Day 304:

April 30-Urjuza, or Urjuzah, similar to Uruzah, but couplets rhyme(aa, bb, cc, etc.)

A sound that sings, sensational, satisfying

Musical notes, harmonizing, gratifying.

Day 303:

April 29-URUZAH-couplets Rajaz meter(24 syllables, 2 hemistichs[1/2 lines of 12 syllables with break between them. Hemistich- 3feet, 4 syllables each, dash-dash-dot-dash. Hajaz=dot-3 dashes, Ramal=2nd syllable dot.

The Uruzah, 12 syllables, per each fine line

Rajaz Meter, no rhyme needed, Arabic sound.

Day 302:

April 28-Back to forms, Anistubh, Vedas from India, Quatrain of 8 syllables with irregular meter, alternating trochaic(stressed, unstressed) and iambic(unstressed, stressed) meter, caesura helps to back up the rhythm. Typically a mantra to the Sun god.

The Anistubh Vedas mantra

Quatrain syllables filled by eight

Trochaic, Iambic meter

Sunshine’s caesura collide.

Day 301:

April 27-Mayan Rain Festival, so this poem,(#12,628)

Let it rain forth!

Wet the farmland!

Bring forth fruit

Celebrate!

Mayans rejoice!

Rain festival!

Day 300:

April 26-Tri-centennial, the 300^th day of poetry for this blog. Here is a poem commemorating this moment.

Centuries, landmarks

Monumental line

Tri-centennial

Celebrate the sign,

The three hundred mark.

Day 299:

April 25-Mandakranta, Sanskrit/Indian form, typically unrhymed, either with all 4 lines with 17 syllables, or 17/16/17/17. Caesuras broken down by the fourth, and the ninth or tenth syllable. Subjects typically cover mysticism, love, sex, and spirituality.

Mandakranta, seventeen syllables, or mostly so anyway

Broken and split, caesuras are within, describing mysticism

Or love or yet, spirituality. Divide the fourth syllable,

The ninth or tenth, then finish the quatrain, then you have written it well.

Day 298:
April 24-Sloka, from India, 2 hemistiches(16) or broken down into 4 lines(pada)of 8 syllables. Any number of phrases, alternate trochaic(stressed, unstressed) and iambic(unstressed, stressed) cadence, not necessary to rhyme.

The Sloka is from India

Padas, alternate syllables
Iambic, Trochaic cadence
Four lines, eight sounds, couplets sixteen. 

Day 297:

April 23-start again with forms, The Ukrainian Form called the Sevenling, 7 lines, 2 tercets and a single “Punch” line as a narrative summary, unrhymed, with varied meter, using parallels. A sense of mystery typically is involved. The Title is typically the first three words of the poem. The first tercet, has the three lines are complementary, while the next tercet the lines are parallel, and the last line is typically juxtaposed. Title: A Messy World

A messy world we live in

Pollution by careless people

Nations unconcerned by trash

Violence surrounds us

Crime and hatred too

Selfish concerns fill the world

---Yet Christ died for us.

Day 296:
April 22-Earth Day, a poem for this day(#12,611)

A day for life

Remove the strife
Celebrating
For surviving
Animals play
The plants display
Treat them  all right
Care with your might
Reduce your use
Again reuse
Recycle things
Yes, give it wings
In all this way
Care for Earth Day.

Day 295:
April 21-Iroqis Corn Planting Festival, so a poem to honor this day

Seeding

Planting
Growing
Flowers
 
Festival
Rejoicing
Plentiful
Celebrate
 
Raining
Singing
Dancing
Harvest.

Day 294:
April 20-Kasa, Korean, 7 syllables,(3 and 4 grouped) or 8 syllables (4 & 4). Vary lines, paralleled, concerning love, patriotism, nature, daily life, or nostalgia.

Love of woman, unrequited

Sorrow begun, joys now ended.

Day 293:
April 19-Daina, from Latvia, tetrameter(8 syllables) with Dactyl(3 syllable) or Trochaic(dash dot) single quatrain, unstressed ending, unrhymed although alliteration and rhyme can naturally appear.

Daina quatrain meter poem

Fine troche tetrameter
Latvian alliteration
Unstressed endings. Unhymed? Maybe.

Day 292:
April 18-another form from the Philippines, the Awit, where the form is a song, the phrase is a complete sentence, broken into 12 syllable lines in mono-rhyme aaaa/bbbb/cccc etc. the form uses figures of speech, and tells a story in epic format, and usually as a song.

The Filipino song form that’s called the Awit

Is a complete narrative, a story, thus writ
With twelve syllables to make each line fit
Using figures of speech using wit.

Day 291:
April 17-Tanaga, from the Philippines, 7 syllables, mono-rhyme, aaaa/bbbb/ccccc, etc. typically untitled, using metaphors.

The Tanaga, go and soar

Seven syllables now roar
Metaphors are at the core
Monorhyme phrases, each four.

Day 290:
April 16-Back to more forms from the world, CroCumaise Etir Casbairdni Ocus Lethrannaigecht, Celtic form, 4 line phrase, abab, 7/5/7/5 syllables, rhyme scheme has 3 syllables/1 syllable/3 & 1.

Seven and five syllables

Three and one will rhyme.
Now go eat your veg’tables
Then write, take your time.

Day 289;
April 15-Tax Day, to help ease the burden, this poem

The day has come

Dreaded by some
Paying out cash
Some quite a stash
While some are lax
Still, pay that tax!
The IRS
Penalizes
Those who are late
On this sad date.
Go on and pay
Yes, it’s Tax Day.

Day 288:
April 14-Pan-American Day, in commemoration, this poem.(#12,601)

America

Pan America
North America
Latin America
South America
What is it that unites us?
A land bridge?
Is there anything else?
Language?
No, there are many languages.
A common heritage?
No, many heritages from around the world.
Unity in diversity.
A great stretch of land.
From Canada to Chile
From Alaska to Argentina
From the North to the South
The East to the West
A land of greatness.
So let’s celebrate
In our own way
Pan American Day!

Day 287:
April 13-Thomas Jefferson B-Day, in his honor, this poem

A special day

For a President
A leader for all time
A memorial
Ambassador
The Constitution
The Declaration
Of Independence
An inventor
Businessman
Scholar
Happy Birthday,
Thomas Jefferson!

Day 286:

April 12- Deibhidhe Guilbnech Dialtach,  any # of 4 lined phrases,7 syllables rhymed couplets. Rhymes end in consonants.

This Celtic form is not small

Seven syllables tell all

Consonants will fill the plan

For poets to make the clan.

Day 285:

April 11- Deibhidhe Guilbnech, any # of 4 lined phrases,7 syllables rhymed couplets. Rhymes are stresses.

The Deibhidhe Guilbnech

Can turn you into a wreck

Seven syllables will work

Couplets are stressed, so don’t shirk.

Day 284:
April 10-Deibhidhe, Celtic form, 7 syllables, last word of Line 4 alliterating word before it, but not necessarily rhyming. At least 2 cross rhymes between lines 3 and 4. Any # of quatrains, aabb, ccdd, etc xxxxxxA/xxxxxxA/xBxxxxB/xxxBxBB

The Deibhidhe is Celtic

Poem’s cross rhymes do fit
Xbxxxb
Xxxbxbb
 
Phrases? Have any number
Just make sure not to slumber
Awake the poet, yes wake
The form’s at stake, no fake ache!

Day 283:
April 9-Heroic Rispetto, a Rispetto with iambic Pentameter(10 syllables)

A hero fights along the bloody fray

The villain runs away, the coward flees
The battle won, with stories set to say
The legend builds, now told as tall as trees.

The truth forgotten, valiant lives are spent

But who recalls the reason they were sent?
The brave, they fought the nameless, numbing fear
The dead, forgotten, try and shed a tear.

Day 282:

April 8-Rispetto, Italian form, abab ccdd, iambic tetrameter(8 syllables)

Rispettos work their way with me

Iambic tetrameters play

Abab then stop to see

Ccdd will close the way.

Italians like to play his game

Now see if you can do the same.

A poet you’ll be, yes you’ll do

Just write it out and then you’re through.

Day 281:

April 7-World Health Day, a poem commemorating health

A healthy way

To start each day

A proper meal

Will seal the deal

Exercise right

Feel out of sight

Now get some rest

To pass the test

Doctors when ill

Then take your pill

Treat yourself right

You’ll live with might!

Day 280:

April 6-Have just a minute, so here’s the Minute Poetry form. 60 syllables, divided into 3 quatrains. 8 syllables for each first line, the rest have 4, couplet rhyme scheme, ie. Aabb/ccdd/eeff, with iambic meter.

The Minute Poetry is fine

Iambic line

8444

Is at the core.

Couplets a,b,c,d,e and

F make a stand.

Three phrases bold

Make the form hold

60 syllables make the scene

Write straight and clean

Yes, Short but sweet

Try it, it’s neat! 

Day 279:
April 5-Quizaine, French form, 17 syllables broken into 3 lines(7/5/3). The first is a statement, the next two are questions regarding the statement.

Quizaine, seven, five, three

Does it have to rhyme?
Is it French?

Day 278:

April 4-Katauta, Japanese form, sometimes called a half form, because 2 are used to make a Sedoka.. typically 5/7/7 but sometimes 5/7/5. Talks of love.

A half form poem

Incomplete without one’s love

Two Katautas? A Sedoka.

To show how this form can work alone, another poem. Title: My Love

My love, incomplete

Without you I am nothing

My joy, my all is with you.

Day 277:
April 3-Cywydd llosgyrnog, 8/8/7 8/8/7 syllables phrases a is in the middle of the 7 syllable line(#3,4 or 5) repeat ccb. For a sixtain. Xxxxxxxa  xxxxxxxa xxaxxxb  xxxxxxxc xxxxxxxc xxcxxxb.

Cywydd llosgyrnogs are great

Eight syllable lines have their mate
Close its’ fate with seven sounds.
 
aa then b, six lines  do well
cc then b, middle rhymes tell
Do it swell, then try more rounds.

Day 276:
April 2-back to forms. Gwydd deuair fyrion, simple 4 syllable couplet, rhyme optional.

A couplet most fair

Write it with care.

Day 275:

April 1- April Fool’s Day, an appropriate poem(#12,578)

What do you say?

It’s time to play

So come what may

Fool friends today

Brighten the grey

The fool will pay

The pranks away

Happy to say

April Fool’s Day!

Day 274:

Mar 31-Easter, so a poem commemorating it.

The bunny comes

The kids rejoice

This holiday

You have a choice.

Resurrection

Or fantasy.

Find Easter eggs

Or pray with me.

A time of joy

Easter is here

No matter what

Give out a cheer.

Day 273:

Mar 30-Lanturne, Japanese form resembling a lantern. 1/2/3/4/1 syllables.

Light

Lanturne

Syllables

1,2,3,4

One.

Day 272:

Mar 29-Good Friday, and this poem:

A good day, is it true?

A true innocent died

Watched by a vicious crew

And the women, they cried.

A mighty sacrifice

For all the world’s sinners

No need to do it twice

For believing winners.

Look ahead and you’ll see

A mighty victory!