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.