Sewing Pins, ID PINs…
What do they have in common?
I don’t know…I’m stuck!
I use the same PIN
Then it’s only one number
For me to forget!
~kat – 18 April 2016
A few Haiku for TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge. The prompt is Pin. Read other Haiku HERE.
Today’s form come to us from Andrea Dietrich, who created the HexSonetta, a variation of the sonnet that blends elements of Italian and English traditional sonnet forms. Rather than the familiar iambic pentameter, ten syllable/five foot form, the HexSonetta is a trimeter employing an iambic rhythm using only six syllables/three feet. The “hex” stands for the syllable count of each line…six. Like a sonnet it has 14 lines divided into two stanzas. Additionally, there is a final couplet at the end, intended as a summary. Or you may even use the couplet for a “twist” from the theme.
Here are the rules of a HexSonetta:
Meter: Trimeter
Rhyme Scheme: a/b/b/a/a/b c/d/d/c/c/d e/e
Here is my take on the HexSonetta:
Muse
She hovers in the mist
at dawn, to whisper her
sweet nothings in my ear
oh, I cannot resist
our secret morning trysts
her voice is bliss to hear.
And in our reverie
she fills my hollow head
with lovely words she’s read
on waves of tranquil seas,
the leaves of ancient trees
and tears of sorrow shed.
No poet can refuse
to entertain a Muse!
~ kat ~ 18 April 2016
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
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.
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
like mercury colliding... 