Shaping Words: Why They Parted

Friday, April 13, 2012

Why They Parted

Shouts
Screams
Anger
Poisoned words
Reverberations
Rippling through the rooms of the house,
Wave after wave polluting the days that will follow,
Like a cunning plague infected rat maliciously spreading its flea-bitten sorrow

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I saw your comment on Brian's blog, Jim and I am fascinated by your powerful poems and words! Thank you!
See you!
Renée; April 14, 2012 at 3:23 AM
Jim714 said...: You are welcome, Renee. And thanks for taking the time to post your kind comments.

Jim; April 14, 2012 at 7:35 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.