Discern
Spiritual
awakening to the
minds eyes to protect
our souls from the flesh
inside.
Cinquain Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting
of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet,
Adelaide Crapsey. Another form, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows: Line 1: Noun Line 2: Description of Noun Line 3: Action Line 4: Feeling or Effect Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.
Unknown
Not
Knowing is
Better than
Having the notion
Of seeking answers that you cant find.
Tetractys Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing,
consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20). Tetractys can be written with more than one verse,
but must follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Tetractys can also
bereversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1. Double Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1 Triple Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 and so on. "Euclid, the mathematician of classical times, considered the
number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of
its own - Tetractys. The tetractys could be Britain's answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a
complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of
twenty syllables." - Ray Stebbing
A poet without love
She’s
Finding
Her way through
This bliss, wanting to
Make sense of her love.
Her destiny is to
Write. A poet without love.
Is like an empty vessel without words.
She’s finding out what it’s like to find
Her muse after all this time, yet know she’s alive.
Etheree The poetry form, Etheree, consists of
10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Get creative and write an Etheree with more than one verse, but follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Reversed Etheree: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Double Etheree: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...Triple Etheree, Quadruple Etheree, and so on!
Mystery
She
love the
danger it brings
too her.
The
urgency of upholding
being mysterious.
Septolet The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen
words with a break in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture.
Lanturne
The Lanturne is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern
with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one.