List: Classic Poetry Forms

• Oh, Foul Pentameter

  Oh, why so foul, pentameter?
  Thy claw digs deep into my brain-

  25 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 7 1:20 PM
• From Quasimodo, on a Dairy Farm

  or, "Meter is in the Eye of the Beholder"

  187 lines, 15 comments, on Aug 7 9:35 AM. In Meter, Sonnet, Critical, Humor
• Two Souls Collide

  (Free Verse and Triple Terzanelle)

  155 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 15 9:01 AM
• A Heart of Simplicity

  Where thoughts grow slow in maturity

  24 lines, on May 15 4:01 PM
• love at the penny arcade...

  long
  overt

  35 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 7 8:40 PM. In Abstract, Love, Double Etheree, Acrostic
• Install Rain

  What do I see encased in jade,
  obsidian, opal, or just jade?

  44 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 29 3:42 AM
• With a Heart

  Jefferies Sonnet

  21 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 29 12:13 PM. In Classic Poetry Forms, Love
• Voice of Winter Breathing

  In the night a man awakes in winter
  brushing snow asunder as he greets it,

  14 lines, 13 comments, on Feb 27 1:46 PM
• It’s Way Too Late, Too Late for a Sonnet

  It’s way too late, too late for a sonnet
  I should be stirring my conscious to sleep

  21 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 9 1:16 AM 2007. In Psuedo Sonnet
• I Lost My Heart to the Scented Internet

  (sestina)

  48 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 4 5:20 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Romance
• Is Just a Call Away

  I / had once / felt a l i v e / in times now gone / lost… in yesterday /

  75 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 8 10:29 AM 2007. In Love, Nature
• On Fishes, Princes, and Dental Hygienists

  a Shakespearean comedic soliloquy sonnet...

  21 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 8 1:07 AM 2007. In Romance
• But for Failure I'd Not Have Succeeded

  She was exhausted, weighed down by sorrows, / not seeing a single reason to live; / I claimed her hand, drew forth her tomorrows / promisin

  19 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 1 12:09 PM 2007. In Love
• No Sonnets for the Highwayman

  
  

  68 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 6 5:56 AM 2006. In Other
• Bouncing, Being, and Mooing

  Sonnet rhythm study...

  20 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 5 9:11 AM 2006. In Humor, Childrens
• Shifting in the Sand

  38 lines, 43 comments, on Nov 23 3:48 AM 2005. In Erotica, Love, Collaboration
• Epigram of Flatulence

  ^.^

  22 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 11 11:10 PM 2005. In Humor
• Proverb- One Man One Woman

  Too many women and the world floods.

  16 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 7 8:49 PM 2005. In Other, Love
• A Smart Little Fairy

  Oh, sigh!
  Calculus tonight,

  108 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 21 11:41 PM 2005. In Fantasy, Humor, Childrens
• A Sonnet on Virtual Love

  Will a virtual kiss bring warmth to hearts out in the real world?
  It's a certainty, yes; our passions find that they already do!

  46 lines, 16 comments, on Oct 9 7:57 AM 2005. In Love, Contemporary
• Shakespearean Sonnet for HeavenScent4U

  Shattered mirrors lie in your dreams far gone
  now in healing your days are better spent

  27 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 15 7:26 AM 2005. In Personal, Love, Hope
• 'Acrostic' for HeavenScent4U

  Simple companionship.

  26 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 9 9:00 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Hope
• 'Haiku' for HeavenScent4U

  A lost empty shell;
  searching for peace in autumn

  8 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 9 8:57 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Hope
• 'Villanelle' for HeavenScent4U

  Are you asking too much?
  A romance under a night sky

  27 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 9 8:47 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Hope
• Mausoleum Epigram

  Her words fell upon the ground
  her artform sprouting from the mound.

  36 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 24 1:32 PM 2005. In Humor, Dark
• And the Last ABC Acrostic- Zoro's Zipper.

  And the last ABC acrostic in this contest.
  Big and stylish,

  108 lines, 18 comments, on May 12 9:17 AM 2005. In Weird, Other, Humor
• The Rondeau of Count Mondo

  So once again Count Mondo relaxes in the sun

  36 lines, 6 comments, on May 1 6:35 PM 2005. In Weird, Other, Dark
• An Apostrophe ' to Homer

  Homer, of long ages past,
  you came during the end of the Greek dark ages

  150 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 30 8:45 PM 2005. In Society, Hope, Contemporary
• A Shakespearean Sonnerotica

  The fairest creature stands before me now,
  as bare as any mirrored memories,

  25 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 30 7:06 AM 2005. In Fantasy, Other, Love
• Mimes advancing across my dreams...

  A Pantoum

  63 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 1 10:23 AM 2005. In Weird
• Philosophically Tickled Bomperts

  a Bomperts

  20 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 1 9:15 PM 2005. In Other, Humor
• As We Stand in a Sunny Pleasure Dome of Pilfered Poetry

  This 'semi'-canto is meant to be a linkible portal into old poetry.
  In other words, 'a pretty poem playfully pilfering from poets of the p

  110 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 27 1:13 AM 2005. In Other
• Feeling Out the Rhythm of an Englyn Penfyr

  an Englyn Penfyr

  12 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 19 10:11 PM 2005. In Other
• Lost In Her Crumbcake

  No one important
  Made me a crumbcake

  5 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 18 1:18 AM 2005. In Sad, Love
• Shamefully I Scream

  Shamefully I scream
  At a little fly

  6 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 15 10:01 PM 2005. In Other
• In A Castle Bare

  a 5 x 5 poem

  6 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 15 9:56 PM 2005. In Other
• I Sit at the Table of Tragedy

  I sit at the table of tragedy, lost
  with all those who’ve recently failed in life;

  25 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 28 9:28 PM. In Life, Classic Poetry Forms
• The Haunted Road

  Mere puppets they, who come and go
  shrouded forms, that start and sigh

  26 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 28 10:26 PM. In Spooky, Villanelle

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