Day 342:

June 7-back to forms, the Scandinavian form, the Stev. A folksong form with 4 line phrase(s) using lyric stances, typically 8 or 10 syllables. Rhyme scheme typically abab or aabb, with older folksongs abcb, and a free meter. The following is abcb.

Oh who will write a funny Stev?

And rhyme it like it used to be?

Scandinavian folk songs dance!

Take a meter and make it free!

The next poem  is aabb with 10 syllables Title:Dance Away

Dance away the hours, dance away my dear

And stop only with a kiss, since you’re near

The music plays before the starry night

With you here by me, it all feels so right.

The next Stev Poem below is abab with 8 syllables.

Birthday Stev

Make a wish, blow out the candles

And have a party just your way

What’d you get? Were they sandals?

Go on, have a Happy Birthday!  

Day 341:

June 6-D-Day, in honor of that day, this poem

The greatest assault on tyranny

That truly the world has ever known.

It’s told as history’s longest day.

The fight for freedom that day was shown.

Day 340:

June 5-Gruk(or Grook), Danish form using irony, paradox, satire, brevity and rhyme. The frame is at the poet’s discretion. Originally a coded form of passive resistance to Nazi occupation.

A Gruk or Grook is funny

Just look at its’ title to see

A tasty Danish token

Make sure that it’s not broken

Try to make your poem fit

The frame that was made for it.

Day 339:

June 4-Runic Verse, taking a Rune(Norse, Icelandic, Anglo-Saxon) used symbols of Teutonic alphabet as memory aid, using Skaldic meter. Today a chant-like sonic pattern to conjure images of mystery and magic. Title X-Gyfu(gift, opportunity)

-Gifts presented

----Opportunity

-------Grace given

------------Yea, tis free.

Day 338:

June 3-Hrynhent, Norse Skadic form, any number of quatrains,16 syllables lines, broken into half lines of 8 syllables(Octave), ending in Trochee(stresses, unstressed), each half line has 4 stressed and 4 unstressed syllables, with aBaB  rhyme scheme, where a is assonance, and slant rhyme, while B is true rhyme, internal rhyme is allowed. Kenning(Norse terms for items) is used. 

The Hrynhent is skaldic sent here

By Norsemen, four stressed, four unstressed

Quatrains made into half phrases

aBaB, kenning Sif’s Hair

Trochees close  off half line tokens

Assonance rolls by to hold on

Make Bait-Gallows and add capers

Twas aided not by a Care, bare.

Day 337:
June 2-Tableau, 5 syllabled 6 line phrase, any number, as defined, the poem paints a picture, does not have to rhyme. The title must include the word tableau in it. Title: Rose Tableau

Rainbow like colors

Pick one that you like
Watch out for thorns!
Petals soft as silk

A wonderful gift,

Invokes great feeling.

Day 336:
June 1-Almost done with the year! Even now, there are those who can’t see how a poet can write over 12,000 poems. Let’s try some more math. Ate the end of this year, 365 poems will be written. Since more than one has been written for years, let’s multiply by 10 years, 3,650. If a poem a day is written for 30 years, that is around 11,000, and for 40 years, that makes over 14,000. So it is possible for a poet to pen plenty of poems. Enough said, now to a form called a Mirror sestet, created by Shelley Cephas. 6 lines, which can be rhymed or not-rhymed. Each couplet in the stanza basically is reversed. The first word rhymes with the last word in the line, then the last word becomes the first word on the following line, and the last word is the first word from the line before. If un-rhymed, the last word in the line simply is the first word in the next line. Phrases? However many you want.

Hey, the mirror sestet has its’ say.

Say you have a first word like, hey!
Reverse the first and last using verse.
Verse is used going in reverse.
Six lines per stanza, what a fix!
Fix couplets together by six.