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Tapa, Landay or Misr'a is folk poetry, a Pashto couplet. Landay means "short" in Pashto. The Tapa or Landay is mostly found in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is called Tapa in the more eastern Pashto dialects.

The elements of the Tapa or landay are:

1. A distich. a poem in 2 lines.
2. syllabic, each line 9 to13 syllables.
3. unrhymed.
In pashtun the end syllabes are ina . u͂na . a͂na or a͂ma.

My lover is returning after long stay far away,
I write a tapa to tell him how much he was missed.
~~jvg

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1. 3 lines, 26 words, prompt: coffee

2. The Triveni was introduced in the 1960's by Gulzar, poet and Oscar award-winning lyricist who won for best original song in Slum Dog Millionaire. The form is a popular 3 line verse mostly written in Urdu or Hindi. It uses the sher of the ghazal and adds a third line with a totally different perspective. Gulzar likens it to two Indian rivers that join and under which a third river flows. “I called it triveni because the first two lines meet like the Ganga and the Yamuna and complete a thought, it forms a poem on its own. But beneath the two there is the subterranean flow of another, the Saraswati. Hidden. Not visible to the eye. The triveni intends to reveal the Saraswati. The third line, lost in the first two, either changes the meaning of the poem altogether, its focus, or gives it a surprising twist, in the process creating an entirely new poem altogether."

The elements of the Triveni are:

1. a poem in 3 lines made up of a complete couplet (a ghazal sher, a two line poem in itself.) followed by a single line. {in
2 written in lines of equal length.
3. end words are unrhymed. However, in a ghazal sher the main rhyme is found somewhere near the end of L1 and is repeated somewhere in the last half of L2.
4. If the Triveni is written in a series, each Triveni should be rlated but be able to stand alone. When written in a series, the end word of L2 of the sher is repeated in refrain, as the end word of L2 in subsequent Trivenis.
5. written with L3 a different perspective of the same theme of L1 & L2.


The everyday routine of the office hums on and on,
questions, quotes, sales, and claims spawn my day.

Poetic lines flash on my laptop screen to don my day.
~~Judi Van Gorder

(Note: I chose to treat the 3rd line of my poem as if it were L2 of a second ghazal couplet. This was my choice, adding the main rhyme and refrain word to L3 is not a required element of the form.)

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1. 10 lines/47 words
2. Prompt: coffee

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1. 15 lines/39 words
2. Written in the basic form of the Cardinal Stanza ( http://thepoetsgarret.com/2018Challenge/form28.html ) with two stanzas chopped off in order to meet contest restrictions.
3. Prompt: Coffee

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1. 13 lines of Free Verse poetry written for August, 2020, round of "Stormy's poetry newsletter & contest"  using words: lighthouse, hope, seagull, waves, sand, power, crashing, clouds.

2. Barquentine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barquentine

3. Widow's watch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow%27s_walk

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The Sha'ir or Syair or Sjair from 17th century, Malysia, is a poetic narrative that not only tells the human story, often in romantic adventures but also expounds on local conflict and gives religious instruction. Because this form originated in a maritime trading center, the characters are often cosmopolitan. Shorter versions are known to use birds, fish, animals in allegory. The form originally performed, presenters would sit before an audience with an open book and sing the verses out loud.

The elements of the Sha'ir are:
1. metric, accentual, folk meter often using 4 stresses with the beginning syllable stressed and ending in an unstressed syllable. More important than stress is, all lines should be similar length.
2. stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
3. mono-rhymed. aaaa bbbb cccc etc
4. used to communicate romantic adventures, local conflicts, allegories and religious instructions.

~ Judi Van Gorder

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1. 15 lines.
2. For those not familiar with the Rondeau form of poetry, a description and examples can be found at the following link:
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/rondeau.html

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Mondo poems are often very brief collaborative affairs that present a question and answer in the style of trying to glean meaning from nature. Mondos can be as short as a one-liner or as long as two 5-7-7 syllable stanzas (the first stanza presenting the question; the second the answer).

For this round, your poems need to follow the two stanza rule, please.

So, in summary,

2 stanzas
syllable counts for each stanza: 5-7-7
nature related

Example:

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by Robert Lee Brewer

why do winter stars
shine brighter than summer stars
and why do i notice them?

i can't hear them laugh,
but i remember the way
they once entered the darkness.

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1. 12 lines
2. Inspired by Countess Elizabeth Bathory, aka "Blood Countess": https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exp...

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One of the gems found in Viola Berg's Pathways for the Poet, the Star Sevlin was devised by Lillian Mathilda Svenson to form a star when centered on the page. The structure consists of seven lines with syllable counts of 4, 6, 8, 6, 8, 6, 4, and a rhyme scheme of abbcaca, as demonstrated in the following links:

http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1001-visual-verse-or-shape-verse/#starsevl...

https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/tag/7-lines/

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