Shaping Words: Riverscape

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Riverscape

The rain's falling all day long
Here on the Russian River
The sky slowly turns to night,
Mists make the trees look darker

2 comments:

Brian said...: This poem is so delicate and fully-formed. No doubt I will return to it as often as 'Springscape'.

Brian; April 19, 2012 at 6:35 AM
Jim714 said...: Good Morning Brian:

Thanks for taking the time to post your appreciative comments.

Jim; April 20, 2012 at 6:47 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.