Awit

The Awit is a Filipino poetry form explained below by Judi Van Gorder

On her wonderful PMO resource site:

• Awit literally means song. This stanzaic form seems very similar to the Tanaga. It is unique in that a stanza should be one complete, grammatically correct, sentence.
  
  The Awit is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
• a narrative, it tells a story.
• dodecasyllabic, 12 syllables per line, there is usually a pause after the 6th syllable.
• rhymed, each stanza mono-rhymed aaaa bbbb cccc etc.
• composed with each stanza representing a complete, grammatically correct, sentence.
• composed liberally using various figures of speech.
• written anonymously.

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My example of a single stanza poem

The Climb     (Awit)

I started up the hills, intending on that day

to climb like deer to plateaus where the rocks gave way

to grasses lush and green, above where wild hawks play,

and ended up on top- above all human fray.

© Lawrencealot - March 3, 2014

Monotetra

The monotetra is a new poetic form developed by Michael Walker. Each stanza contains four lines in monorhyme. Each line is in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of eight syllables. What makes the monotetra so powerful as a poetic form, is that the last line contains two metrical feet, repeated. It can have as few as one or two stanzas, or as many as desired.

Stanza Structure:

Line 1: 8 syllables; A1

Line 2: 8 syllables; A2

Line 3: 8 syllables; A3

Line 4: 4 syllables, repeated; A4, A4 

Example Poem

Collaboration     ( Monotetra)

My gramp brought me a valentine.

To give to mommy and it's just fine.

I'm four years old and it's all mine.

A valentine. A valentine.

It's got a heart and teddy bear

To show my mom how much I care.

A tiny voice came from nowhere,

"I've got no flair." "I've got no flair."

Somehow that card said words to me.

"I'm not as fine as I can be.

I need more personality"

that she can see, that she can see."

"With your help lad, I'll be much more.

I'll be a card that she'll adore."

I'll not be common anymore!

Accept this chore.  Accept this chore."

With a crayon I wrote just "my"

after "Mom".   She is my own, that's why.

I signed Tommy then heard card sigh.

I don't know why, I don't know why.

The card she's kept for all this time.

A priceless card that cost a dime.

Mom says I made the value climb

with my first rhyme, with my first rhyme.

© Lawrencealot - February 9, 2013

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Atrina

The ATRINA form was Invented by Keith Metcalf Drew of AllPoetry.

The poem consists of four verses, the first three verses are constructed of four lines.

Each line consists of 8 beats.

The first and last lines in each verse are exactly the same.

The third line in each verse is of similar wording to the second line or reversed i however prefer it if you use the same words but reversed.

Then when you have written the three verses.

The fourth verse consists of the first two lines from each of the three verses.

Here is an example:

AN ATRINA:

Her heart it pales in shades of grey,

The pain inside to ever stay,

Inside the pain to ever stay,

Her heart it pales in shades of grey,

Reciting all the poems she’d read,

The lover lost within her bed,

Lost the lover within her bed,

Reciting all the poems she’d read,

And deep within she still believes,

The angels keep her heart its grief,

The grief her heart the angels keep,

And deep within she still believes,

Her heart it pales in shades of grey,

The pain inside to ever stay,

Reciting all the poems she’d read,

The lover lost within her bed,

And deep within she still believes.

The angels keep her heart its grief.

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 Example Poem

From the Mist    (Atrina)

A love like yours is heaven's gift.

It saved a soul that was adrift.

A soul was saved that was adrift.

A love like yours is heaven's gift.

You came to me out of the mist.

Your lips demanding to be kissed.

Your lips expecting to be kissed.

You came to me out of the mist.

I left mere mortals on the shore

to be with you forever more.

with you I'll be forever more.

I left mere mortals on the shore.

A love like yours is heaven's gift.

It saved a soul that was adrift.

You came to me out of the mist.

Your lips demanding to be kissed.

I left mere mortals on the shore

to be with you forever more.

© Lawrencealot - March 10, 2013

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Twisted End

The Twisted End form is a creation of Nichole Alexander.

This is a stanzaic poem consisting of four or five tercet stanzas.

Each stanza has independent monorhyme.

There is no line-length or meter requirement.

The defining requirement of the form is that some part  of each of the first two lines be "twisted"

together in forming the third stanza line which MUST INCLUDE INTERNAL RHYME.

Example Poem

Write a Twisted End   (Twisted End)

You must depend on rhyme as your good friend

with mono and internal rhyme to blend

depend on your internal rhyme to end.

The Twisted End sets forth no metric tone.

but permits choice if poet is so prone.

The Twisted End my friend permits your own.

No poetic device is disallowed.

A verse endowed will rise above the crowd.

Device endowed attempts should make one proud.

Alliterate or write with metaphor

or obfuscate and be a common boor.

Allit with wit makes common a bit more.

 © Lawrencealot - March 13, 2013

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