My Poetic Latticework

Form: Ode
An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person, place, or thing.

Number of Lines:
Odes are traditionally long. However, I am asking for a minimum of only 12 lines.

Rhyme Scheme:
Although a rhyming structure is not an essential component of an ode,
most traditional odes do rhyme, and including rhyme in your ode can be a fun challenge.

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any person, place, or thing..


Example:

Ode To A Butterfly

Oh! the butterfly
he flutters all day,
he roams the skies
with some delay.

He alights on trees, fences
and roses,
to whatever attracts his fancy
he will do his poses.

He's up, he's down
he dances with the breeze,
he comes, he goes
and does it with ease.

As I watch him
in pure delight,
I begin to wonder
if he knows his own plight.

For soon spring turns into summer
then summer flies quickly by,
the sun setting early
into a darkening sky.

The butterfly is gone now
replaced by snow,
but he will be back again
to put on his beautiful show.

Copyright © 2001 Lorraine Nisbet

Form: Little Willies or Ruthless Rhymes

Number of Lines: 4 lines

Rules:
1. satirical
2. accentual, with 4 stresses per line.
3. a tetrastich. A complete poem in 4 lines.
4. composed with a surprise last line and a touch of sadistic humor.
5. rhymed
6. light verse.
7. often composed using Little Willie and his family as the brunt of the joke.

Meter:
Rhymed
Accentual, with 4 stresses per line.

Rhyme Scheme:
aabb
or
abab

Choices for the poets to make this week:
OPTIONAL: It's Halloween week, try that as your theme!

Examples:

Willie with a thirst for gore
nailed his sister to the door
Mother said with humor quaint
"Careful, Willie, don't scratch the paint."
~ Anonymous


The Colonel brought Willie fame,
his contribution to the arts,
but whenever I hear the name
my thoughts turn to body parts.
~ Judi Van Gorder (AKA: Tinker )

20 lines composed for:
         A. "Invalid Item"  "Week 51 Form: Pseudotaph"  
         B. "Invalid Item"  "Invalid Post"  
         C. "Invalid Item"  using prompt "locust."
         D. "The Taboo Words Contest ~ On Hiatus"  with theme of isolation without using words: lonely, alone, isolate, boredom, friends

Photo used with permission of AngelOakTree.com

1. Angel Oak tour: https://www.angeloaktree.com/virtual-tour-video

2. Form: Trolaan

Number of Lines: 16 lines, 4 quatrains

Rules:
Each quatrain begins with the same letter and has the following rhyme scheme: abab

Starting with the second stanza you use the second letter of the first line of the first stanza to write the second each line beginning with that letter.

On the third stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the second stanza and write the third each line beginning with that letter.

On the fourth stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the third stanza and write the fourth each line beginning with that letter.

Rhyme Scheme:
abab

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Example:
Distraught Blessings

Desire the sound or hope,
deluding minds in darkness.
Daunting though its scope,
deluged now with the access.

Elope into the morrow,
envelope me with song.
Enclose me now in sorrow
easing against the throng.

Longing for succulent prospect,
laying waste to eager night,
Lopsided in neglect,
listless with delight.

Only now will I protest,
owning nothing less.
Opening now I detest,
one more time to bless….

Copyright © 2008 Valerie Peterson Brown

Form: Sweetbriar
Similar to Minuette. Invented by Viola Berg.

Number of Lines: 12 (2 sixains)


Rules:
Syllable count: 4-4-6-4-4-6 syllables per line
uses only one rhyme


Rhyme Scheme: xxaxxa xxaxxa


Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Example:

Poetry Handouts Saved Her Life For Angelina

Former student
gives me poem,
remembers my handouts
from long ago.
She wrote poem
in dining whereabouts.

She wrote verseat
moment’s notice,
recalls earlier bouts
with youth sadness.
Pen is freedom!
Poetry helped her doubts.

Form: Sidlak

Number of Lines: 5

Rules:
Fine lines with syllable counts of 3, 5, 7, 9 for the first 4 lines.
The fifth line presents the COLOR that portrays the whole poem or the feeling of the writer with no requirement regarding syllable count.

Rhyme Scheme:
n/a

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic/color .

Examples:

Summer Days
by Elsie Hagley

Summer days
Blue sky few white clouds
it’s time to be at the beach
Apply sun lotion so skin won’t burn
Bright red.


Yellow Sidlak
By Abigail Gronway

Run care-free
in the summer sun
dance among the buttercups
remember the days when you were young
Yellow

Form: Cherita
Cherita is the Malay word for "story" or "tale".

Number of Lines: 6

Rules:
A cherita consists of a one-line stanza, followed by a two-line stanza, and then finishing with a three-line stanza.

Rhyme Scheme:
none

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Examples:

his bedtime story

the never ending tales
of enchantment

now you see them
now you don’t
night fairies

Written by: ai li, co-creator of the form

after seeing you off

taking the path along
the canal

a rustle of
leaves
underfoot

Written by: Larry Kimmel, co-creator of the form

1. 16 lines in a double Tigerjade poem.

2. Notes on the Tigerjade form of poetry:
Form: Tigerjade
This form was created by Jacqueline Sturge

Number of Lines: 8
Any number of eight-line stanzas, all following the rhyming/syllable scheme.

Rules:
Syllable Count per line: 3-3-12-12-12-12-3-3

Rhyme Scheme:
a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d, e-e-f-f-g-g-h-h, etc.

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.


Example:
Choose a Treat (Tigerjade)

Please abide;
step inside.
The treats you offer are enticing, yummy, yet
your hands are full of goodies and your little pet.
Your fingernails are lovely, but that pot is black;
please set it down then come inside and scratch my back.
When you’re done
we’ll have fun.
Costume’s bold!
Are you cold?
I’ll warm you up in ways that you might contemplate,
and effortlessly, I think you’ll reciprocate.
I’ll scratch your back as well as anywhere you itch.
This night is Halloween – you know you can bewitch.
Please come in.
Let’s begin.

© Lawrencealot – October 28, 2014

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Form: Ravenfly
A poetry form created by Amanda J. Norton.

Number of Lines: 10 (a decastich)

Rules:
This is a rhyming poem and it has three stanzas: 2 quatrains and a couplet.
The line length is based on syllabic count as opposed to meter, but it could very easily lend itself to tetrameter for the quatrains and pentameter for the couplet.

Syllabic count: 8-7-8-7, 8-7-8-7, 10-10

Meter:
Optional

Rhyme Scheme:
abab cdcd ee

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Example:
Starry Night

The midnight sky was clear last night,
Full moon illumined the ground;
The heavens were a wondrous sight—
Sparkling stars shone all around.

I stood there gazing at the sky,
Entranced by their steadfastness;
A shooting star sailed quickly by,
But changed not heaven’s vastness.

Star-studded heavens like forever are—
My life as brief as that small shooting star.

Copyright © 2018 Abigail Gronway

Form: Zeno

Number of Lines: 10

Rules:
A 10-line verse form with a repeating syllable count of 8,4,2,1,4,2,1,4,2,1.

Rhyme Scheme:
The rhyme scheme is abcdefdghd.

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.

Example:

Nature’s Art Gallery
By J. Patrick Lewis

Wind’s paintbrush strokes in streaks the trees,
a miracle,
ages
old,
it knows without
being
told—
Novembering
maples
gold.
Traveling by Armchair
By J. Patrick Lewis