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you.

  I crack up laughing here. I have weighed up the pros and cons of this format and decided enough is enough. I’m content to finish right here and be happy with what I have got.

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  Written Limits

  Meaning

  Question cleaning

  Answers flowing freely

  Confused removed rather speedy

  Screening

  Writer

  Wording tighter

  Killing wordy phrases

  Moving forward throughout phases

  Brighter

  Broken

  Language spoken

  Message reaping season

  Mental blockage recent season

  Woken

  Letter

  Writing better

  Wording flowing streaming

  Ideas coming pooling teaming

  Wetter

  Footnote:

  I think this is the first Cinquain I wrote. I’m almost positive.

  Again I went overboard. See here I have used the Limerick rhyming sequence. I intend to use this much more in the future since it is my favourite for this format.

  There is a small problem with the limerick rhyming sequence. The first and last word in the stanza are both 1 word, and need to rhyme, and need to have meaning. It isn’t easy.

  This poem sums up what I do. I put writing limits on myself to give myself a challenge. In this, I don’t just rhyme the last syllable, I rhyme the last 2 syllables.

  The first stanza starts with the core of poetry, meaning. It’s in a sense here talking about writers’ block. You have to clean up all your questions with answers and they need to flow freely. A question such as, “What words can I use that rhyme with meaning?”

  There are techniques in writing where you need to cut out words and shorten words but keep the meaning, so that it will fit and have the right rhythm. Sometimes a line my have too many words that are wasted and not needed. The more you work it, the better it gets.

  The next talks about the writers’ block being broken, waking up the mind to a new flood of abundant ideas. And then the result explained with a water metaphor.

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  A 13 Minute Poem for You

  This is one for you

  Rhyming tanka that is new

  Like a limerick

  A sequence that does the trick

  And it has some meaning too.

  Straight out of my head

  As if it has just been said

  I just write this way

  It’s like my mind wants to play

  Showing things that you have read.

  Hope you learned a bit

  Maybe you have liked my wit.

  Are you gonna write?

  Write some poetry tonight

  Maybe right there where you sit.

  I started with Hi

  Now I hope you’re on a high

  Joy from reading this

  Cherishing the mighty bliss

  Now it’s time to say Good bye

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