It’s a wise person
Who trusts their intuition
Sometimes fear is good.
Using fear tactics,
Politicians count on this
To win elections.
kat ~ 16 April 2016
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Fear – A Few Haiku
April Poetry Month – A Poem a Day #16
We are over the hump, day 16! Today I am exploring the Terzanelle. For starters, isn’t it a lovely word to say…Terzanelle. 🙂 It is a combination of the Villanelle and the Terza Rima poetry forms.
A 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets/tercets, the last stanza is a
quatrain with the first and third lines of the first triplet appearing as refrains. The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the center line of the next-to-the-last stanza which appears in the quatrain.
Yikes! Sounds complicated, but it’s not. Seeing it in diagram will hopefully dispel any confusion. The rhyme and refrain scheme for the triplets is as follows:
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. b
5. C
6. B
7. c
8. D
9. C
10. d
11. E
12. D
13. e
14. F
15. E
Ending Type 1:
16. f
17. A
18. F
19. A
Ending Type 2:
16. f
17. F
18. A
19. A
Each line of the poem should be the same metrical length.
Spring Longing
I remember you in spring
When the rose bush bursts in bloom
I remember you in springIts sweet fragrance heavy looms
The soft breeze caressing me
When the rose bush bursts in bloomWaves of longing crushing me
Your breath dusting my warm skin
The soft breeze caressing meBreaking my heart once again
Do you ever think of us?
Your breath dusting my warm skinLove’s refrain fades in the dust
Oh to hear your voice again
Do you ever think of us?Can’t accept this bitter end
Oh to hear your voice again
I remember you in spring
I remember you in springkat ~ 16 April 2016
April Poetry Month – A Poem a Day # 15
It’s Friday!  A special treat each week is going out to a great little Asian restaurant that features Thai, Japanese and Chinese cuisine. It’s become my favorite place. And so for this day’s poetry form I am sharing the Epulaeryu with you. It’s an obscure little form developed by one Joseph Spence, Sr. inspired by the memorable foods he experienced on his Mediterranean and Far East travels. There is literally a poem and poetry form for everything it seems!
Here’s are the details of a proper Epulaeryu:
-First and foremost it is all about delicious food!
-7 lines with 33 syllable
-The syllable scheme is: 7/5/7/5/5/3/1
-It may or may not rhyme
-Each line contains one thought describing the featured course with the last 1 syllable word expressing the writer’s feelings about the dish. To add drama, an exclamation point is always called for at the end.
I dedicate this one to all my foodie friends! 🙂
This photo is from Pinterest
Drunken Noodling
Pepper infused, savory
veggies lightly tossed
drunken noodles sweating steam
aromatic pot
culinary treat
slippery
hot!kat ~ 15 April 2016
Poet-Speak
some see the world in syllables
they speak in an iambic tone
solitary souls, but not alone
a stanza’s pause, invisible
punctuated space in between
crystalline waves of  lucid dreams
brain soft-wired ethereal
meters mingled in rhyme explored
engaged in trysts with metaphors
delightful musings, lyrical
syncopated rhythm flowing
poet’s tender voice bestowing
visions of all things beautiful
in syncopated streams of words
twenty-six letters, nouns and verbs
kat – 15 April 2016
For Jane Dougherty’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, a Constanza, consisting of five or more 3-line stanzas. Each line has a set meter of eight syllables. The first lines of all the stanzas can be read successively as an independent poem, with the rest of the poem weaved in to express a deeper meaning. The first lines convey a theme written in monorhyme, while the second and third lines of each stanza rhyme together.
Rhyme scheme: a/b/b, a/c/c, a/d/d, a/e/e, a/f/f………etc.
Wafflestompers – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
Happy Friday!
Well…here’s a word for you…WAFFLESTOMPERS! Today’s dictionary.com word of the day hails to us from 1970’s Americana.
This late middle-aging flower child of the 70’s must admit, I have never heard this word before. It could be that I spent most of the 70’s barefooted; tripping through fields of daisy’s chasing butterflies…or it may be my insane fear of heights! Either way, it is no wonder I never had a need for a pair of wafflestompers!
But given that it is today’s word of the day…and a very high-in-syllable word at that…I shall do my best, despite my obvious inexperience, to render the wafflestomper its proper homage in a contrived haiku. Three lines, syllables 5-7-5…anything but profound with a touch of thesaurus mischief! Have a great weekend folks!
Wafflestomping
Intrepid trekkers
don high-top wafflestompers
To reach a climax.kat ~ 15 April 2016
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