Shaping Words: Winter Weekend

Friday, January 6, 2012

Winter Weekend

Blue sky
Cold day
Strong wind
Kids play

2 comments:

Brian said...: I love rhythmic singing of the names of things, the poet's single most important task.; January 6, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Jim714 said...: Thanks Brian. This kind of poem reminds me of kids on a playground who will sometimes talk in a kind of simple rhythm. English has a large percentage of one syllable words which allows for this kind of steady beat.

Jim; January 11, 2012 at 6:36 AM

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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.

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