Soft-Songed Tercet

Soft-Songed Tercet

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement, Simple
Description:	This form has four requirements. It is iambic. The schema is: xxxxxa xxxxxbxxxxxb xxxxxa There must be an unusual image or turn of phrase. It must have a soft feel to it. There is also a multi-stanza form called the soft-songed triplet.
Schematic:	Rhyme/Syllable: xxxxxa xxxxxbxxxxxb xxxxxa Meter: xX xX xX

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Thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the wonderful resource.

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• Soft Songed Tercet is an invented verse form found at Poetry Base that has an unusual request, the verse must have a "soft feel".
  
  The Soft Songed Tercet is:
• a tristich, a poem in 3 lines. When written in more than one tercet the form is oddly named the Soft Songed Triplet. ("Tercet" is 3 line unit as is a "triplet", both of which can be written in any number within a poem. The words are often used interchangeably however, the classic English "triplet" is usually monorhymed. So technically the name Soft Songed Tercet properly should apply to both a single tristich or the stanzaic form of any number of tercets.)
• metered, iambic, L1 &L3 are trimeter, L2 is hexameter.
• rhymed, rhymed a(bb)a L2 has internal rhyme.
• composed with an unusual image.
• composed with a "soft feel".
  x x x x x a
  x x x x x b x x x x x b
  x x x x x a
  
  Furry Fix by jvg
  
  Silky fluff warms my palm
  as I cup a small plump rabbit waiting to jump
  free. Its fine fur a balm.

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Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the wonderful resource.

Example Poem

Fluppet

So fluffy I've been made

I'll bring your daughter joy - become her favorite toy,

she'll never be afraid.

© Lawrencealot - February 6, 2014

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Pixiku

Pixiku

Monday, January 21, 2013

11:28 AM

Pixiku is a poetry form Invented by  Alice E. P. Stephenson, aka SEA_angle on Allpoetry.

The plural of PIXIKU is PIXIKU just as the plural of HAIKU is HAIKU.

Pixiku is THREE line poetry 

(Wild child of Haiku and Senryu).

PIXIKU have no syllable count. Capital letters okay. 

Since we all have something quotable to say once in awhile.

Pixiku, Haiku or Senryu Around The World.  (Up to You.)

HAIKU about nature

SENRYU about everything else

(Lower case. Maximum syllable count 17 syllables.)

PIXIKU is all encompassing with NO syllable count...

(Upper case okay in a Pixiku.)

The following are PIXIKU examples by the inventor

IN YOUR LIFE

You are the star

Your decisions have your autograph

Consequences reflect your character

THE GIFT OF YOU 

Did you know that not only is

Today a gift since the present

YOU are a gift being present

PIXIKU INSTRUCTIONS:

P ixiku is a 3 line poem; original personal quote (thought)

I nvented by poet SEA angel

X eno to poetry and the wild child of Haiku and Senryu

I nvites your life experience self expression etc.

K eeping a syllable count or lower case not required 

U p to you how you set up 3 lines to express your message

Related Forms: Alphabet Haiku,  Crystalline,  Haibun,  Haiga,  Haiku,  Haikuette,  Kimo, Lune, Pixiku, Rhaiku, Sijo, Ukiah, Zip

Example Poem by Lawrencelot

There are just under billion people

alive on the earth today

and you are related to everyone of them by DNA.

(C) Lawrencealot - September 19, 2012

Alphabet Haiku

Modern haiku form created by  Beatrice Evans, aka Ronnica at Allpoetry
It requires only strict 5 7 5 syllable construction
with all words beginning with the same letter.

There is no requirement for aha moment and punctuation and metaphor and photos are permitted.

Example Poems

Train track talisman

telling tardy trains that the

tapestry takes time.

Taciturn tableau

 tamed, tree-trunk's tight tendrils tie--

throttle tampering.

(c) Lawrencealot - Feb 23, 2013


 Related Forms: Alphabet Haiku,  Crystalline,  Haibun,  Haiga,  Haiku,  Haikuette,  Kimo, Lune, Pixiku, Rhaiku, Sijo, Ukiah, Zip

Dekazz

Inventor, Rachel Bagby
Dekaaz has ten syllables in three lines:
2 syllables in the first line, 3 syllables in the second, 5 syllable

I merely add this to keep my list as complete as possible.

Example Poem

Dekazz

Touted
as a tool
for powerful notes.

(c) Lawrencealot

Solage

Solage is a specific form of humorous verse with the following properties:

• It has three lines (called the hook, the line and the sinker) of irregular length.
• The rhyming structure is AAB.
• The third line is a pun based on the previous two lines.

The form was invented by the Melbourne-based performance poet Cameron M. Semmens.

Examples

If you don't care a bit

Where your arrow hit...

Aim less

They did not mishandle

Creating the scandal:

Proper-gate

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Englyn Milwr

The traditional Welsh form Englyn Milwr (soldier’s englyn):  three 7-syllable lines rimed on the last syllable.  (Englynion are short epigrammatic verses.)  Further, it has theCynghanedd required of a Welsh bard, in this case Cynghanedd Groes(cross consonance), where the second part of the line repeats the sequence of consonant sounds in the first part (n can be ignored, as can the sounds at the end of the last syllable of either part, while w and y are treated as vowels).

Eyes ask sweetly; nose seeks tail;
 she purrs soft, a show:  prize sale!
 With man so fooled, the mice flail.

Example Poem

Obama Care

O-care cuts the doctors' pay,
deigns to proscribe doctors' play.
Mine says "Why?", and moves away.


© Lawrencealot - Edited December 10,2012



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Haiku

HAIKU is both singular and plural.

A Japanese form designed to be small and concise by limiting the number of lines and the number of syllables in a line. Japanese haiku are three-line poems with the first and the third line having five syllables and the middle having seven syllables. English-language Haiku may be shorter than seventeen syllables, though some poets prefer to keep to the 5-7-5 format.

A true is much more than a poem is 5-7-5 format.

• Use concise, simple and clear language
• Write in two sections, using a fragment and a phrase
• Use sense images, in particular what you see or hear
• Write in the present tense
• Compare or contrast two different images as juxtapositions
• Try to include a seasonal reference
• Write in 17 syllables or less, preferably between 8-12
• Use minimal (if any) punctuation
• Try to make your haiku open-ended and evocative
• Try not make judgments or express your opinions
• Limit your use of adjectives and try not to use adverbs
• Do not use rhyme, simile, metaphor or personification
• There is no need for capital letters, except for proper nouns

And there are many Haiku knock-offs:
Related Forms: Alphabet Haiku,  Crystalline,  Haibun,  Haiga,  Haiku,  Haikuette,  Kimo, Lune, Pixiku, Rhaiku, Sijo, Ukiah, Zip

Example Poems

voluptuous wife approaches -
low-cut gown
perfume excites


dog on lap
puppy barks -
two dogs on lap

(c) Lawrencealot - 

SIJO

SIJO  (from Shadow Poetry Handbook)
A short Korean poetry form consisting of three lines,
each line having a total of 14-16 syllables in four groups
ranging from 2 to 7 (but usually 3 or 4) syllables, with a natural pause at the end of the second group and a major pause after the fourth group.

The third line often introduces a resolution, a touch of humor, or a turn of thought.

Nature is often the subject matter of these poems like traditional haiku."

Either narrative or thematic,
this lyric verse introduces a truth (perhaps a problem) in line 1,
development (called a turn) in line 2,
and a strong conclusion beginning with a surprise (a twist) in line 3,
which resolves tensions or questions raised by the other lines
and provides a memorable ending.


Example Poem

Surprise Test

Trained by nature over time, learned and changed my DNA. 

Teacher springs surprise exam; tough, could be season ending. 

Snow bonnet fends off freezing adds resilience to my beauty. 

 (C) Lawrencealot - July 23, 2012

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