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.