Form Poem Contest

Reality
here, now
being, becoming, living
support, transformation, logic, tests
contemplating, imitating, explaining
simplistic, reductive
model

I will give a little more time to see if I can get a few more takers

Well it looks like you are it YesNo. Great poem all the same, and deserving of a win.

Thanks, Dark Muse!

The next form will be a limerick.

Deadline: about Oct 15th

There was a haunted house in Berlin
With a poltergeist dwelling therein
No one stayed more than one night
Their hair turned gray from fright
As the shadowman knocked them end over end

Since there is only one entry so far, I will extend the deadline for another week until the end of October.

I actually wrote one
That was good fun
But I destroyed
It, making it void.
Then I wrote this one.

Contest is over! Thanks for the entries!

Pendragon: I'll have to remember to avoid staying at haunted houses.

North Star: Nice perspective on revision.

The winner is Pendragon!

Congratulations!

Thank you.

My favorite poetry form is the villanelle. If you don't know the format, you can find it here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/...orm-villanelle

End of contest two weeks from today. Good luck!

A working daydream makes the body light
But when we feel abandoned by the flame
A teasing nightmare trades our joy for fright.

Those happy seem enhaloed by what’s bright
Forgetting guilt and other modes of shame.
A working daydream makes the body light.

Remembering could turn straight-jackets tight
And squeeze out hope replacing it with blame.
A teasing nightmare trades our joy for fright.

Then freedom twists us loose. It’s right
To trust that life is something we can tame?
A working daydream makes the body light

Defeat then binds us foolishly in night
Where demons and the angels look the same.
A teasing nightmare trades our joy for fright.

As gifts it makes no sense to think of flight.
We serve and trust the giver has a name
Though working daydreams make the body light
And teasing nightmares trade that joy for fright.

Moonlight Lover

We danced in moonlight
beneath a November rain
your winter eyes shine bright

Upon your lips my heart takes flight
I only want you to hold me again
we danced in moonlight

We have shadows still to fight
my sorrows lie at your feet slain
your winter eyes shine bright

Your meerest touch holds me tight
our fingers weave an unbreakable chain
we danced in moonlight.

As dawn breaks you fade from sight
lost memories I struggle to regain
your winter eyes shine bright

Please don't whisper Goodnight
dreams vanishing on a passing train
we danced in moonlight
your winter eyes shine bright

YesNo I like your style, but I'm afraid that Dark Muse hit it out of the park! You're up, Dark Muse!

Congratulations Dark Muse ! Well done both of you.

I had one almost ready... I'll post to my website when done. This form is hard for me for some raison.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Thank you! I will get a new form for you all soon.

I am partial to Japanese styles of poetry so your next poem is a Sedoka

The Sedoka is a poem made up of a pair of katauta (which is a three lined poem). The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem following a syllable count of:

5/7/7
5/7/7

Traditionally the two katauta's address the same subject from two different perspectives.

Examples:

Vibrance of Spring

The breath of warm wind
a gentle voice in my soul
now Persephone rises.

Flowers bloom again
beneath fingers of the rain
feel the vibrations of life.

Spiral

Life; twisting; turning
the pattern replicated
immortal and eternal

Winds around itself
spinning from the inside out
revisited; outside in.

Because some people might be busy in the upcoming weeks I will give an slightly extended deadline of Dec. 10