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"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."
Gustave Flaubert
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Memorialize your Special Memories in Poetry
It was a day like any other. I had some time to relax and decided to roam the wide, wide world of the web. I was reading poetry to try to learn as much as I could and I happened upon a poet who directed me to a site called Stories.com.
That was eighteen years ago, and some of you may only know that site as Writing.com now. This month is my WDC birthday! November marks several special memory-making occasions for me. My WDC birthday, my wedding anniversary and that great family get-together: Thanksgiving.
Special memories have a sacred place in our hearts, but we can also memorialize them in poetry. So today I’d like to share some poetry forms that you can use to share your special memories.
Epithalamion/Epithalamium/Prothalamion/Prothalamium
Epithalamion/Epithalamium: Primarily for weddings with a focus on the bride and groom.
Prothalamion: More for marriage.
These are genre forms, which means that they can be combined with another poetry form that focuses on formatting rather than genre.
BRIEF HISTORY
Epithalamion/Epithalamium: Historically a poem that was sung.
Prothalamion/Prothalamium: Also sung, historically.
MUST HAVES
- Topic/theme: Weddings, marriage, brides, and grooms.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any number of stanzas, or length--unless following a form, then follow the format required for the form.
--Any rhyme--unless following a form, then follow the rhyme required for the form.
--Any meter--unless following a form, then follow the meter required for the form.
Genethliacum
Genethliacum: Honoring a birth.
This is a genre form, which means that it can be combined with another poetry form that focuses on formatting rather than genre.
MUST HAVES
- Topic/theme: birth, new life.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any number of stanzas, or length--unless following a form, then follow the format required for the form.
--Any rhyme--unless following a form, then follow the rhyme required for the form.
--Any meter--unless following a form, then follow the meter required for the form.
Memento
Form created by poet Emily Romano.
MUST HAVES
- Topic/theme: about a holiday or anniversary.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Two stanzas.
--Rhyme scheme: a, b, c, a, b, c
--Meter: 8 syllables, 6 syllables, 2 syllables, 8 syllables, 6 syllables, 2 syllables.
SOURCE NOTES:
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
http://www.dailyhaiga.org/contributors/18/romano-emily
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/memento.html
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Theme: Epithalamium, Memento and other poems about memories.
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From: Monty 
Comment: Loved that little Terzanelle you wrote. Thank you for a fine N/L
Aw, thank you so much for saying so Monty!
From: JCosmos 
Comment: my attempt at a terzanelle
Coffee Terzanalle
coffee drink of gods
coffee drink of gods
coffee No drink for dogs
I drink my hot coffee
deep in cosmic thought
I drink my hot coffee
coffee damn hot as hell
hot as hell itself
hot as hell itself
sweet as heaven itself
with bitter after taste
sweet heaven itself
invented by satan in hell
to keep Satan Cool
Invented by satan in hell
coffee made in heaven
a drink for the gods
coffee made in heaven
a drink for the gods
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