Category Archives: Poetry
Genesis
God created man
Man created race
God created love
Man created hate
God created birds and bees
Water and trees
Man created guns and drugs
Money and disease
God created time
Man created the clock
When the clock stops ticking
Does that mean that God’s time will stop?
Love – A Tetractys for National Poetry Month
Love
Lifts me
Beyond clouds
Brightens my soul
With you, possibilities are endless
Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20).
“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.
Freedom – A Diamante for Poetry Month
Freedom
resolute, chainless
evolving, liberating, emancipating
innate, generous, restricted, controlled
regressing, falling, dying
hopeless, broken
Prisoner
Diamante
A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape.
The first line begins with a noun/subject, and second line contains
two adjectives that describe the beginning noun. The third line
contains three words ending in -ing relating to the noun/subject.
The forth line contains two words that describe the noun/subject
and two that describe the closing synonym/antonym. In the fifth
line are three more -ing words describing the ending antonym/synonym
and the sixth are two more adjectives describing the ending
antonym/synonym. The last line ends with the first noun's antonym
or synonym.
To make it a bit simpler, here is a diagram.
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about
the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject