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  • Poetic Forms: Asean Sonnet by Ceridwens Soul
    Notes for the Asean sonnet
  • What are you majoring in and why? by HeLovesMeNot
    I'm just curious as to how ap members who are college students selected their majors.
  • All That You Ever Wanted to Know About Poetry: So What is Poetry Anyway? by S D McDaniel
    So, perhaps you are new to writing poetry, and are a little confused. Or maybe you have been writing poetry for a while, and want to improve. Hopefully this column will grant you insight into the world of poetry.
  • The meaning of life by me and mitchell, from Pian-Pain
    What is the meaning of life? many people have pondered this question, giving me and mitchell the answer to the meaning of life. Since so many people have spent their lives trying to find out the meaning, led us to the conclusion that the meaning of life is searching for the meaning of life. Does this not make perfect since though, for people who have searched, have died in vain searching for it.
  • Sneadhbhairdne by Lewis Turco & Tammy Knott, from Little Eagle
    Examples by me, further examples can be found by clicking the link to the column below.
  • The 'Dream Refrain' Poetry Form. by GlorianaFabian, from AlexandraHamilton
    A new, interesting, rhyme/meter form invented by myself.
  • Scoring Rubric by Tammy Knott, from Little Eagle
    I have developed a scoring rubric that I will be using on all contests I host from now on. I think it makes it more clear why a poem won and what my thoughts are on each poem.
  • The Sonnet Part I by Ceridwens Soul
    History and notes on the sonnet

    The Sonnet Part II --- http://allpoetry.com/column/show/2355393
  • the Quindeca by Griswold
    The basic form is 15 lines with a variable rhyme scheme.
  • the Bucket by Lucian Valcor
    some times I wonder how humans have lasted this long when i look at all the things going on in the world at this time right now from greed to government control to the war's and religion disagreements from the east to the west if we have always been this ignorant as a whole how is it we have all lasted this long ,

    It all started today when i was out front watering my plants in the front yard so they don't cook ( since I live in southern california and it is a 105 today ) I lite a cigarette haven't had one in 4 days i figured i lasted that long i deserved one
  • The Moroccan special ghosts by kamal Bechara
  • ~Science vs. Jesus~ by Author Unknown (if you know, please tell me who wrote this), from SunDew
    This is the attempt of an atheist teacher to put Christian students down in front of the whole class. To disprove Christ.

    I do not know whether it's true or made up, but I feel that it's a very good story to keep in mind.
  • Barack Obama by Dark Geometry
    I'd like to know if anyone feels the same.
  • YouTube Atheism Made Me Go To Church by Haley Mary, from HaleyMary
  • Write a Vaughanet by ea
    The Vaughanet is a variation of the sonnet that makes some use of slant rhyme and whose main innovation is having the heroic couplet early in the poem, after the first quatrain.
  • Help/Hot Lines for Support by kareneisenlord
  • Growning up by Binkyball, from Binkyball
    This poem is a life poem
    It tells you one day every body grows up.
    so don't be afriad to grow up it is just a way of life.
  • Monkey Tiger Mom! by Kathleen a Nazarene
    Surrogate Monkey Mom to tiger cubs! Amazing tale...wish I could show you all the pix I've got.
  • Graduation Speech and Poem... by ME.., from Ademon
    To anyone that reads this I want to make people cry and go wow.... This is the speech that I'm currently working on for July 1st Graduation Ceremony... If you have insight on the poem or speech it self please let me know. Spelling/Grammar are not correct in this yet...
  • Bipolar Disorder by Main Resource - GSC Home Studies and my own research., from kareneisenlord
  • Tanka, haiku, Senyru practice by Draig aine
    a place for member of Lovers of Oriental art and Haiku, Tanka and Senyru groups can post and develop their writing we can help each other grow by writing and commenting or writing off each others posts, to late tonight for more,feel free to start adding posts and learning from each other

    this is a link to Myron's Essay on Haiku, well worth the read

    http://www.writinghood.com/Style/How-To/The-Truth-About-Haiku.83389

    this is a link to my favorite Tanka poet Ki No Tsurayuki
    often when I want to study the poetic form I read one of his poems then write a response to him like a love letter, there are many other Eastern poets on Old Poetry
    I strongly suggest taking the time to read and learn from the master

    http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Ki_no_Tsurayuki

    this is another link to 100 gems a collection of Tanka the best way to learn is to read the masters and learn from the sublime words

    http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/index.htm

    21 Classical Tanka

    The 21 tanka here have been selected from three of 21 Japanese Imperial Anthologies: the 1st compiled in 905, the 8th in 1205 and the 9th in 1235. They were all written before Archbishop Walter de Grey started the massive rebuilding scheme around the year 1220 that ultimately led to the present York Minster.

    One of the female poets here, Ono no Komachi (ca. 850), flourished just before York was occupied by the Vikings. Monk Saigyo and Fujiwara no Shunzei were in their teens when Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132. The youngest among the poets here, Shunzei’s Daughter, might have seen the first Oxford college founded in 1249 if she had been in this part of the world.

    1
    Ono no Komachi
    a female poet, ca. 850

    Was it because I went to sleep
    Thinking always of him
    That I caught a glimpse of him?
    Had I known it a dream
    I would not have awoken.

    2

    Ono no Komachi
    a female poet, ca. 850

    When I cannot meet him
    On a moonless night
    Passion rises within me;
    A flame running through my breast
    Sets my heart on fire.
    3
    Ono no Komachi
    a female poet, ca. 850

    The colour of the cherry blossom
    Has faded in vain
    In the long rain
    While in idle thoughts
    I have spent my life.

    4
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    Waiting for one who does not come,
    Like the seaweed burnt for salt
    In the evening calm
    At Matsuho Bay
    My body is smouldering

    5

    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    The path at the foot of the mountain
    Through which the one I wait for wends his way
    Must by now be blocked.
    For, on the cedar by the eaves
    The snow is heavy.

    6
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    The black hair through which
    I used to run my hand for her;
    Now strand by strand
    it rises before my mind
    When I lie down alone.

    7
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    As the floating bridge
    Of my spring night dream
    Breaks
    A bank of clouds parts from the peak
    In the dawn sky.

    8
    Fujiwara no Shunzei
    1114 – 1204

    In unbearable longing
    I look at the sky
    Over your dwelling.
    The spring rain falls,
    Sifted through the haze.

    9
    Fujiwara no Shunzei
    1114 – 1204

    To one who rarely comes here
    The wind through the pines
    Sounds sad at night time.
    Does she hear it always
    Beneath the moss?

    10
    Princess Shikishi
    1149 – 1201

    Deep in the mountains
    The pine branch door
    Does not feel the coming of spring:
    Only the slow dropping of gems
    From the melting snow.

    11
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    On their way home,
    On the wings of wild geese
    That have drooped
    In the turbulent frosty skies,
    The spring rain falls.

    12
    Monk Jakuren
    1139? – 1202

    As spring passes
    I do not know
    Where its harbour will be:
    A brushwood barge on the River Uji
    Falling into the haze.

    13
    Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
    1169 – 1206

    The oak forest:
    Have the dewdrops from the leaves, too,
    Changed their colours?
    In the grasses beneath the trees
    Autumn has deepened.

    14
    Monk Jakuren
    1139? – 1202

    The rough winds of autumn
    Have laid low the grasses
    Where the stag had his bed.
    From deep in the mountain
    Comes his cry.

    15
    Monk Saigyo
    1118 – 1190

    Cricket,
    Are you getting weak
    As the autumn nights grow cold?
    Your cry sounds faint
    And becomes more distant.

    16
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    The autumn wind blows
    The traveler’s sleeves inside-out.
    The lonely evening sun shines
    On a wooden bridge
    Clinging to the mountainside.

    17
    Monk Jakuren
    1139? – 1202

    The drops from sudden showers
    On the leaves of cedar
    Are not yet dry
    As mists rise through them;
    An autumn evening.

    18
    Shunzei’s Daughter
    171? – 1254

    I cannot expect a visitor now.
    Autumn has come
    Bringing blustering storms,
    The grassy path to the house
    Buried under dead leaves.

    19
    Fujiwara no Teika
    1162 – 1241

    There is not even shelter
    To rein in my horse
    To shake the snow off my sleeves.
    Around the Sano Crossing
    On this snowy evening.

    20
    Princess Shikishi
    1149 – 1201

    Broken by the sound of the wind
    That plays on the bamboo leaves
    Near the window
    A dream even shorter
    Than my fleeting sleep.

    21
    Monk Saigyo
    1118 – 1190

    Sending my soul away
    To where the moon has sunk
    Behind the mountain,
    What shall I do with my body
    Left in the darkness?

    The 21 poems have been selected and newly translated into English by

    Dr Hisashi Nakamura, York St John College.

  • Sonnet Forms: Shadow Sonnet by Ceridwens Soul
    The Sonnet and Sonnet Variations.



    Resources:

    Amera M. Anderson
    Lewis Turco
    Shadow Poetry

    Advisor:

    Tia Andrews PhD. MA.
  • 12 Comandments of Xast by Xast McCole (1982-2009), from LadyWolf
    12 Rule to Live by.
    Xast called his friends that followed these rules his "cult" even though he didnt really have a cult. He was a very good man who LOVED and loved anyone and everything. He truly was an Angel. For no one person could hold so much love for the world and not be an Angel. He was a monument for us all to live by, even when he came across people who didnt like him or down right hated him, he still loved them and treated them with respect. I just wanted to share with the world his rules he tried his damnedest to live by and install in others. Here is his Rules to live by.

    Also this is for those who knew Xast. Remember!!! You are not fully clean until you are Xast-fully clean!
  • Pen and Brush ~ weekly column on Art and Poetry by Ariosto II.
    Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

    I thought it was time to start a column. One with pretty pictures and poems.
    Art and Poetry, go hand in hand. Images inspire words and words inspire
    images, it never fails
  • The Differences between Poems, Prose and Free Verse by Definitions taken from online dictionary, from Griswold
    Do you write Poems, prose or free verse?
  • Stereotyping is wrong! by Written by anyone and everyone, from Andiness
    I've only got this in a column because it's too big for my page but I'm extremely aginast stereo typing! The way this works, is you copy and paste it somewhere AND THEN ADD TO IT!!! No one ever remembers to add to it!
  • Parents today by Naughtygrlred
  • Sonnet Forms: Echo Sonnet by Ceridwens Soul
    The Sonnet and Sonnet Variations

    Advisors:

    Tia Andrews
    Jeff Green
  • Freyjan Form by Hetha
    This is my very first created form. I call it 'Freyjan' form. Please try it out, and tell me what you think.~Hetha
  • Write a Wreath by ea
    Write a wreath using this 17th century poem by the Welsh poet George Herbert as inspiration.