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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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From the list below, choose a symbol, and this will be your theme: 1. Horseshoe 2. Round Table 3. Broom 4. Vulture 5. Mirror 6. Whale 7. Ruby 8. Branches 9. Cave 10. Cockroach 11. Bathing 12. The color yellow 13. the number seven NOW... If you have chosen your theme, go to the list below, and find a form. a. Sonnet (form of your choice) http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/sonnet.html b. Pantoum http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/pantoum.html c. Haiku http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/haiku.html d. Paradelle http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/paradelle.html e. Ballad http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/ballad.html f. Triolet http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/triolet.html g. Senryu http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/senryu.html h. Free Verse http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/free.html i. Acrostic http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/acrostic.html j. Villanelle http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/villanelle.html k. Blank verse http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/blankverse.html l. Canzone (for the adventurous) m. Sestina (for the certifiably insane) http://www.shadowpoetry.com/wip/sestina.html Now, go play. Smile. Just post the result in Open this way? Title: New Challenge 13-a. <--tis an example people.  and I'll be back with urls for blank verse and canzone...sigh. Just typing this challenge was a challenge! Thanks vicky and local parasite! muah! kisses! [This message has been edited by serenity blaze (07-30-2003 04:10 AM).] |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Well, I'll have to give this some thought, but you KNOW I'm playin'...can't resist this one.  And...you're welcome.  I'll be back... |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Okay. Sigh. I used a very scientific method to choose my first challenge from my own poetic buffet (which I will reveal at a later date) but? for those who know me? you KNOW--I did indeed stick to the plan--because I HATE writing haiku/senryu--whatever... (serenity is now tempted to "neener" HERSELF. hmmm? now that would be a gift, now wouldn't it?  )but sigh, at least I got this one out of the way... pphhhhhhhllllbbbbbbbttttttttt: /pip/Forum80/HTML/003695.html chuckle. But DO have fun! mmmm..."b'bye!" |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Good grief. At first I thought the last one was calzone and I thought you were going to feed us while we played your maniacal game. But noooooooo....not to be. Grief. Sigh.  May we do more than one? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Sunshine? YOU can do whatever ya like... chuckle "my scientific method" has just landed me on the Paradelle. Oh DO look for that real soon.  |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
I'll be back later....after coffee....etc. I can't see the screen yet to figure it out. *Enchantress exits rubbing eyes and walking into the wall* [This message has been edited by Enchantress (07-30-2003 04:08 PM).] |
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garysgirl  
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Where is th rictameter, Serene One??  |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Oh, and it's very good to see you here, Karen.  |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Ok I am game very cool challenge K! I am not doing a paradelle - I think I attempted that and got brain freeze or was that a villanelle? Ok did a senyru - that was awful triolet - yes sonnet yes sestina - yes never again free yes blank? hmmm OK I have no idea what I am doing, God the paradelle does look tasty . . . wait wait meter in blank verse . . . oooooh . . . I may need tylenol for this AWESOME challenge I will be back xxoo [This message has been edited by littlewing (07-30-2003 10:27 AM).] |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Hey! Where is our sweet Wind?! She must choose the word "yellow".....she must!! Come on Wind...you mentioned it in one of your challenge poems as being your favourite colour! It will be great! Come on!  As for myself.....duh...I can't believe how many forms of poetry there are, nevermind choose one, and try to learn how to write it!! Good grief! Homework....homework....Chris mutters as she heads for the kitchen and something sweet to get her sugar level back up. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Chuckle...wasn't expecting anybody to actually play--what are ya'll--CRAZY? laughing, and ethel? since nobody can agree on what Canzone is, feel free to substitute Rictameter for that one. And YES? Where is Wind? Vicky and I threw in the color yellow ESPECIALY for her! I'm still checking my eyelids for holes over here, good poets--be back after while... |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
heh..I'll do triolet and branches..because it is SO out of my style  Oh wait- the color yellow- how many times have I done THAT one..I'll count inside my head... insanity is not a crime [This message has been edited by Wind (07-30-2003 02:27 PM).] |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Did someone call Crazy? |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
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I've decided to do free verse and yellow..but wait? Serenity- I already have 3 poems with the color yellow in them one is even a duet..Drifting/pip/Forum80/HTML/001778.html Happy in my oblivion/pip/Forum80/HTML/003440.html Primarily speaking (ok, duncan wrote the yellow, but it's half mine  )/pip/Forum80/HTML/002673.html I win  cos I'm all yellow Sigh..and yet? I'm not satisfiedinsanity is not a crime [This message has been edited by Wind (07-30-2003 03:04 PM).] |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Holy Cow!!! Wind you are not going to believe this......!!! I went outside and sat in the sun....well, that's easy to believe...but I wrote my first triolet(I think) and it is Branches!!!!!!!! I had not even read your post! I think we are all connected somehow...like when pretzels break in the bag and get hooked together! Huh? Oh, dear too much sun. Anyway....here it is /pip/Forum80/HTML/003727.html Don't laugh too much okay? I tried.  |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
hahahahaha? do you know why I am laughing so much? I'm laughing at you. You think there's something wrong with your poem? heh. thats laughable insanity is not a crime |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Okay, Karen...wanna hear something almost scary? I decided to use my OWN highly scientific method to come up with my first challenge. Would you believe?...2-g?...I kid you not! If I didn't know better, I'd think I was lying...LOL. *Vicky exits...wondering what KAREN'S scientific method consists of* [This message has been edited by vlraynes (07-30-2003 05:05 PM).] |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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 Mine was "eeny meeny minie mo". |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
LOL @ YOUR 'scientific' method. It's ALMOST as highly scientific as mine was. I took a deck of cards and drew one card (a 2) for the theme, and a second card (a 7) for the form. LOL. Gotta love it... |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
what to do..what to do insanity is not a crime |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
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You know what? looking at these..I am seeing were they come from..like the cockroach (serenity) And the color yellow (me) broom (most likely serenity's if it can fly... ) I am reading your mind right now..yellow is repedative..I'll do 7..7 and free verse. 7 is my unlucky number. And if ya think that's weird..my lucky number is 13. I love irony insanity is not a crime |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
/pip/Forum80/HTML/003740.html 5-h I think...  |
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Riley
since 2002-07-18
Posts 1038in the pouring rain |
hehe, i didn't even notice i did this, picked 5-h ( 5 being my lucky number and h because i cannot write in any type of form but free verse....lol ) and the one above me picked it tooo.....lol off to write my poem...urg, and with my writer block, how painful... riley *the bloody tide comes in on the shore, time after time* |
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Skyfire
since 2000-12-27
Posts 3381Riding |
Oh gawd I have to do a ballad??? *groans* that was the part of English 10 that I failed. *sighs and grins* well it's a good thing I'm not blocked, now isn't it? TTFN |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
May I do another? |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
being totally insane. . . I'm choosing 12 (yellow) and m (sestina). . . I'll be back. . . -------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person, but to one person, you may be the world. |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Serenity...You got to be joking or maybe you've been down to the Quarter again. Well you know me,being a coon a_ _ i'll give it a try in the next few days...Paul "To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you" |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
BINGO! Ok,ok,ok...This whole thing is getting soo outta hand, I mean it just SCREAMS discipline. (something which I've done quite nicely without, thank you) But if y'all wanna make yerseffs crazy? Play on, play on I'll be readin' |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Ed...y'mean yer not into discipline? sigh. I oiled my whip for nothing then? Bad yeti... and I'm going to try to sleep tonight. and I'm going to try to sleep tonight. (I've got paradelles on the brain now--damn, Ed--you are right. Why do I do this to me?  ) |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
/pip/Forum80/HTML/003753.html (8-L)I did an easy one that time....my old standby, the rictameter you said I could substitute. Next time I'll do one of the harder ones.  |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Hey Chris...YooHoo!! I just noticed that you chose branches, too, after I had already posted my own. You said that we think alike. HeeHee!! But, I didn't try the triolet, like you did...yet!!! But, that is the one I've had in mind to try. LOL |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Good grief....the toilet...I mean....triolet was difficult, especially writing one out in the sun. I have so much to learn!! Where was I in highschool? Oh ya....nevermind. Karen, my dear serenity, how about you writing a poem for all of us about the oak tree - witch connection? I think it only fair since we have been such good kiddies. Huh? How about? Okay.....pleeeeeaaase?  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'll give it a shot Chris--but it'll have to be later, k? I have some errands to run... ta ta for now! |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Yippeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! Okay, okay....go run your errands. We'll be patiently waiting !! hee hee hee.... |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
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you've inspired me K..I'm going to invent something called "the color challenge." I'll wait until the others cool down though..sigh. Number seven... it was never lucky whats wrong with me? insanity is not a crime |
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Riley
since 2002-07-18
Posts 1038in the pouring rain |
here's mine, dark and morbid and depressing.....blah...i can't stand much more of this. /pip/Forum80/HTML/003800.html *the bloody tide comes in on the shore, time after time* |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Branches - Free Verse /pip/Forum80/HTML/003812.html |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Branches..I think Haikus..I do believe I am suffering from brain drain.  /pip/Forum80/HTML/003814.html |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
just sitting around..reading. Being a GOOD girl. (not wasting forum space with this) branches branches withered cross the sky, cuts the colors half their size, turn around and say goodbye branches withered cross the sky. Time for me to break the lies It's raining and I don't know why, branches withered cross the sky cuts the colors half their size ugh.. insanity is not a crime |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Wind !! Did you post this? To my eyes, it is a triolet. A lovely one at that. Are you sure of your age?!! Hmmm...perhaps an old soul - one that was an awesome poet! hugs, Chris |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
not posting it Chris...I try to limit my postings..don't ask why and plus, I am picky and know that this isn't my best. so I suppose you guys can read it..insanity is not a crime |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
a triolet indeed take the top branches off and make sure your two repeating lines - the first and the last are strong - capitalize the repeating lines - the first letters . . . POST IT Nice job Liz, did you know you were writing a triolet? A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines. [This message has been edited by littlewing (08-01-2003 11:32 AM).] |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
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yes I knew that.. and branches was the title, not a part of the poem. I just don't like it. I'm just reading other people's stuff instead of writing..I..I'll say that I'm having a writer's block or something.. I've done triolets before..how could anyone write one without knowing what it was? ugh..excuse my bitterness, I've been good for too long insanity is not a crime |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
That's okay Wind. I think our brains are beginning to fry from thinking too much....lol.....at least mine are. You're younger and have more get up and go. Sue - thanks for the info on triolets...makes me wonder now if I really wrote one or not. Can you let me know if I did...or didn't? I don't know where it is....it did a pretty quick Passionate Plummet, but it's called Branches as well. Thanks, Chris |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Well, I did what I thought was a triolet on Karen's witches story, but now I don't know if it was one or not, because of the rhyme AB thingy. And are not all of the first lines supposed to be capitalized....or just the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, and 8th?? Tell me, somebody. Okay? Thanks. |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Ethel...from what I can tell, it looks to me like you did it perfectly. It appears that you followed the rhyme scheme correctly, and the catitalization is an optional thing. Some people prefer to capitalize, and others don't. And?...I LOVE your poem. |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Thanks Vicky. I just went back and edited it after I read some more about triolets. It said to make it harder, there could be syllable count of ten on each line. And, I fixed it where the third and fifth and sixth lines don't start with capitals. Go see what you think of it now, okay?? Thanks. |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Yep...it still looks great to me, Ethel. I like it both ways. Question though...are you seeing somewhere, where it says that those particular lines are not supposed to be capitalized in that format? I'm not seeing that, so I was just wondering. |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Hi Vicky. I saw this at the link Karen gave..shadowpoetry.com. I copied and pasted this part about the Triolet....... Triolet A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines. Make writing a Triolet more challenging! Make each line 8 syllables in length (4 metrical feet), written in iambic tetrameter (the more common way), or try it in pentameter (English version) where each line only has 10 syllables(5 metrical feet). In the examples, though, most of them capitalized all of the first letters of each line. So, I guess it doesn't really matter, right? |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Right... I'm guessing that what threw you off was the capitalization of the A's and B's in the explanation of the rhyme scheme. Those letters were only capitalized to show that those particular lines were the repeated ones, but the capitalization of the actual poem can be done in any way that you choose. Anyway...I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something, before I assumed that you misunderstood. Bottom line?...You did an EXCELLENT job, and wrote a perfect triolet...I truly do love it. [This message has been edited by vlraynes (08-02-2003 01:13 AM).] |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Liz, I was complimenting you Ethel, your triolet is perfect those are the stickler rules as long as I get the lines in the right order - I am happy LOL Chris, yours is beautiful! you need not have me look at it I didnt mean to start a fuss Goodnight [This message has been edited by littlewing (08-03-2003 12:52 AM).] |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Sue -  |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
sue..didn't mean to soound angry. I'm sarcastic- not mean..although sometimes the two come together. I wonder why things are slowing down back here? just as it was getting interesting  sigh...insanity is not a crime |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
mine is still simmering... I just suddenly had a lot of pots on the stove. |
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