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Epulaeryu: poetry for your palate.
The epulaeryu is a syllabic poetry form about food, specifically about a meal or feast. The name is a blending of the Latin and Asian languages, and means feast form or style. In the chef, er, poet's own description, "the poetic form Epulaeryu is about delicious, tasty, flavorful, appetizing, savory, succulent meals, or feast" (Black - Essay).
BRIEF HISTORY
Epulaeryu was cooked up in 2004 by poet Samuel Black. World travel inspired the form's ingredients, and a love of food and a military background helped finish the plating and added the garnish. In his essay on the form he shares, "having served in the army for over twenty years, I have had the opportunity to visit many places in Europe, Asia, and America. During those trips I have had some of the most delicious meals" (Black - Essay).
MUST HAVES
--As mentioned above, it must be about a meal or feast. If you are utilizing your poetic license to deviate from this, then it should at least reference a feast, meal or food.
--The last line is a one-syllable descriptive exclamation (or the the first line if reversed).
--Must have seven lines.
--Must have the following syllable count: 7/5/7/5/5/3/1 or can be reversed and then 1/3/5/5/7/5/7 is used.
The form's inventor wrote about crafting the form as 7/5/7/5/5/3/1. "This is like a topic sentence, and it is concluded with one syllable in the last line. This line [shows] an emotional feeling about the meal." He also eloquently shared how he saw the form if the poet chooses to reverse the syllable count. "It may be read from the bottom up like an inverted pyramid, such as: 1/3/5/5/7/5/7. This is possible when starting with the emotional exclamation point and work upward...one should be able to unravel the taste and delicacy of the poem" (5/24/10 email).
COULD HAVES or What's The Poet's Choice In All This?
--Rhyme or not, it's up to the poet.
--Use a particular meter (while keeping to either syllable count above) or have no particular meter.
OF NOTE
--Joseph Spence (aka Samuel Black) also invented the Seventh Heaven poetry form (Spence).
Source Notes:
Black, Samuel. "Definition of Epulaeryu Poetry - Part One." TimBookTu. N.p., 2006. Web. 20 May 2010. <http://www.timbooktu.com/spence/epulaery.htm>.
Black, Samuel. "Samuel Black." TimBookTu. N.p., 2006. Web. 20 May 2010. <http://www.timbooktu.com/spence/spence.htm>.
Spence, Joseph. TheAwakenedOnePoetics. N.p., 2010. Web. 24 May 2010. <http://www.theawakenedonepoetics.com/>.
Red Writing Hood. E-mail to Joseph S. Spence, Sr. Date e-mailed: 24 May. 2010.
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Comment: 4/29/10 newsletter - THANK YOU so much for providing all those links useful for poetry. I love rhyming poetry, but sometimes I just can't come up with the right words and i don't have a rhyming dictionary handy. The links you just provided will help any poet!
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Comment: Hi Red, thanks for the article about online poetry tools. They are a big help. I love the Poetry newsletter. I think it is always well done. Thanks for including my poem in the newsletter.
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Comment By: Christine Cassello
Comment: Thank you for sharing these websites with us. I know I will be checking them out. You wrote about finding the right word but I have what I feel is a great rhyming poem with a timely message and I can't find a title for it. I am also having a problem deciding where to break up sections. The poem was much easier to write than these touches.
Thank you all for your wonderful comments and online tool suggestions. Keep 'em coming!
Christine Cassello , a couple of suggestions to help you find a title: send a link to your poem to me through the comments section and I can ask the newsletter readers to see if they have any title ideas for you or run a site-wide contest for title ideas. Either of these would help you in two ways. 1) Help you find a title for your poem, and 2) give you an idea of how others come up with titles, perhaps helping you come up with titles in the future.
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