Archive for Form

1. SWAN SONG (FIBONACCI) • by hema 13 Comments

   Lass moans- her cries can be heard even in the grave. Spurned after his lust’s gone away dried, drained, devoured, discarded now, as scum out like scurf Scuffle on. Hapless end- Death. Hema is a postgraduate in commerce and library science, works as a school teacher, and is interested in reading and writing verses. She [...]

   FIB
   
   

2. UNDERSEA PANTOUM • by John Brooke 11 Comments

   Surfing waves above roll over and over and over me Minnows mass then act as one weaving living drapes Quick silver rippling ceiling shows where air is sea Shields schools of psychedelic show stopper shapes Million minnows act fast as one weaving living drapes Above the bottom where oysters dream in their bed Fin vast [...]

   Inspirational, Pantoum
   
   

3. THIS MYSTERIOUS GARDEN EARTH • by Martin A. Ramos 6 Comments

   this mysterious garden earth where liars lurk, a silent crew is not the country of my birth no longer this my house of mirth this land i love and thought i knew this mysterious garden earth acting with madness and with stealth where lies are spoken of as truth is not the country of my [...]

   Other, Villanelle
   
   

4. WIDOW • by Kent Reed 3 Comments

   darkness at the door a soul in its path asks whom shall I embrace Kent Reed calls the Twin Cities home where he lives with his wife and adult children. Primarily a scientific writer, Kent is a new haiku poet, his work reflecting a relation to the land and the human experience.

   Japanese Short Forms
   
   

5. FIBONACCI PAEAN • by William Dexter Wade 17 Comments

     I stand amazed beside my youngest granddaughter and step back to look up at her fourteen very short years after I felt her first breaths  resting so very small in  the arms of a grandfather who did not dream that one day soon she would jump higher than he stands, watching, filled with pride [...]

   FIB, Other
   
   

6. DREAMWEAVERS • by Lindsey Duncan 9 Comments

   Dreamcatchers hear the tales of fate and chance, Of glimmers found by sleeping mind; Dreamweavers spin the thread of this night’s dance.   From fancy’s flight comes matter of a stronger kind: Nightmares woven into subtle twine Of glimmers found by sleeping mind.   Then thread by thread and line by line, A tapestry unveils [...]

   Fantasy, Terzanelle
   
   

7. (UNTITLED HAIBUN) • by Catherine Edmunds 21 Comments

     First comes vermillion – anger of loss. Next – cruelty of cadmium yellow. I knock back the winter with ultramarine, my punishment over. The weft of the canvas is burnt out; a spring may emerge, a weathered stone fall. Somewhere within this jumble of colour lies an intimate landscape; somewhere there’s a Prussian blue [...]

   Japanese Short Forms, Other
   
   

8. WAKING NED DIVINE ON THE ISLE OF MAN – A TERZA RIMA • by Joan 14 Comments

         We can’t resist the urge to shout aloud when well-known places flit across the screen, familiar faces spotted in the crowd of extras with the actors in between. We’re so superior because we know that Harry Kelly’s Cottage can be seen by driving to Niarbyl, even though you’re now supposed to park [...]

   Form, Other
   
   

9. THE HOUR GLASS • by Jamie Elliott Keith 10 Comments

     Once animal matter or sea creature’s crusty home These tiny bits of geological history Spill through my grasp so quickly I cannot count the number How swiftly they slide I snatch I clutch They slip away Pouring past the slick sides Ground down by water, wind and time Over humanly transmuted curves of themselves [...]

   Concrete, Literary
   
   

10. WHITE CRYSTAL WINTER • by Rebecca Colby 8 Comments

      sugary snowflakes dissolve in hot cups of tea white crystal winter   Rebecca Colby likes the idea of being a writer but doesn’t put pen to paper as often as she should. She travelled the world as a tour director before settling in England—a country where she knew the weather would force her inside [...]

    Japanese Short Forms, Nature
    
    

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