Shaping Words: Ordinary Morning

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Ordinary Morning

Sparrows on the oak
In the light of dawn
Hot tea on my desk
I hum an old song

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Lovely poetry, and happy to find the website, and be able to get the poems by subscribing! Laura; November 7, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Jim714 said...: Thanks Laura. Good to "see" you here. It's nice knowing that you are a part of this little corner of the blogosphere. Jim; November 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM

Welcome to Shaping Words

My name is Jim Wilson and I am your host. Shaping Words is dedicated to the exploration of formal syllabic verse in English. Formal syllabic verse is poetry that has a set form which is determined by counting the syllables of the lines of the specific form. In formal syllabic verse words are shaped to the specific form of the type of verse being written. Hence the title of this blog: Shaping Words.

Formal syllabic verse has a wide variety of forms including Cinquain, Tetractys, Lanterne, as well as imported forms such as Haiku, Renga, and Tanka when the poet follows their traditional syllabic structure. This blog will offer poems from these many forms as well as occasional posts on the place of syllabic verse in English.

Above all Shaping Words hopes to be an enjoyable place for people to visit. Thank you for visiting Shaping Words and I look forward to hearing from you.