Shaping Words: A Christmas Prayer

Friday, December 25, 2009

A Christmas Prayer

Snow
Falling
On the ground
On Christmas day
May there be peace on earth without delay

2 comments:

Dan Gurney said...: Hi, Jim. I like Shaping Words. I added to my list of blogs to read attached to Mindful Heart. I hope some of my readers will come over to check out your poetry.; December 25, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Jim714 said...: Thanks, Dan. It's to hear from you here. Happy Holidays!

Jim; December 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM

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.