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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Phyquain


Form Created by John Madison Shaw, Sr., aka Arkbear on Allpoetry
MUST have 5 Quatrains -
No Set Line length
No Set Meter
The Nth line of each quatrain must rhyme with each other.
Letter use restrictions.

No letter ( a ) in 1st L of each Q -
No letter ( b ) in 2nd L of each Q -
No letter ( c ) in 3rd L of each Q -
No letter ( d ) in 4th L of each Q -
ALL 1st L's must have same end Rhyme -
ALL 2nd L's must have same end Rhyme -
ALL 3rd L's must have same end Rhyme -
ALL 4th L's must have same end Rhyme -

Flow is a MUST!
Metaphors are a MUST!
Beautiful Poetic voice is a MUST!
There can be no fixed template for the form, for line length is NOT specified
Most I have seen have been pentameter or longer. 

Since one can choose any line-length and meter
I have chosen Iambic tetrameter for this work.


Example Poem

Absurdlutely My Beloved    (Phyquain)

I'll mow my way through drive-way snow
I'll shovel  through the growing grass
I'll throw the pigs at angry birds
or fly-fish somewhere in a blimp.

I'll cry when comedy's the show
and laugh at church and scratch my ass.
I'll roller skate in buff'lo herds
I'll teach ballooning to a shrimp.

I might return before I go,
or teach at school that has no class
or write a poem without words
or book a nun that needs a pimp.

I might invite the firefly's glow
to brighten up each underpass
or make all homeboys into nerds.
I could teach rattlesnakes to primp.

These I might do, you'll never know.
However you will be my lass
forever plus about two-thirds.
Always will I remain your imp.

© Lawrencealot - January 22, 2013


Since one can choose any line-length and meter
I have chosen Iambic tetrameter for this work.

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