for poetry, such as feminine endings, truncated lines, alliterations and metrical substitution, along with the richness of our English vocabulary replete with etymologically-evocative and foreign words, surely we are still a long way from fully exploiting the contents of our dictionaries. The first piece of software I launch after turning on my laptop is Meriam-Webster's CD-rom. Have a marvelous day, and a warm welcome to PiP Mark |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Welcome to Passions, Ken! We do enjoy reading and knowing the enchantment of one who knows not only have to rhyme, but to have great meter! Well done! Please, check your email for a Very Special Greeting! |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Welcome, Ken. I enjoy most forms of poetry and think this is very good. Looking forward to reading more of your work. Ida |
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LindsayP Member Elite
since 2007-07-28
Posts 3410Australia, Victoria |
Welcome Ken to Pip, you will meet some great friends here. I write rhyming poetry myself but I enjoy nearly all poetry. I look forward to reading more from you. Lindsay |
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