By Bucketlist
Fall
Integrates beauty
With abundant vibrant hues
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| Author Notes | The challenge this week--Candlelight ( does NOT have to be about candles, light, etc. can be about ANYTHING). Author's choice of topic. ***17 lines ***centered on page ***syllabic as follows: 5-5-5-4-4-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-7 ***Rhyme scheme: aabbccxxxxxxxxxxx (x is UNRHYMED) |
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We often complain about the weather!
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Flowers gently waving in the breeze
Their seeds go wherever they please
While the parent plant is rooted here
seeds become seedlings far or near
Brighten the days with colors diverse
Live in one place, together immerse
Cycle's repeated wherever they started
We too can 'bloom where we're planted'
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| Author Notes | This is located in Arkansas, design by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Fall slowly concedes to Winter
Shadows flicker
Sun's rays less bright
Leaves twirl in flight
Then as winter firmly moves in
Gray days begin
Icy blasts blow
Plant growth will slow
Fragile white lace flakes fall on ground
Without a sound
Fingers of ice
Grip like a vice
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The Minute Poem is a poem that follows the "8,4,4,4" syllable count structure. It usually has 3 stanzas that are exactly the same. So: 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables.
A traditional Minute Poem has 12 lines total. It has 60 syllables. It is written in a strict iambic meter. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff. |
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England's a country I adore
Born there after Second World War
The lifestyle I love to explore
A mixture of commerce and peace
Farmers with crops, livestock 'n geese
Thatched cottages up for lease
Old time crafts, which I can't ignore
London, always a fast city
Nightlife, pubs, and parks so pretty
Some parts lead to inequity
Comedy clubs hear laughter roar
Travel to where dales can be found
Great undulating sights abound
Or caves where echoes will rebound
The rural side attracts me more
My memories of winding roads
Wildlife from deer to tiny toads
Patchwork quilts, their color explodes
Scenic vistas from shore to shore
I lament the ways those calm days
Have changed now into stressful ways
Society for which I praised
Has lost its unique ways galore
| Author Notes | Zejel The Zejel is a very old Spanish poetic form that-- likely an even older Arabic poetic form that originated sometime between the ninth and eleventh centuries. RULES for Zejel: 1st stanza-- a tercet (3-line stanza) with an AAA rhyme scheme ALL other stanzas are quatrains (4-line stanzas) with a XXXA rhyme scheme, so the 2nd stanza would be BBBA, 3rd CCCA, 4th DDDA, and so on to the end of the poem-- continue with as many quatrains as you like! Lines are usually 8 syllables long |
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Retourne
The Retourne contains four quatrains and each line has eight syllables. (16 lines, 8/8/8/8) The first stanza's second line must also be the second stanza's first line, the first stanza's third line is the third stanza's first, and the first stanza's fourth line is the fourth stanza's first. (hint: make a template to keep lines in order). Retournes do not have to rhyme. (rhyme optional) Meter optional, too. |
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As the sun weakens its gold hue
Comes a new view
Moon beams blending
Sun's till sending
Twilight time the birds all twitter
fireflies glitter
Darkness around
Silence is found
Night sky is increasingly clear
Stars reappear
Moonlight's quite bright
Impressive sight
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The Minute Poem is a poem that follows the "8,4,4,4" syllable count structure. It usually has 3 stanzas that are exactly the same. So: 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables.
A traditional Minute Poem has 12 lines total. It has 60 syllables. It is written in a strict iambic meter. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff. |
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We are close to nature by life cycle
As this year draws to a close,
I am reminded of the end of a cycle
This is the thought that arose
There's beauty and grace in the winter
The final stage of our physical life
This tree has had a life cycle full
of richness, productivity, and strife
When I saw this tree captured scene
I was fascinated by the connections
Reminded how in the final stage
We are alone with our reflections
The tree became an art design for me
A replica of what we go through
It's once fruitful contribution to life
A barren shell of what it could do
Reflections of our time past
Now, while life goes on around
Once valued, now aesthetic in art
it's effect on me was profound
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Santa is traditional
He travels round the world
Sometimes his reindeer
Need a well earned break
From pulling the heavy sleigh
Santa needs a break as well
So that's what he planned to do
He used his new GPS
To find a hot quiet beach
Where they spent a restful day
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Very few of us are baggage free
To see clearly beyond labels
Which our true selves disable
Enable mental tapes to grow
Sow belief from insults’ dirt
will blurt inside our head
Led by Inferiorty piles will tower
Until our final hour we must
Seek self-trust, 'me', in my eyes
Realize we're created to be
Free, our true selves unravel
Travel as if we then intend
To end others’ tapes as boss
Toss old self doubt as we fly
Try to regain ourselves again
In pain the small helpless child
Meek and mild instead of strong
Has a long tough journey ahead
Instead can become our true self
A wealth that cannot be bought
But taught to lose baggage each day
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Blind Rhyme or Hidden Rhyme Hidden Rhyme, or Blind Rhyme, is an exercise verse, sometimes used in poetry workshops and classrooms in which the end-word of each line rhymes internally early within the next line. This practice appears to be a loose descendant from 4th century Celtic poet use of aicill rhyme.
Hidden Rhyme, or Blind Rhyme is: * suited to light verse. (anything goes!) * structured at the discretion of the poet. * best when L1 sets a rhythm and the following lines maintain the same cadence. * composed with the end-word of each line rhymed internally in the following line. * often but NOT always, written with the first line rhyming with the last line. ******* 7 |
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Bioluminescence
Live marine plankton
Float on surface
Glow in dark
Motion
Starts
Ocean life beauty
Maldives Islands view
| Author Notes | Tiny marine plankton, called dinoflagellates, float in large concentrations near the surface of the ocean. Many of these dinoflagellates are bioluminescent. Their light is motion-activated, giving the water a blue-green glow in the presence of a passing ship, wave or swimming animal. |
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| Author Notes | North Coyote Butts on the Colorado and Arizona border |
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Mermaids are bizarre and mythical
They don't look like us you see
Confused identity half girl half fish
Is something I'd like to be
I wonder where they shop for bras
Don't have to stop to wear panties
There's no need to do any laundry
Each one wears nature's fancies
Their tails end with a 'va' shaped fluke
The strong tail helps them to swim
The torso covered in silvery scales
Shines through waters deep and dim
Their lipstick always stays in place
Their face always looks the same
Beautiful hair covers their charms
it flows back with the current
But the songs the sirens sing
Lure sailors each night and day
To lure their ships onto rocks
A mermaid? Not me, I'll stay
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‘Spring’ saunters on the runway
Delicately models pastel colors
Colored ‘bulbs’ rise from the path
Diverse new fresh design ideas
On young runway models
‘Summer’ jauntily appears
Wearing different shapes
Colors and garden designs
For fun in the sun activities
In the bright warm sunshine
‘Fall’ models mingle in shades
Green through gold and red
Discarding outfit layers
Twirling around playfully
Like leaves spinning down
Winter, a mature fashion show
With layers of white and brown
Plain and simple warm attire
While 'snow flakes' gather to
Blanket the frozen brown earth
| Author Notes | An experiment with seasonal poetry! |
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