Shaping Words: Not Quite Ready

Friday, January 13, 2012

Not Quite Ready

Time
Moving
Ceaselessly
I get older
I number my days
The days that I have left
Become fewer and fewer

There is beauty in the sunset
And peace in faces I won't forget --

Eternity beckons and yet, and yet . . .

2 comments:

Dan Gurney said...: Masterful! I especially like the rhyming you've got going in the final three lines.; January 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Jim714 said...: Thanks, Dan, for your kind words. It is gratifying to have your continuing support and feedback.

Jim; January 17, 2012 at 8:05 AM

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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.