A lone flower wilts,
Sun shifts beams smiling upon
its petals giving life.
Rain pelts earthly growth,
too much washes life away,
leaves mud it its wake.
Bright skies lift spirits,
breezes sing sweet songs of joy,
now warmth reigns anew.
Woosh of waves soften
sleepy sand as it hastens
building dunes upright.
Dreamy pink hazy
lands of slumber kiss eyelids
closed as night reclines.
Tag: haiku
Types of Poems
Here are a few types of poems I thought you might be interested in. There are more, but I went with some common types that people enjoy writing more often. They range in difficulty. For more information about each, you can go to www.Google.com
| Type | Definition | # of Lines | # Syllables Per line | Rhyme Scheme |
| Haiku | An ancient form of Japanese poetry. Small in size | 3 lines | line one has 5 line two has 7 line three has 5 | none |
| Limerick | Are funny and sometimes rude. They have a set rhyme. The subject is a short, pithy tale or description | 5 lines | none | AABBA |
| Sonnet | A poem expressing a single, complete thought, idea or sentiment. There are two types: Petrarchan and Shakespearean | 14 lines | 10 (Iambic Pentameter) | Petrarchan Sonnet: ABBA, ABBA, CDECDE Shakespearean Sonnet: ABAB, CDCE, EFEF, GG |
| Free Verse | A popular style of modern poetry. It has a great amount of freedom when it comes to number of lines, cadence, and rhyme (if any) | varies | varies | varies |
| Villanelle | A short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number followed by a quatrain. | 19 lines | varies | ABA for the first 5 tercets. Line 1 from the first tercet gets repeated in line 3 of tercets 2 and 4. Line 3 from tercet 1 gets repeated in line 3 of tercets 3 and 5. In the stanza 6 (the quatrain at the end), lines 3 and 4 are lines 1 and 3 from the first tercet in order). |
| Blank Verse | Poetry written with a precise meter, often in iambic pentameter but doesn’t rhyme. | varies | 10 (Iambic pentameter) | none |
| Sestina | A poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in a different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end. | 39 lines | Iambic pentameter is optional. Otherwise there is none. | Line 1: ABCDEF Line 2: FAEBDC Line 3: CFDABE Line 4: ECBFAD Line 5: DEACFB Line 6: BDFECA |
| Tanka | A Japanese poem that means “short poem” | 5 lines | lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables. All other lines have 7 syllables. | none |
Love’s Haiku by L. M. Montes
Standing near a tree
I see you laugh heartily
warming the heart’s soul.
I step closer now,
hoping for chances to speak
to your being so strong.
A glance from your eyes
meets mine, staggers, and repeats
until you are rapt.
Without a thought you’re here
splaying love words lovingly
inside my minds ear.
The Face of Two by L. M. Montes
Sweet word candy speaks,
from which my heart now gains warmth,
laying on sand at sea.
I now embrace night,
a knife sings from a sweet sheath,
stabbing with a bite.
Time by L. M. Montes
O’er the waves we sail,
To slow time’s pace but do fail,
Futile to prevail.
Tragedy so strikes,
Time it slows no speed it likes,
Through the heart it spikes.
by L. M. Montes
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