Style Poem Contest!

Ok, so here's how it's going to be.

I want you, the poets to write me a poem there is only one requirment:

It has to be a set style.

I don't care if you write me a short and sweet Haiku, or senryu, a gorgeous sonnet or ballad...well, you get the picture. There is no set topic...write about ANYTHING. Aswell, you must state the style that you are using and explain the format.

Now that you have the requirements, here are the rules:

1. The poem cannot be free verse!
2. One poem per poet.
3. Each poem is to be 40 lines or less.
4. It can be newly written or old...I don't care.
(well, that's not really a rule, but oh well)

OK, so the deadline is....a week from now, Saturday, June 24.

So get to it and let me see some poems!!

Forgive And Forget [Triolet]

I will not forgive and forget,
It is not that easy to do.
I've lived all my life in regret,
I will not forgive and forget.
Everyday you make me upset,
Because of what you put me though.
I will not forgive and forget,
It is not that easy to do.

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A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of
only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st,
4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd
and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme
scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital
letters representing the repeated lines.
Make each line 8 syllables in length.
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Copyright © Natalie, 2006

{Hope that's okay}

OK I'm going to do one, but Im going to write it new so I'll do that on Word. But I have a comment...In the instructions it says you don't care the legnth, then in the rules is says 40 lines or less....
Mine arent near 40 lines but still...I thought it was lightly contradictive

[PygmyPuff]

(Kyrielle Sonnet)
Prophecy

The song of tears washed away
Withered to a woeful dismay
Drench the world in a cascade
Where heaven's last light laid

Mournful voyage to all man kind
Enlightment perish in dying mind
Drifting from where love was made
Where heaven's last light laid

Vast oceans drown in pouring blood
Cities conquered by mightly flood
Defenseless against enemies raid
Where heaven's last light laid

A Song of tears Washed away
Where heaven's last light laid

~ My Rose, Release a Petal New [Triolet] ~

To know the fate my heart feels not,
my rose, release a petal new.
Must I submit she too forgot,
to know the fate my heart feels not?

I tremble with that change in thought,
Condemned this rose to tell me true;
To know the fate my heart feels not,
my rose, release a petal new?

(My first Triolet, hope it passes the test - a challenge for sure!)

Ok I don't know if this is free verse...I mean I guess it is, but I don't know if it'll still be judged.
Its an Etheree. This consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. An etheree can
also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I did a double where it goes up, then back down.

*Run*
Run,
Come on!
Come faster.
I need you now.
Don't leave me again.
You never left my heart.
This voyage, it never ends.
Together we shall always be.
Despite the current beneith our feet,
Pulling us down, deep into the water.
Trying to keep us away from ourselves.
So take my hand and run with me!
There is no need to stay here,
Just to be kept apart!
We can make it through
Insanity.
Together,
We can
Run

[PygmyPuff]

Good job guys!

And just for a side note, I did not say that I don't care about the length, I simply was using the word short to describe the Haiku or Senryu style. Also, PygmyPuff (and anyone else who doesn't get it) when I said free verse, I meant no set format.

Anyways, that's enough from me.

It is a series of 6 couplets divided into 3 stanzas.

~Burnout~

It's hard to gauge all this rage that I feel.
It's hard to cage all this anger that's real.
It's hard to contain all this pain that's inside,
but inside me forever, this pain will reside.

I feel that things around me are moving too fast.
My body is in the future, while my mind's in the past.
Problems from before hurt me now even more.
This isn't just a battle, it's an eternal war.

An internal war that cannot be let out.
A raging fire that will never burnout.
Although, I wish this pain never came,
I refuse to become just another derailed train.

~Sean Dohr~

Autumn's Song (Kyrielle Sonnet)

Drift across the grains of Time
To the sway of a crystal chime
With the silver notes of the night
Dance beneath the Autumn twilight

Between the orange and red hues
That the dusk will quietly use
Take a breath of peaceful respite
Dance beneath the Autumn twilight

Hear the song so calm and yet free
The siren call of serenity
The softest of the birds take flight
Dance beneath the Autumn twilight

Drift across the grains of Time
Dance beneath the Autumn twilight

Eagle -sedoka, 2 stanza 5/7/7-

A single eagle...
Such beauty and elegance...
Symbol of America...

Only it can be
America's pride and joy.
Bold and strong as WE should be.

As The Stream Runs By [5 Haikus]
by ¤• נєѕѕу •¤ ™

As the stream runs by
It splashes and shines with grace
Leaving you enthralled..

The stunning movement
Of dazzling water flowing
Shocks the eyes of us..

She swirls and twinkles
In the golden rays of sun
Leaving behind all..

The pretty blossoms
Of startling trees far and wide
Float in her waters..

And as we gaze close
We see the beauty clearly
Always flowing by..
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Haiku:
A Japanese verse with three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5, syllable count
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hope its okayy! :)

ugh...I want to know the winners
-laughs-

I reworked mine to eliminate some over the top cliches....hope that's ok. The poem is still as intended I just re-phrased some of it.

-DM

Lights
by Sean Allen

Fountain that grows in size
to the flowers' great delight:
morning light.
Reincarnation of the
evening star that fell;
its intensity foretells
a future that is bright.

And so it dies again
in a sort of Pagan rite:
failing light.
before leaving it gives
a final great swell;
before the nighttime death-knell
the sky it does ignite.

Shining overhead on
the fey creatures of the night:
gentle light.
The milky quiet glow
reaches out to quell
darkness's final spell of
unreasonable fright.

Tips of warming orange
with a center of pure white:
crimson light.
Reminiscent of the flames
of that torrent Hell.
What silent lie do they tell
as they reach their great height:
the burning blight?

4 stanzas, first 3 have 7 lines, last one has 8:

rhyme scheme:
a b B c d d b
e b B f d d b
g b B h d d b
i b B j d d b

the capital Bs mean that the rhyming word remains the same, doesn't mean the entire line is repeated.

Night
Black sky
Moon glows bright

Treasured mystery
Clouds of luster pearl loom
Lantern hanging in the sky

"Night" by HeartzOnIce aka Just Rain, in the Clarity Pyramid format.

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Clarity Pyramid: The clarity pyramid is yet another short Asian poetry form. It consists of 7 lines with the syllable count of 1-2-3-5-6-7-8.

The structure is as follows:

Line 1: Noun (1 syllable) [Also used as the title]
Line 2: A word that describes the noun (2 syllables)
Line 3: Another word that describes the noun (3 syllables)

Line 4: Description of line 1 (5 syllables)
Line 5: Description of line 2 (6 syllables)
Line 6: Description of line 3 (7 syllables)

Line 7: A quotation, self made or otherwise that defines the title (8 syllables)

Rhyming is optional and no limitation is set on the subject matter. The last line is put within quotation marks.
_______taken from the p&q article... at this source: http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/article.html?id=42

One more day, to post your poems!! ^_^

Get to it! :D

hmm well i have written a few sonnets so i guess i will just submit one....doo doo doo

Clouds

White like winter snow or the whites of eyes
Drifting leisurely through the heavens blue
Some translucent like pools of frozen ice
Taking on shapes of all things, old and new

Water's breath billowing in steady stride
Whispering in the cool wind by and by
Peter's ship drifting, changing like the tide
So remote, capturing planes in the sky

Blocking sun in daylight, stars in darkness
Evaporation pulled up from the sea
Becomes fog causing accidental mess
But most of all, white mist destined to be

Anything imagination can mold
All minds equally able; young and old

lalala tadah!

ok so that is a sonnet which means: 3 stanzas of 4 lines, every other line rhyming and the 4th stanza a rhyming couplet. also, every line is exactly 10 syllables. go ahead and count! 14 lines total. i know the topic is boring, but hopefully that does not matter too much.

ok, i dun really know the style names, and i hope that doesnt mean i cannot win since i dun kno wat 2 cal it, but i did the same type of poem as Sean Dohr. if u want me 2 get rid of it, just let me kno, ok?

I'm so sick of life, so sick of pain,
So sick of being forced to walk in the rain.
So sick of heartbreak, so sick of you,
Sick of the dreams my head makes all night through.

So Sick

I thought you cared, but now I'm so sick,
You said you loved me, but changed your mind quick.
So sick of sadness, so sick of my tears,
Thought you came to save me from my fears.

Thanks for the extra stress you've added on,
Because I'm still so sick and sad that you're gone.
Have a nice life, say hi to your new girlfriend for me,
Soon she'll be so sick too, and she will agree.

yayy! are we judging soon?

it says in the rules that judgin is 2morro.....

oh.. riite.. tehee.. sorry, im a little slow.. :P

HeartzOnIce...I just have to ask:
What exactly is the last line of your poem? I can't seem to find it.

Well...here goes!

The winners are as follows:

1st place goes to ~*NoniWang*~ for the kyrielle sonnet named "Prophecy."

2nd to Kim for her Kyrielle sonnet called "Autumn's song."

3rd to Sean Allen fo his poem with a nameless format, entitled "Lights."

I think I found my new favorite style is the kyrielle sonnet (it's so damned pretty!)

Anyway, prizes are as follows:

~*NoniWang*~ gets 4 comments/votes

Kim gets 3

and Sean Allen, 2

You can specify which ones you want commented, btw.

Good job, everyone! Thanks for participating and I hope that you all do so with my next contest. Until then, I bid you all adieu!

Jordan P

w00t, good job everyone. Jordan, if you can find poems you haven't commented of mine... go ahead. =P

Woo. :/ I didn't win. Haha!

Congrats to the winners lol!!!

Done, Sean...

Anyone else? Or should I just go ahead and sift through on my own?

Yay!

Please r/c

-Children of the World
-Under the Cherry Tree
-Diamonds last forever
-Our World Now

Yay! Congrats to all the winners, the poems were fabulous. You can just pick some randomly Jordan ^_^ Thanks!

~forbidden eyes~...the stupid site will not let me comment on 2 of your poems, those being "Under the Cherry Tree" and "Diamonds Last Forever." I don't know why but it is a very rare occurence that I can comment on love poems...the site hates me or somethihng. Would You like to pick 2 more, or should I just go ahead and comment on any random 2 poems?

How about

Beautiful Death
It still LIves

Alright! All poems are commented.

Good job, you are all beautiful poets!

good job every:D