Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with picture), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, V is for ...Verse. “Verse poetry can come in different forms such as free verse or blank verse. A free verse poem has no set meter; the contents flow freely to the author’s design. A blank verse poem has no rhyming theme, but it does involve an iambic pentameter which is a meter of ten syllables such as the plays written by William Shakespeare.“

Not Today

Today is not a good day
for writing poetry

Today is a day
for coughing and congestion
fever and headaches

I will write a better poem
tomorrow.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter V.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with picture), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, U is for ...How can there be no forms of poetry beginning with U? The only option I can find is called an Ubi-Sunt. “A medieval commonplace that reveals the mutability of all things, the loss of all through death, by posing a series of questions that ask where the strong, the beautiful, and the good have gone.”

Where do we go now?
Now that we are dead
and dust and ashes?

Where are those that came before?
Only in graveyards
and buried in war-torn fields.

Where do the beautiful and the good go at the end?
Into the same ground,
Under the same trees,
marked by the same stone
as us all.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter U.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with picture), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, T is for ...Tetractys “Tetractys, a poetic form consisting of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20). Tetractys can be written with more than one verse, but must follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Tetractys can also be reversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1. Double Tetractys maybe written as: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, and a Triple Tetractys as: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10.“

On Hold

Hold
For you
we play tunes
to entertain
now wait until they entertain no more

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter T.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…