Favorite Poetic Form?

[LadynStFreknBed]

I was wondering if many Literotica poets have a favorite poetic form?

Personally, I love to write villanelles. Haiku are fun, because they come so easy, like when I'm driving.

-Sheila

 

[Picodiribibi]

I was wondering if many Literotica poets have a favorite poetic form?

Personally, I love to write villanelles. Haiku are fun, because they come so easy, like when I'm driving.

-Sheila

I didn't understand the beauty of the villanelle until this one made me see the light. I still get pleasant chills whenever I read it.

Now writing them is another story...

 

[Angeline]

I love the sonnet because it has remained such a popular form through the centuries and has been stretched in very interesting ways by so many disparate poets. From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Milay to Neruda and Rilke, Ted Berrigan and Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins, everyone takes a whack at them at some point. And I find them really easy to write. Once you get iambic pentameter and the rhyme pattern down, it's like remembering the tune of a song. You just drop in new lyrics.

The other form I have come to really appreciate is the Glosa. I've seen some beautiful ones, and it's a wonderful way to pay hommage to a writer you love. I've written a handful of them. Here's one I wrote using a verse from a Thomas Hardy poem.

To others she appeared anew
At times of dusky light,
But always, so they told, withdrew
From close and curious sight.
~ Thomas Hardy

To others she appeared anew each dawn,
trod her widow's watch above the sea
and cast her gaze along the jagged beach.
She did not look beyond the tide for me

among the ships that passed. At times
of dusky light when waking day triumphs
the stars perhaps she breathed my name
against the wind, shared secrets with the coast,

but always, so they told, withdrew
into the dewy glass. They say she
is a ghost. I am. There is nothing here
save a barren house, sand and sky
where gull cries herald shadowed flight.

She is the voice of fog, they whisper
when they turn away from close
and curious sight.​

And, to my thinking, the hardest form to write is the sestina bcause you have to struggle through 36 lines before you're done!

Well, except maybe for the paradelle, which I actually tried to write until I discovered the reason it's so difficult is that Billy Collins created the uber-tricky form as a parody.

 

[WickedEve]

terzanelle

"A terzanelle is a poetry form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima."

 

[The_Fool]

I created the form called a Vile Sonnet once. I have to find that form again and make Ange write another one.

As long as it doesn't start with an "S," I can hang with it...

 

[hmmnmm]

I'd hate to know just how obvious my ignorance of form is. Should study it. But it's too much fun just messing around and see how they come out. I love the idea of feeling my way as I go. Sometimes I set out to do a paragraph/prose poem, but it pulls itself into stanzas. Sometimes the words jump up from stanzas into a prose form. It's like the buggers are alive or something. Fascinating.

 

[Tzara]

"A terzanelle is a poetry form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima."

I love Eve's terzanelles, however much they are no longer here. They were excellenté, when they were.

Mine own preference is for the triolet, which is a simple form. Why, probably, I like it. It's easy to compose. Think of two lines? You're mostly done.

It's odd, though. I now want Virginia terzanelles and Jersey sonnets.

Yeah. Want and whine.

 

[wildsweetone]

Free verse.

my absolute favourite poetic form.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

I love Eve's terzanelles, however much they are no longer here.

I missed them? Eve, I'd really like to read one...

 

[sellthecookie]

wow, im reading new names of poetic forms and words i didn't know before.
all im familiar with are haiku and sonnet.

i still go for free verse, which is the anti-form poem

 

[TheRainMan]

my favorite poetic form?

i'm torn between the sfogliatella and the homo sapien czeckoslovacus femalia . . . the latter usually wins.

you be the judge.

http://www.gwiv.com/FerraraSfogliatella.jpg

 

[WickedEve]

I missed them? Eve, I'd really like to read one...

Nope.

Actually, you need to read an Angeline terzanelle. I'm not sure if she has any online, but they are very good. And it seems to me that someone else wrote some that were really good. Can't remember who, though.

 

[Angeline]

my favorite poetic form?

i'm torn between the sfogliatella and the homo sapien czeckoslovacus femalia . . . the latter usually wins.

you be the judge.

http://www.gwiv.com/FerraraSfogliatella.jpg

MMMM sfogliatella. Although I really, really love pasticiotti, but I couldn't find a pic of one. When I take ee to meet New Joisey, we're heading straight for the Little Italy Bakery. They even have chocolate pasticiotti there. Be still my fluttering heart.

 

[Angeline]

I created the form called a Vile Sonnet once. I have to find that form again and make Ange write another one.

As long as it doesn't start with an "S," I can hang with it...

I'm not programmed to write villesonnets alone. Only with you baby.

 

[Guest]

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[LadynStFreknBed]

Ouch!

Well, someone did not like my new villanelle! Ouch! Maybe they are just not fans of that form. LOL

 

[champagne1982]

I created the form called a Vile Sonnet once. I have to find that form again and make Ange write another one.

As long as it doesn't start with an "S," I can hang with it...

Ange's ville-sonnet. Fool's rules are in a post I made on page 2, but don't look for his VileSonnet since he didn't post one

Here are the vile sonnet rules for this thread. It was pretty cool to write one

Villa-Sonnet

Iambic Pentameter of course....

Lines A1 and A2 are repeated. A rhymes with A1 and A2. B doesn't.....

A1
B
B
A2
B
B
A1
A
B
B
A2
A
B
B
A1
A2

 

[champagne1982]

I like free form poetry, I'm most comfortable writing it, but I also like Stop shorts, classic Chinese poetry such as in tsa-shih and chüeh-chü. It's the spareness and economy of words in these forms that appeals to me. Thomas Catterson, also known as peppersdance who passed away in December 2003, introduced me to the form and I've enjoyed reading and writing it ever since.

Miss you, pepper and all your stop shorts.

Free verse can sometimes be the most difficult poetry for me to write. There is such a variety in vocabulary and poetic devices availabe that to sift through and make the perfect poem, without cliche, can take me days and days.

Form poetry has done half of the work for you; outlining rhyme, metre and length, usually. All the poet needs to do is fit words into the frame and dress it up. Free verse doesn't provide the good bones to work with and can wind up looking like a genetic mutant that should never be allowed to breed.

 

[Angeline]

Free verse can sometimes be the most difficult poetry for me to write. There is such a variety in vocabulary and poetic devices availabe that to sift through and make the perfect poem, without cliche, can take me days and days.

Form poetry has done half of the work for you; outlining rhyme, metre and length, usually. All the poet needs to do is fit words into the frame and dress it up. Free verse doesn't provide the good bones to work with and can wind up looking like a genetic mutant that should never be allowed to breed.

We could make the villesonnet (or just the sonnet) part of the July challenge thread. We almost never do anything with form poetry in the challenges. I guess that's because people bitch that form poetry is a) too hard to write, b) archaic or c) both. But that's not true. I agree with you they're actually *easier* to compose because you have a template for the structure.

 

[WickedEve]

Well, someone did not like my new villanelle! Ouch! Maybe they are just not fans of that form. LOL

Friendly Indulgence isn't bad at all.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Oh, thank you. I guess as a newbie, I still question my work.. (not that that will ever change). But, when I saw my rating today, I was like, "Does it really suck or was it attacked by trolls?" LOL

 

[Angeline]

Friendly Indulgence isn't bad at all.

I just read it too and, no, it's not bad at all. Did someone one-bomb the poem, Lady? That happens to everyone here. Some people seem to derive pleasure from doing that and/or writing pretty nasty comments. Try not to let it get to you--it's just trolls with too much time on their hands.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Yeah, I must have gotten a 1-bomb. I'm still trying to understand what happens with the sweeps. Do they remove all the 1-bombs?
Since poems don't get nearly as many votes as stories, 1-bombs can be lethal. LOL With my stories, I don't worry so much. A 1 among 70 votes is nothing.

 

[Angeline]

Yeah, I must have gotten a 1-bomb. I'm still trying to understand what happens with the sweeps. Do they remove all the 1-bombs?
Since poems don't get nearly as many votes as stories, 1-bombs can be lethal. LOL With my stories, I don't worry so much. A 1 among 70 votes is nothing.

I'm not exactly sure what they do during sweeps. I know they do them periodically to try to counteract the effects of trolls or, alternitively, people getting all their pals to give them high scores to increase their chances of winning contests. Lauren Hynde knows the most about it here. I'm sure if she sees that the question has come up she'll come in and address it.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

I'm not exactly sure what they do during sweeps. I know they do them periodically to try to counteract the effects of trolls or, alternitively, people getting all their pals to give them high scores to increase their chances of winning contests.

Yeah, I was wondering about how they judge the 5's as legit too. I'm sure I've had friends rate my story a 5 after I asked them to read it, as I'm sure other authors have friends who do the same. But, recruiting votes to win the contest would make the contest meaningless.
No matter what happens with my contest entry, I've really enjoyed the feedback and comments from readers and other authors. They can stop nagging me for the next chapter though. LOL I'm working on it! LOL