#closed form

1) Inspired by The Spiral

2) Inspired by NBC's Hannibal

3) Inspired by the Eye

I will admit, when I first took over the Writing Group, I wasn’t sure how the poetry forms were going to go over but the group members really seemed to like them. This poem form has lots of specifics. From Poets.org: The villanelle is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The rhyme pattern is A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2…

Joey, Ceramics, uses clay to create something out of the ordinary in "double-walled forms"

After making lots of vessels on your potters wheel it can begin to get sort of tunnel vision-esq. Maybe you sit down ready to make something new and no new ideas come to your head because you feel like you’ve at least tried a version of all the forms you can think of. Open forms, closed forms, bowls, cups, bottles, jars you name it.

One thing that might not be an obvious conclusion is that…

I do believe there’s something I should say,

And absolutely I must say it this way.

It may be harsh, it may be rude, but you

Can fuck right out of here and maybe screw

Yourself instead of ninety-nine percent

Who barely have one million or one cent.

We have to pay for school, educated,

As you like, but I can’t be so dedicated

To something that won’t pay off in the end,

We’ll always be in debt, my dear old friend.

See, in my dreams I move into the woods.

Sustain myself and growing my own food.

I keep the bees, their honey sweet and gold.

This is my life, cannot be bought or sold .

But, sadly this is science fiction,

And we have developed an addiction.

Your golden greed and power will prevail

Under your awesome reign we do all-hail.

You’ve made us slaves of our own liberty,

And live our lives in utter misery.

Despite what there is left to say, Fuck You,