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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2001-02-23 02:42 PM

Conforming in form, informs
By which form,
Taken and makes thoughts to form.

Haiku

White blanket laying,
Wind formed to formless flowing,
Footprints form a path.

Tanka

Flakes of white drift
Ice winds fills the hidden lows,
Flaying through all clothes,
The night brings a calm dark with
Formless fields to trees shadows.

Quintain, English

The day was of winter winds of snows,
Casually filling the depressions with white,
Formed to smooth sheets by the brisk blows,
Till all falls to calm with the coming night,
Footprints forms a path to trees and out of sight.

Cinquain

Ice winds
Blowing the snows
Casting smoothing to all,
Form then marking in the calming,
Footprints

Sonnet

I walk the way in white blanket wrapping,
To leave my place and step into lone forms,
A step to mark a path with each stepping,
Then gone behind as the winter does swarm;

The dark comes down with the whiteness ending,
Ice winds flaying through the layers of warm,
Carries the sensations into the white blending.
Then I pause there to rest as wind does ease.

Quiet and dark amidst soft smooth chilling,
Formless beauty white fields runs to the trees,
The holes and deep ditches over flowing,
Conforms to just the wind the soul to please.

Then step and shape a path through the frozen,
Leave forms for the winter to fill back in.

Gloom

jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

1 posted 2001-02-23 02:49 PM

cool.....and not just cause this is about snow and ice, this is a really nice collection......I write mostly freestyle, the forms are too complicated to get my thoughts down into......so I really appreciate the effort...and let me add that ALL the forms are equally as well done...*nods her head* yep, like this....

[This message has been edited by jellybeans (edited 02-23-2001).]

Voiceless
Senior Member

since 2001-02-19

Posts 686
Under the stars upon the wind

2 posted 2001-02-23 02:55 PM

An interesting and neat collection!

~*Peachy Be*~

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

3 posted 2001-02-23 04:40 PM

Thank you, jellybeans
Glad you like it, I write mostly in forms
Seems I need a structure upon which to hang a rhyme

Thank you, Voiceless,
For taking the time to read and respond

Gloom

kcsgrandma
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since 2000-09-24

Posts 1522
Presque Isle, ME

4 posted 2001-02-24 12:48 PM

This is a nice idea, writing on the same subject in several forms. I think I'm going to save it as an example. I agree that it's good to have a form to work with, but really appreciate that all types of poetry may be found here.

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2001-02-24 03:57 AM

well..what can one say but Xcellent...

I gave it a try myself this morning..early...thanks for the challenge

~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

ATelamon
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since 2001-02-06

Posts 328
Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up

6 posted 2001-02-24 06:55 AM

more is the applause for multiple forms.

AT

"Time is merely change. It neither enslaves nor determines us. It is instead our opportunity for self-definition"

Poeminister
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since 2000-02-26

Posts 1862
Regina SK; Canada

7 posted 2001-02-25 06:52 PM

You've shown great usage to all these form here...capitally done.

Poeminister

JLR
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since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

8 posted 2001-02-25 06:57 PM

Thanks...Now I think I get all the diff forms. Gotta save this. Enjoyed them all.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

9 posted 2001-02-25 06:58 PM

this is the second of these where different forms were used with a common subject

is it from a challenge?

Icy winds seemed to be an excellent subject for you to weave into these different forms. Thanks for sharing with us.

NC
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since 2001-02-20

Posts 89

10 posted 2001-02-25 10:35 PM

wonderful usage of all the forms, Professor

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

11 posted 2001-02-26 05:20 AM

Thank you, kcsgrandma,
Well, not all types are found there, I’m sure a few
Other styles still exist.

Thank you, nakdthoughts,
I am please you liked this,
But it is not intended as a challenge,
Just a musing of a poet with time
And a field of new fallen snow to look upon.

Thank you, Atelamom,
I am pleased you like them.

Thank you, Poeminister,
Glad you liked the forms,
I find form aids in the writing.

Thank you, JLR,
It’s nice that you find my words worthy of saving,
I have a few at my website,
but it’s woefully needing of updating.

Thank you, VAS,
I am pleased you liked this,
But I know of no, or offered a challenge.
Although you’ll find that ideas are repeated,
Expounded upon by others, and formed similarly.
I poetry, the challenge is to the poet,
To express the thought or emotion.

Thank you, NC
For taking the time to read and respond.

Gloom

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