Day 335:
May 31-Takeoff, a wild ride with imagination. 10 little rockets, take off on 10 little Indians(#12,736)

10 little rockets standing oh so still

One flew off and 9 are left with the bill.
9 little rockets posing for the sun
One flew off, 9 watched it go like a gun.
8 little rockets gazing at the sky
One flew off the 7 watched it go high.
7 little rockets, standing so plain
One flew off and now just 6 do remain.
6 little rockets, almost look alive
One flew off and now there are only 5.
5 little rockets, looking what’s in store
One flew off, and there is just only 4.
4 little rockets, standing, you can see
One flew off, and leaving just only 3.
3 little rockets, gleaming through and through
One flew off, so now there are only 2.
2 little rockets, they are almost done
One flew off, and left with a lonely one.
One little rocket, standing at the dawn
This one flew off and now they are all gone.

Day 334:

May 30-persona poem, taking a view from someone or something else. In this poem, the view is from eyes of a horse. Title: horsing Around

Foal, colt, filly

Ride with the herd

Gallop, cantor

Feeding, drinking

Leaping, jumping

Mares and stallions

Walking around

Farmland pastures

What is that sound?

Snort and whinny

Feeling the wind

Smell the fresh air

Peaceful, resting

Relaxed grazing

Fed oats and grass

Grooming received

Crossing fine fields

Trotting, sprinting

Moving muscles

Heart pumping race

Swimming rivers

Start with the light

Top of the class

Leading the herd

Resting at night.

Day 333:

May 29-Opposites, a couplet with each line going the opposite.

What is opposite? Start with one

You’ve just begun and now you’re done.

Here’s another poem.

She looks like an angel

But she acts like a devil.

Still trying to work out the bugs, especially when out of town, so if you see a date that is off, sorry.

Day 329:

May 25-Iroquois Strawberry Ceremony, celebrate harvest and nature

Harvest

Nature

Iroquois

Strawberries

Celebrate

Ceremony

Rejoice, Nature!

Day 332:

May 28-Back to more forms. From the book, “Poetry from A to Z” by Paul B. Janeczko. List poem, where to do lists, and things can be made into poetry. Title: Things to do in case of zombies.

Don’t panic

Remain sane

Do not get bit

Find a plane

Stay in the sun

Open places are best

Get a gun

Secure a place to rest

Gather your goodies

A fort will suffice

Get together

Friends are nice

Try for a cure

Find long term  food like cheese

Water must be pure

In case of zombies.

Day 331:

May 27-Memorial Day, honoring this day

Soldiers unite!

All who did fight

Freedom the goal

What price the toll?

Blood, sweat and tears

Beat back the fears

Stand and salute

Freedom’s not mute

Remember how

Both then and now

Give them your say

And honor this day!

Day 330:

May 26-back to forms, in this case the Harrisham Rhyme, which has the ababab rhyme scheme, each first word is unique in that the last letter of the previous first word is the first letter of the new first word on the next line. This comes from Punjab, in India. The inventor is Harrisham Minhas.

What is a Harrisham Rhyme form like?

Take the last letter, put in first in the next line.

E’en one not Indian, yea a tyke

Not to worry, ababab’s the sign

To make it right, take it down the pike,

Otherwise you might miss making it very fine.

Day 328:

May 24- Florette, a couplet with 6 syllables, and internal rhyme

Florette form set in time

Six sounds found in a rhyme.

The modified form of the Florette uses 5 lines, aabba.

A fine line a good message makes

Would good news should have what it takes?

Some sad thing may bring on bad luck

Hopefully you won’t pass the buck

And hand out cool blessings for everyone’s sakes.

Day 327:

May 23-Back to another form, Decuain, by Shelley Cephas, 10 lines, 10 syllables, iambic pentameter, 3 choices for rhyme scheme: ababbcbcaa, ababbcbcbb, or ababbcbccc.

The poem form Decuain is unique

Iabic meter with ten line and sounds

The rhyme scheme follows patterns you’re to seek

With two ab’s, bc’s and a’s do rounds

Or other rhyme schemes calling out the hounds

Ababbcbcbb

Or maybe you prefer a type that pounds

Ababbcbccc

Twas made by Shelley Cephas, o so sleek!

Now try it out yourself, it won’t be weak!

Day 326:

May 22- Whit Embertide, spring celebration and worship, a poem

Whit

Fasting,

Worshiping

Celebration

Embertide

Praising

God

Day 325:

May 21-Con-verse, by Connie Wong, starts with a 7 syllable couplet, with 3 or more couplets in the form. Each additional couplet adds a syllable, 7/7,8/8,9/9,10/10,11/11, then start again with 7.

The Con-verse form is by Wong

It’s easy, you can’t go wrong.

Seven syllables starts it out

Three or more couplets make a route.

Add one syllable for each new phrase

Til ten lines are reached, stop to gain praise!

Day 324:
May 20- back to forms, Cinqtroisdecala, 15 syllable lines, rhyme scheme aabbcccabc, from Laura Lamarca

The Cinqtroisdecala is an interesting form to do

Fifteen syllables per line you must have to make the style true
Ten lines are rhyme for this single stanza poem to stand on
Aabbcccabc will make you its pawn
Lamarca invents such fascinating forms on which to play
It might be harder if it were more than one stanza at bay
But since it is just one, then anyone can try if they may
So now get out your dictionary and your thesaurus too
Count down each line and syllable until each of them is gone
Then you can say with the best of them that you did it your way.

Day 323:
May 19- Pentecost, in honor of this, a poem,

Pentecost, a lovely feast

Fifty days the past to remember
Time to reflect on the Law and the Prophets
And institution of the Passover.

Day 322:
May 18-Armed Forces Day, in their honor, this poem(#12,671)

The soldiers march to the grand beat

All branches celebrate their feat
Serving their country, they did fight
To protect us, our sovereign right
Let us remember in this way
By honoring Armed Forces Day.

Day 321:

May 17-Brevette, 3 word poem: subject( 1 word noun), verb(stretch letters to show action), object(1 word noun)

Brevette

S h o w s

Action

Here's another poem to show how it works.

Tree

W a v e s

branches

Day 320:
May 16-back to more forms, the 7/5 Trochee, with at least 2 quatrains, rhyme scheme either abcb or abab, alternate 7/5/7/5, with trochee rhythm.

Seven five style Trochee form

Abcb the rhyme scheme
Also abab rhyme
Quatrains, two or more the theme.
 
Alternated counts the norm
With them both they make a team
Do this right and then in time
You’ll make a poet supreme.

Day 319:
May 15-Police Officer’s Memorial Day, in their honor, this poem

An officer of the Law they say

Once was looked up to in their hey-day
All sacrificed their lives to protect
The innocent from crimes to deflect
Remember all who fell, they did serve
Helping others they sure had the nerve!

Day 318:

May 14-Complex Rhyming Alliterisen, uses the complex Alliterisen(7 lines, x syllables for first line, each does the following: x+2, x-1, (x+2)-1, x-2, (x+2)-2, and x, with alliteration in the lines) combined with the aabbccd rhyme scheme.

How tall the wall

Don’t stall, just make the call

Walk the talk

Don’t shirk and don’t stalk

Stares? Scares?

Taking time cares

Talk and live love.

Day 317:

May 13-Leprechaun Day! In honor of those tiny terrors, a poem:

With fine limericks and memories of St. Pat

Another day is brought forth and placed on the mat

Is it lucky or plucky? Or is it bad luck?

Leprechaun Day is here, so you better duck!

Day 316:

May 12- Mother’s Day, in  honor of mothers everywhere, this poem:

A poem for you

A feeling so true

For moms ev’rywhere

For their tender care

On this day brought nigh

For placing them high

Closing now to say

Happy Mother’s Day!

Day 315:

May 11-Rhymed Alliterisen, 7 lines, aabbccd rhyme scheme, 7 syllables, at least 1 alliteration

With a leap, a bound and sound

The fight did pound to the ground

With a mad dash he did bash

Then fled while bled from the gash

The mad soul’s goals went awry

The vic, he did pick did fly

Back luck, Chuck Norris he met.

Day 314:
May 10-Complex Alliterisen, 7 lines, mathematically adjust the syllable count per line. Line 1=x syllables, line 2=x+2, line 3=x-1, line 4=(x+2)-1, line 5=x-2, line 6=(x+2)-2, line 7=back to x syllables. At least 2 alliterations per line.

The complex Alliterisen you pen

Counts out specific syllables as math per line
Start out x syllables, flout, export
To add or subtract each line per each math fact
X, x+2, x-2
If true, 2 alliterations
The end fit penned like it began.

Day 313:

May 9-Bad Luck again? Or just superstitious? Here’s a poem for day 313.

The mirror broke

And spilt some salt

No luck to soak

So who’s at fault?

Superstition!

Day 312:

May 8-the Drottkvaet, old Norse Skaldic meter, any # of quatrains, 12 syllable lines, typically broken into half lines, with  troche meter used at the end of the half line, aBaB rhyme scheme, with a using assonance, and B a true rhyme. Couplets linked by assonance, each half line has 3 stressed and three unstressed syllables. Two word metaphoric descriptions help give the feel of a riddle. Metaphors can be Kennings(Norse mythology used as metaphors).

I’ll show you by Troche

---you must have the know how

It’s a tricky one, my, my

---Twelve syllables to rhyme

This form stands alone, say

---like a riddle for now.

Make assonance fly high

---mind’s worth, you’re done in time.

BTW, I'm not sure, but someone said V.E. Day was today. oh well.

Day 311:

May 7-Back to forms, this time a finnish form called the Kalevala, rhymed couplets tell the story, with alliteration and parallels, using trochaic (dash dot) tetra meter(8 syllables)

Finnish Kalevala folk verse

Couplets tell a tale to immerse

Troche tetrameters are led

Parallels alliterated

Make your mark for poetry high

Go and write and give it a try.

Day 310:

May 6- V.E. Day, in honor of this day, a poem,

Victory in Europe

Death takes a holiday

And what better way

For wars to dismiss

Than with a kiss?

Day 309:

May 5-Cinco de Mayo, a poem to celebrate this holiday,

Cinco de Mayo

Celebrating

Victory!

Ole!

Day 308:

May 4-another form, this time from Africa and imported into America, called the Kwansaba, 7 lines, with 7 words per line, no word exceeding 7 letters. Typically used to celebrate family, Afro-American Culture, and is a praise poem.

A Kwansaba praises family, culture with poetry.

It has seven lines with seven words

But no word may exceed seven letters.

It once came from Africa, now America

It does not have a special meter

It doesn’t have to rhyme. Try it!

Day 307:

May 3- National Day of prayer,

A prayer for us

A request for America

We ask the Lord

For our national guidance

In thankfulness for blessings

In repentance for sins

We ask in care

National Day of Prayer.

Day 306:

May 2-back to forms, The Doha, Hindi form with any number of couplets, each line 24 syllables, paused @ end of syllable 13, making the 2 line phrases of 13 and 11 syllables. Can be arranged as a quatrain breaking the line at the caesura. Commonly used for verbs, or longer narratives, typically of romantic poetry.

A love lost forever, can another yet be found?

----perhaps, maybe, unknown, it is possible.

As long as life continues, there is hope it’s around

---a search is required, it’s not impossible.

Day 305:

May 1-Law Day, a poem for this event,

What is the law?

What is it’s rule?

Order, it’s draw

 A needed tool.

Celebrate it

Remember it

That’s what I say

It is Law Day.