Day 123:

Oct 31-in recognition for this day, a special poem. Title: Halloween

The day has come

For ghouls to run

For spooks to sigh

And witches fly.

All Hallows Eve.

The spirits leave

For spooky spots

Candy? There’s lots!

won’t you have some?

Play til the sun.

A thrilling scene,

It’s Halloween!

Day 122:
Oct 30-Canzone, Italian, stanzas written in 10- to 12-syllable lines without a refrain. Used 3 ways: tragic, comic, & elegiac.It is typically 8-20 lines. 5-6 stanzas. closing stanza has fewer lines.(1/2) 5-6 lines, called an envoy, a closing statement. Mostly uses couplets. No real rhyme scheme. Typically 11 syllable lines. Dante used his own: Abbcdeeccffcgg. Other poets use 5 keywords with 12 line stanzas and a 5 line envoy. stanza 1: ABAACAADDAEE
    stanza 2: EAEEBEECCEDD
    stanza 3: DEDDADDBBDCC
    stanza 4: CDCCECCAACBB
    stanza 5: BCBBDBBEEBAA
    envoi:      ABCDE

The following poem is written in this last format. Title: Playing Games(#11, 781)

The sun and sky, teasing the small clouds at play,

Ephemeral as the mist, they do not stay
The children call and sing short songs as they play.
The deer and livestock call each other to play.
I wonder if nature’s always been this way?
Are we so grownup, we forget then to play?
There are many ways, manners, and rules to play.
Some wish for night, others play while it is day.
Is it not better to see with light of day?
The warmth of good feelings when in sunshine’s ray
Or do you prefer playing in flashlight’s ray?
Inside or outside? Where do you like to play?
 
War games can use swords, guns, or a deadly ray
While serious business, it is still called play.
Sneak around at nighttime or in daylight’s ray
On the streets? Beware a car’s head lighted ray
When running at night, the sidewalk please to stay.
Be aware of dangers lit by sunbeam’s ray
Or cast in shadow revealed in moonbeam’s ray.
If exercise is not something of your way
Then intellectual games may be your way.
Whether outside or safely lit in lamp’s ray
You can have a truly enjoyable day
Applying the principles of a play day.
 
What game can then be played on a sunny day?
Are there games for winter’s glow or summer’s ray?
Are there games for a cloudy or rainy day?
Are there games designed for night and for the day?
Yes, there are many different games to play.
You can make some up even during the day.
The games people play show up every day.
The rules may sometimes change, they don’t have to stay
But the principles behind the rules must stay.
Some games can be played at night or in the day
Some games can only be played in just one way
While other games can be played in any way.
 
So many games, so choose and have it your way
Play your game now and have a most pleasant day.
Some break the rules because cheating is their way
For others though, it’s truly not the best way.
They hold up as a lamp the light of truth’s ray.
The games they play show there is only one way
For their games they then see it is the right way.
People have lost count of all the games to play
There are too many. You must choose which to play.
Which ones to play? Go on and choose it your way.
When winning that may be the best time to stay
Unless you want ot have your friendship to stay.
 
Some game don’t matter for the friendship to stay
Some games so important, they get in the way
Of friendship. Don’t play if you want them to stay.
Some are true friends, no matter the game, they’ll stay
Some games can be played until the break of day
Some games last longer. So how long can you stay?
If you don’t mind staying the night, you can stay.
After playing all night  til the dawning ray
You may not feel like being in sunshine’s ray.
You may want to have a room that you can stay
To rest in, so you can be ready to play
There is more to life than work or even play.
 
In Heaven, will there be enough games to play?
After all, forever’s a long time to stay.
Perhaps the games are designed a special way
So that they can last for eternity’s day.
Joyful playtime in God’s Heavenly Ray.

Day 121:

Oct 29-Canzonette Prime, Canzonette with ababcbcB, dbdbebeB. Title: Immortality calls

The stars, they want to be free, can’t you see?

The heavens groan, they are waiting for the day.

Entropy burdening the soul, can it flee?

Not until eternity rings itself away

The chimes shimmer, knowing it won’t be long.

The rainbow washes away the color gray

Music waits for the time to burst into song.

Immortality calls, “Souls, choose the right way!”

Temporal things won’t last long, soon they’ll take wing

The clash of thunder, enter into the fray!

Immortal weapons, they are what you should bring,

The armor of righteousness wear as you pray

For victory against the foe, who has lost

For God has won, now heaven’s here, now go play

In clouds, and rejoice in Him who paid the cost.

Immortality calls, “Souls, choose the right way!”

Day 120:

Oct 28-Hainteny, from Madagascar, uses metaphor, and allusion. Telescoping metaphors. Sometimes uses 2 Malagasy styles: Ohabolana(proverbs) and Kabary(public discourse) My first attempt. Title:There Are.

There are many animals

But the humble sheep is the most useful

There are many lands

But mine is the freest, more flocks, golden fruit

There are many loves

But God’s love is purest, a nurturing shepherd.

Day 119:

Oct 27-Canzonetta, short form Canzone variation at least. 2 phrases of 2 quatrains(octaves), ababcdcD, efefgdgD, D is rhymed Refrain. No fixed meter or line length.

A Canzonetta poem is a short form.

Not a Canzone, Sestina, or sonnet.

Two phrases of eight lines fighting out the storm.

Italian born and ancient as a bonnet.

No strict meter, or line length so take your time.

Start with ababcdc your way

Then add a refrain ending to make it rhyme.

A Canzonetta poem can make your day!

The next phase is to make another cool phrase

With efefgdg as lines to go

As you work on this, it might seem like a maze

But don’t forget the refrain to end the show.

You are almost through, isn’t it exciting?

Try your own hand in the Canzonetta fray

Maybe your attempt may be more inviting.

A Canzonetta poem can make your day!

Day 118;

Oct 26-Wayra, South American, phrase: 5,7,7,6,8 syllables. Sometimes uses a specific consonant or vowel expression.

 A wayra poem

Has five lines working for it.

Five, seven, seven, six, eight

Syllables. Rarely rhymes.

It comes from South America.

Day 117:

Oct 25-Glosa, Spain, 2 parts. Texte/Cabeza, & Glosa, explanation of Texte. 1 stanza per line of Texte. Quatrain stanzas then  repeat last line of Texte for a 5 line phrase, Texte typically from another poem.

Typically abab is the Texte, used as ABCD for the glose portion, acacA, bdbdB aeaeC cfcfD.

Title: Life

What’s life without knowing one can die?

How does one know pleasure without pain?

Contrasts weigh in, the truth with a lie

There is sunshine and also the rain.

One is born, then dies, on this rely

Mortality belongs to all

So what can one do? Do we just sigh?

Remember the words and heed the call

What’s life without knowing one can die?

Life moves on, lumbering like a train

To live is to suffer, that is seen

Take pleasure in what does remain

Learn wisdom, survive with wit still keen

How does one know pleasure without pain?

Eternity calls, behold its’ cry

The soul is not for this earth alone

Destruction beckons, this fact imply

Prepare for the future, from sin atone

Contrasts weigh in, the truth with a lie

Balance in life, without it’s insane

Observe both good and bad, health and ill

Love and hate, chaos, order remain

Make the best in the moments you fill

There is sunshine and also the rain.

Day 116:

Oct 24-Decima, spanish, 6-10 syllables, typically 8, iambic, abbaaccddc.

A Decima is, yes, a song

Tis writ from Spain so long ago

Iambic meter plays it so.

So count the syllables. How long?

From six to ten, you can’t go wrong.

Musicians, Spanish shout and sing

The instruments do help them bring

A rhythm special, tap your toes!

Then write a Decima, then close

By taking poetry to wing.

Day 115:

Day 114 had a riddle. Did you figure it out? If not, here's the answer:thunder & lightning

Oct 23-Rhyming Sestina, 1,3,5 a, 2,4,6 b so stanzas are: 123456, 614325, 561432, 256143, 321654, 432561, 14/23/56. Title: A Love So True

A love so true that what you are to me.

A precious gift if only you could see
How wonderful your love, it set me free.
No matter what transpires, still I’ll love you.
An endless love for you, here’s what I’ll do,
I’ll faithfully be loyal and be true.
 
Oh, how could anything be always true?
If you can understand, please stay with me.
For having you with me, my love for you
Is stronger than a lion roaming free.
It’s power conquers all, just wait and see,
And then you’ll know just what your love can do.
 
A question asked, now what else can I do
To show you that my love for you is true?
Just what it is that you desire from me?
I want to understand you. All that’s you.
Your wants, your needs, your thoughts, just let it free
So I can know your heart, so I can see.
 
My love for you is pure. Just wait and see.
For anything you wish, just ask, I’ll do.
For loving you is easy, this is true
Despite occasionally tiffed at me
I know deep down the love inside of you
Still grows. Don’t fret my dear, my love is free.
 
Sometimes I sense you wish to be set free
For fear this love will fetter you, but see
How willingly you made a slave of me.
Enslaved by love, I crave it still, tis true
With just a look, you know not what you do
To trap me willingly in loving you.
 
I’ll stay as long as I can be with you.
I’ll never want to be from you set free.
Forever will I love you, you will see,
In spite of fears, or angered spats, I do,
Love is stronger than life’s storms, it’s true.
Just say you’ll always ever be with me.
 
Our love will last forever, me and you.
As you can see, my love for you is free.
I do love you, and this you know it’s true.

Day 114:

Oct 22-Tonka Puzzle, following the form of a Tonka: 57577.

Before you hear it

It has already reached you
The night becomes day
Personified power strikes
Now can you guess this puzzle?

Day 113:

Another 13. well to prove I'm not superstitious, here's a special treat.

Oct 21-Haiku Riddle, try to solve this haiku.

Superstitious fear

Ebony jaywalking beast
Now solve this riddle.(black cat)

Day 112:

Oct 20-Double Haiku, sometimes  separated into 2 Haikus, but typically one phrase, 575575.
Title: The Moon

Gentle visitor

Nightly beaming light throughout
Overshadowing
Stars twinkled above.
Rocky surface or cheesy?
Reflecting mirror.

Day 111:

Oct 19-Chant Royal, 3 or 5 stanzas, ababccddedE, envoi ddefE or ccddedE.typically iambic pentameter(soft/loud, 10 syllables), but not always. No rhyming used twice. French. Long poem.

Title: the music of the spheres delight the soul

Oh hear the sounds before the dawn of day!

Harmoniously row upon a row

The silly strings how cosmic-like they play!

Melodiously chords warm head to toe

Compared to stellar brightly singing flame.

Creation calls beginning with its’ frame.

The stars reach out to sing along the tale.

The planets merely echo for they pale.

Each note thus plays their own harmonic role.

The universe thus calls for all to hail

The music of the spheres delight the soul.

The sun beats out the meter we’re to stay

Don’t wander off toward the night so low

But stay in warmth in water and in clay.

Befriended daylight covers us below

But what of chaos? Can we ever fail?

Oh yes! And failure causes songs to stale

But still we strive the target, try to aim.

Cacophony thus rise but then be-tame

The sound before the foes do cut the hole

Releasing purity and thus impale

The music of the spheres delight the soul.

The gentle show displays a single ray

To multitudes of light into a show

That sparkles bright to chase away the gray.

But what is this? What causes you to slow?

So snail can win and thus the hare defame

The tortoise beats the deer. Does it enflame

the gray that shows? Does sunlight now doth ail?

The storm approaches! Fiercely fight the gale!

Each precious soul Redeemer pays the toll

The song goes out for joy for ev’ry nail,

The music of the spheres delight the soul.

The Grace divine enshrined so all can pray

With joy the brightness of the sky aglow.

The galaxies, the nebulas all say

Rejoice, the Savior comes! Defeats the foe!

The mortal frame thus filled does make the claim

And proves the Word by healing all the lame.

Declare the news to all from hill and dale

To ev’ry creature, female and to male

Oh shout it out! And make it thus your goal,

From pole to pole, by land and sea to sail

The music of the spheres delight the soul.

The sound of saints defined thus keep at bay

Destructive demonics who mean us woe.

The praises of the star’s foundations lay

For us the power, telling evil “Go!”

For some our life is but a simple game,

For some our life is fortune or of fame.

For ev’ry moment life does hold detail,

The tiny speck of dust to massive whale

The eye of God designs it, makes it whole.

Until we cross beyond the shining veil

The music of the spheres delight the soul.

So sing along each star and comet’s tail.

Rejoice oh robin, join along oh quail!

All life from eagle down to smallest vole

To stars do harmonize and not to wail,

The music of the spheres delight the soul.

Day 110:

Oct 18-Rhupunt, Irish,4 lines, 4 phrases,4 syllables- aaab, cccb, ddde, fffe. Title: three things

The past to stay

The now at play
The future grey
Time shows the light.
 
Reverse? Go back
Stop and don’t yack
Go forward mac
Run, drive or flight.

Dark lies the sky

Neutral to cry
Light shows the lie
Enjoy the show.

Slowly it’s cast

Stand with the past
Speed away fast
The end does stow.

Day 109:

Oct 17-grossblank, Iambic 14 syllables. Tercet 1:scene. 2:contrasts. 3: concludes. Title: Football

A football game. A sport? Frustration. Elation!

The fans together congregate. Rejoicing for their team.

The whistle blows, the kickoff starts the game, and here we go.

A fumble! Interception! Penalty! The game enflames.

A touchdown, field goals, touch back. Passing the ball or running the ball.

A sack! What else can happen? Time is quickly running out.

The fans, they get excitement. High school, college, and the pros.

Big money, advertisements, scholarships and salaries.

No matter what it takes, the game is entertaining fans.

Day 108:

Oct 16-Dorsimbra, form starts with abab iambic pentameter, then 4 short lines, then finish with iambic pentameter unrhymed, with the last line repeating the first line. Title: In Darkness Deep

The hollow earth, whose bowels touch its’ heart

The depths explored reveal stalagmite tall

Spelunkers take the time before they start

Prepare for danger lest stalactite fall.

Cave conquerors connive

In darkness deep

In cramped quarters

For fun.

What spurs such people for the dangers stark

To winnow deep within the world’s cell walls

To search below the secrets of earth’s soul

 The hollow earth, whose bowels touch its’ heart

Day 107:

Oct 15-Acrostic Sonnet, first letters make a phrase. Title: A Golden Silence

A golden silence beckons me to walk,

Galoshes grabbing earth before we seek

Of love, of peace, and we could only talk.

Line up the senses, scenery to peek.

Defensive nostrils, sneezing is your due.

Entirely covered nerves and skin depend

Not once but constant warms you through and through.

Serene the sound that carries out to send.

Indict the palette, tasting bright your role.

Laid up oh silence, that delightful pause,

Enhance the scene, yea presently the goal.

Not far from Heaven’s gates defends the cause.

Contain the peaceful sun and make it stay

Entrance the soul, you golden silent ray.

Day 106:

Oct 14-Caudette Sonnet, -standard sonnet with tail of 3 extra lines ghh.

So how to make a Caudette type sonnet?

It’s easy if you simply just know how.

The secret you must keep in your bonnet.

So are you ready? I will show you how.

Just take a sonnet like one from Shakespeare

Or make it up yourself  if you choose to.

So go and fill the poem without fear

And then you will surely be almost through.

Iambic pentameter the meter

Abab, cdcd you start

Efef, careful don’t peter

For you have a last phrase to then impart.

For ggghh then closes the frame.

So carefully craft or then take the blame.

Yes, thank you kindly for playing the game.

The Caudette Sonnet is ready for you.

Take sonnet, then add it, and you are through.

Day 105:

Oct 13-Not superstitious, are you, knock on wood?,Here is a poem belying the upcoming Halloween mood. Title:Beware the dark brood(#11,721)

All Hallows Eve

Superstitions rise

A time for darkness

And horror out cries.

The shadows stretch out

Beware the dark brood.

They are out in force

And hungers for food.

Bloodthirsty vampires

Maybe zombies, too

Monsters all galore

Both ancient and new.

Beware the dark brood.

Day 104:

Oct 12- Balanced/California Sonnet, ababcbc dedefef, Barbara Dilworth.

A balance is made by Dilworth. Her way

Is known as California rhyme scheme.

Just take two phrases of seven to play

Iambic pentameter work the theme.

With ababcbc to start

The poet Barbara Dilworth, a gleam

In eye, she splits the sonnet form apart.

She sometimes has a question posed for all

Then answered in the next poetic phrase.

The dedefef does call

The poet to lift the darkening haze

And close the sonnet with some dignity.

So now give Barbara Dilworth the praise

For making a Balanced Sonnet to see.

Day 103:

Oct 11-Curtal Sonnet, abcabcdbcdc or abcabcdcbdc, by George Manley Hopkins. Most have last line as 6 or less syllables, usually 2.

The poet  Gerald Manley Hopkins writ

The Curtal Sonnet making it brand new

For others to follow the pattern now.

It’s abcabc, first to fit

Then dbcdc, so here’s your cue

Make sure the last line only half, and how?

Just six or less syllables work the line.

For some, it must be finally but two.

To ease the conscience of the critics, I’ll bow.

I’ll close this sonnet just their way. That’s fine.

Kapow!

Day 102:

Oct 10-Sculpham Sonnet, abccba abccba dd, by Peter Scupham.

The poet Peter Sculpham writes this way

To make a sonnet, stanzas made just right

First, abccba starting it

Repeat the stanza, try to make it fit.

While some may say tis not a true one, fight

Against those sonnet makers, I say NAY!

A Sculpham Sonnet tis one like some say

Iambic pentameter fits so tight

The phrases filled enraptured lines so writ

But critics wish all to follow Brit

The Bard himself, they claim has truer sight

So write his way, to keep the mob at bay.

A Sculpham closes with dd, you see

A Sculpham Sonnet strives to make one free!

Day 101:

Oct 9-Petrarchan Sonnet, - abba abba then cdc dcd or cdc cde. By Petrarch, perfected love originally from Giacomo Lentini.

Other versions:cddcdd, cddece, cddcdd, cddede.

A love sonnet, Italian, you see

From Giacomo Lentini, you know

The inspiration love bequests to show

Petrarchan Sonnets model perfectly.

But Petrarch added more to make it free

The octave abba then does grow

Another abba to then sew

Your poem into something  shown with glee.

The octave followed by sestet reply

Add cdccde if you may

Or cdcdcd to say bye.

But if you choose another sestet, why

It’s fine to do. It’s flexible ,that’s why,

And now you know the Petrarchan Sonnet.

Day 100:

Oct 8-Zeugma,a descriptive definition involving comparing opposites. Can be used as a couplet form, or combined with another form with other descriptions such as metaphors and similes. For instance:

My laptop and I tripped on a rug

We both crashed and we both got a bug.

Day 99:

Oct 7-Spenserian Sonnet, abab bcbc cdcd ee. It typically is iambic pentameter

Spenserian type Sonnets are strange breeds

Four phrases work their way into the style.

Iambic Pentameter fill the deeds

To make poetic license with a smile.

Abab to start, still got awhile

Bcbc will move it to the break

Then take the next whole step in rank and file.

The syllables then count for poem’s sake.

Cdcd, you’re almost through, no fake.

Ee then follows, phrasing worth the wait

For Sonnet making, it’s a piece of cake.

Then close it with a couplet, shut the gate!

This special Sonnet is guaranteed true

Now try your luck and see what you can do.

Day 98:

Oct 6- Eugene Onegin Sonnet Form-ABAB,CCDD,EFFE,GG, using Iambic Pentameter. Title: Life

What likens life than Spring to Winter’s day?

The seasons bend for time to take its’ due.

The harvesting begun in its’ own way

Until the souls are ready, time is through.

From glorious beginnings we are born.

In strength we climb to heights sublime, then torn

By Nature’s entropy to pieces sharp

And Judgment comes, to pain or playing harp.

Cacophony or harmony our role

In life is shown Eternity’s bright door.

In how we live, in how we die, we store

The chains or gems, our future’s final goal.

So while the day so shin es endure the heat

In doing so, prepared when God you’ll meet.

Day 97:

Oct 5-Rondeau, French-aabba, aabRefrain, aabbaRefrain, 8 syllalbles, 4 for Refrain.

What is it that you have to say?

Writing a Rondeau the right way.

Now here is what you have to do

To make this French form work with you.

Then you can make one any day.

Eight syllables each line to stay

But the Refrain has four to play

Three phrases will then work your thoughts

It”s a Rondeau!

Aabba starts the day

Aab and  Refrain next weigh

Aabba gives a clue

To show how phrases work for you.

It”s a Rondeau!

Day 96:

Oct 4-Luc Bat, from Vietnam.  6 & 8 syllables lines alternate. xxxxxA, xxxxxxAxB, xxxxxB, xxxxxBxC, etc. Title: Web of Life

What is the web of life?

How can there be such strife we see?
Just how can this thing be?
Is mortality fee as toll?
Strands attached to a soul.
We mortals have a role to play.
But do we have a say?
The spider has a way to go
To bring us mortals low.
Are we just flies so slow to wait
With fear, sealed is our fate?
Or ignoring the rate of breath
We consume before death.
As Adam begat Seth, the call
The web of life gives all.
The souls attached so small right now
God claims us all, and how!

Day 95:

Oct 3-Haiku-Sonnet, Haiku lines(5-7-5) rhyme according to the sonnet form. Abab cdcd efef gg. Title: This side of heaven.

This side of heaven. What is it about living? What meaning is life?

Is there a purpose? Philosophers argue this. Posturing? Useless.
Life is a battle. Satan’s minions are at war. Everything is strife.
Sickness and disease. Disasters are abundant. Satan is ruthless.

Is the Lord to blame? The final battle is won. Eternal glory.

A chance for us all. Worthy of the  courageous. The reward is peace.
Soldiers of the cross. Willing to defend the Lord. Part of the story.
Eternity calls. Resurrection of the dead. When all tears do cease.
 

Our purpose is clear. Faithful until death calls us. True soldier to fight.

So what else is there? Do we struggle for power? What about money?
It’s dust in the wind. Temporals that fade away. Heaven’s in our sight.
A place of pure joy. A land flowing with good things. Like milk and honey.

We’re not made for here. We’re made for eternity. Forget what has past.

This side of heaven. Briefly passing this old life. To one that will last.