#poetry forms

At dVerse Grace is hosting Poetry Forms with an invitation to write a complaint – Complaint, sometimes called Jeremiad is a genre of poetry that carries a theme of bitter sorrow. The rhetoric is “rails against cruel fate” . By the Middle Ages there were loosely 3 types of Complaint: satirical poems exposing evil in the world. dididactic verse focusing on the decline of someone “great”…

National Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month and I came up with a challenge for April. I put links to some of the poetry forms. If you decide to participate, please tag me so I can read what you come up with. An April Fool’s Day Limerick Word Prompt Wednesday: Renewal. Any style of poetry.  Acrostic Free verse Friday! Monostich Poem Share a poet friend’s blog or poem Micropoetry…

to my absolute horror and delight i realized that the phenomenon of the so called "small-pie-poems" (i will make sense of this in a bit) is specific to the russian language! so strap in for a quick explanation of this little wonder

they are called "pirozhki," which is literally "small pies," a popular eastern european baked good with filling. pirozhki poems are just like that: tiny and amusing. they tend to contain some kind of joke or ironic observation

from the formal standpoint, pirozhok consists of four lines and is written in iambic meter, usually with little to no rhyme or any kind of punctuation. the last line can be cut shorter to add to the comedic effect or have different foot

under the cut there are some examples of pirozhki from my third year of uni when my translation prof made us translate a bunch of them for our finals, enjoy

Equinox by Maria L. Berg 2024 Today is Haibun Monday at dVerse Poets Pub and Frank Tassone inspires us to write about the equinox using the Haibun form. Equinox The sun bursts through the clouds when I’m looking for shade. Sweat drips down my jawline when all I want is to wrap myself in my comfy new sweatshirt. Autumn fell so quickly, yet summer teases, not wanting to change out of her party…

Poetry Prompt Take the song u hate the most and turn it into a haiku Sunday Suggestions Okay as a prompt… This is a hard one. Haiku is very specific. It has 5 syllables then 7 syllables and lastly 5 syllables and it must have a natural reference… Boy that new intern has set up a challenge!

Poetry Prompt Take the song u hate the most and turn it into a haiku Sunday Suggestions Okay as a prompt… This is a hard one. Haiku is very specific. It has 5 syllables then 7 syllables and lastly 5 syllables and it must have a natural reference… Boy that new intern has set up a challenge!