Fifty traditional poetry forms - Part 5

[afishamongmany]

This, Part 5, should be the last in the series, Fifty-traditional-poetry-forms. These are the links to the other four parts.
Where are You?

Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 2

Fifty Traditional Poetry Forms - Part 3

Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 4

42 - Song Poem

The People's Song

Come let us sing the peoples song,
We'll chant it as we march along.
A new world order has come in,
So people, Dance and sing.
So people, Dance and sing.

Wave your banners against the skies.
Shout slogans that mesmerize.
The people are one! The people want fun!
They want someone to idolize.
They want someone to idolize.

When the peoples choice appears,
All the folk are going to cheer.
He'll act like a god and a king.
He's going to abolish sin.
He's going to abolish sin.

Oh many vile lies have been told.
Oh many lost souls have been sold.
But now that we humans have rights
The future will be so bright.
The future will be so bright.

So proud people of the world unite,
Never mind the wrong or the right.
Just sing the song and you'll belong,
As you march into the night.
As you march into the night.

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[Citizen of the Kingdom]

This, Part 5, should be the last in the series, Fifty-traditional-poetry-forms. These are the links to the other four parts.
Where are You?

Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 2

Fifty Traditional Poetry Forms - Part 3

Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 4

42 - Song Poem

The People's Song

Come let us sing the peoples song,
We'll chant it as we march along.
A new world order has come in,
So people, Dance and sing.
So people, Dance and sing.

Wave your banners against the skies.
Shout slogans that mesmerize.
The people are one! The people want fun!
They want someone to idolize.
They want someone to idolize.

When the peoples choice appears,
All the folk are going to cheer.
He'll act like a god and a king.
He's going to abolish sin.
He's going to abolish sin.

Oh many vile lies have been told.
Oh many lost souls have been sold.
But now that we humans have rights
The future will be so bright.
The future will be so bright.

So proud people of the world unite,
Never mind the wrong or the right.
Just sing the song and you'll belong,
As you march into the night.
As you march into the night.

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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be anyvirtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8

 

[Halbhh]

This, Part 5, should be the last in the series, Fifty-traditional-poetry-forms. These are the links to the other four parts.
Where are You?

Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 2

Fifty Traditional Poetry Forms - Part 3

Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 4

42 - Song Poem

The People's Song

Come let us sing the peoples song,
We'll chant it as we march along.
A new world order has come in,
So people, Dance and sing.
So people, Dance and sing.

Wave your banners against the skies.
Shout slogans that mesmerize.
The people are one! The people want fun!
They want someone to idolize.
They want someone to idolize.

When the peoples choice appears,
All the folk are going to cheer.
He'll act like a god and a king.
He's going to abolish sin.
He's going to abolish sin.

Oh many vile lies have been told.
Oh many lost souls have been sold.
But now that we humans have rights
The future will be so bright.
The future will be so bright.

So proud people of the world unite,
Never mind the wrong or the right.
Just sing the song and you'll belong,
As you march into the night.
As you march into the night.

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

 

[afishamongmany]

Ok after much faffing, cliiiiicking and hair tearing and tiiiiime I seem to have uploaded a playable audio file of The peoples song. I'm also going to put it on YouTube and post a link. As I say I'm not a singer or musician so you feel free to sing the song anyway you want.

You Tube link:--

*The sound quality is much much better on the zip - mp3 file*

 

[Greatcloud]

I can feel the meter of your song it has much merit. I like it a lot. I pictured a choir marching along and singing it. Be at peace-gc

 

[afishamongmany]

43 – Sonnet
Originating in Italy in the late 13th century, the sonnet was adapted and became popular in English from the 16th century onwards. The form is 14 lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyming scheme (at least for shakespearean sonnets) of abab cdcd efef dd.

Children

My children are no more, grown, gone from, to
A world now foreign for this fading soul.
Sometimes we meet and exchange points of view.
Too few the flowers from these late life strolls.
Their children now our watch, while wondering
The wonder of our loss, in small worlds found,
Worlds filled with naughtiness and questioning,
Where grown men gaily get the runaround.

Generations have learned to do this dance,
Where bright eyes lighten up the fading one.
His weariness assuaged by such a glance
While little lips and hands forge sweet union.

Sour souls they must be who would prefer
That such weariness and loss never were.

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[afishamongmany]

44 -Tanka
One of the oldest Japanese forms, tanka originated in the seventh century. The Japanese tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. The english adaptation has its five-line, unrhymed, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form. Originally used for romantic poetry, like the Haiku, (which it an offshoot of Tanka) it is now focused on meditations of the natural world.

Dragonfly

Sun's heat on the skin -
Dragonfly in darting flight -
Bright the pond's waters -
The evening will bring shadows.
Dragonfly and I will rest.

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[Roadrunner3]

I am playing catch up! Definitely been away too long. Excellent work in all of these, afish, and it must feel great to be so close to #50 now. That is definitely the Mt. Everest of the poetry world. I think of these last several that the sestina is my favorite and the miracle is that you created a wonderful poem that flowed right along despite all of the technical requirements that had to be met.
Great work!
RR3

 

[afishamongmany]

45 - Terza Rima
Invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the late thirteenth century to structure his three-part epic poem, The Divine Comedy, terza rima is composed of tercets woven into a rhyme scheme that requires the end-word of the second line in one tercet to supply the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet. Thus, the rhyme scheme, aba, bcb, cdc, ded.
In English, most often iambic pentameter is used. There are no limits to the number of lines a poem may have but one form of terza rima is the terza rima sonnet which has 14 lines and ends with a couplet.

Weigh The Days

Each breath is given, every day a gift.
We use them up so swiftly, without thought.
Thinking to sail our tiny boats, we drift.

In swelling seas we seek a shelt'ring port,
To find firm ground and walk 'neath perfumed trees,
Where there is peace and rest from battles fought.

But no, not yet the time to take our ease.
Lay not aside your sword or shield until,
He who gives each breath bids your war to cease.

Each day speak truth, do good, fulfill God's will.
Heed not that voice that says, "Just please yourself".
Remember that spilt blood upon that hill.

Our journey's end may come with quiet stealth.
Our days when weighed, what then will be our wealth?

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[Martyr's Crown]

45 - Terza Rima
Invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the late thirteenth century to structure his three-part epic poem, The Divine Comedy, terza rima is composed of tercets woven into a rhyme scheme that requires the end-word of the second line in one tercet to supply the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet. Thus, the rhyme scheme, aba, bcb, cdc, ded.
In English, most often iambic pentameter is used. There are no limits to the number of lines a poem may have but one form of terza rima is the terza rima sonnet which has 14 lines and ends with a couplet.

Carpe diem

Each breath is given, every day a gift.
We use them up so swiftly, without thought.
Thinking to sail our tiny boats, we drift.

In swelling seas we seek a shelt'ring port,
To find firm ground and walk 'neath perfumed trees,
Where there is peace and rest from battles fought.

But no, not yet the time to take our ease.
Lay not aside your sword or shield until,
He who gives each breath bids your war to cease.

Each day speak truth, do good, fulfill God's will.
Heed not that voice that says, just please yourself.
Remember that spilt blood upon that hill.

Our journey's end may come with quiet stealth.
Our days when weighed, what then will be our wealth?

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Beautiful!

 

[Roadrunner3]

And I agree, this is beautiful. It is gentle, I could see reading this by a lake on a warm day and feeling the lapping against my feet. But all of that silky sibilance belies a deep truth, the awful price, the blood that was spilt. I expect that life in the shire seems a lot simpler and sweeter after a close encounter with Mount Doom!
This is a fabulous poem.
RR3

 

[afishamongmany]

46 – Terzanella

This form, invented by Lewis Turco, is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima forms. It is a 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking tercets plus a concluding quatrain. The first and third lines of the first triplet reappear in the end quatrain. The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet.
Meter is Iambic Pentameter. The rhyme and refrain scheme for the triplets is as follows: ABA’ bCB cDC dED eFE fAFA‘ or ABA ‘bCB cDC dED eFE fFAA’

A Trumpet's Call

A trumpet's call, then will dear Christ appear.
In clouds of glory He will come from high
To raise us up, we who to Him are dear.

Forever with our Lord, no more to die.
To live and serve our Saviour King, God's Son.
In clouds of glory He will come from high.

Sometimes we feel the race too hard to run
But when the trumpet sounds we will be changed
To live and serve our Saviour King, God's Son.

So will that be for which we yearned and strained.
A twinkling eye and we'll become like Christ.
For when the trumpet sounds we will be changed.

All this can be because He paid the price.
Sufficient was the ransom in him found.
A twinkling eye and we'll become like Christ

The ransomed by earths bonds no more are bound.
A trumpet's call then dear Christ will appear.
Oh Lord, soon let that glorious trumpet sound
To raise us up, we who to You are dear.

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[afishamongmany]

47 - Tetractys
Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consists of 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.
“Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables.” - Ray Stebbing

Micah 6:8

Live!
Tell truth!
Act kindly!
Trust your Maker!
Know yourself to be a sinner pardoned.

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48 - Tyburn
A six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables.
The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.

No Fun Phase

Humdrum
No fun
Wakened
Strengthened
No steam, no go, humdrum, no fun phase?
Sing song! Bang gong! Wakened, strengthened, praise!

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[Martyr's Crown]

46 – Terzanella

This form, invented by Lewis Turco, is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima forms. It is a 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking tercets plus a concluding quatrain. The first and third lines of the first triplet reappear in the end quatrain. The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet.
Meter is Iambic Pentameter. The rhyme and refrain scheme for the triplets is as follows: ABA’ bCB cDC dED eFE fAFA‘ or ABA ‘bCB cDC dED eFE fFAA’

A Trumpet's Call

A trumpet's call, then will dear Christ appear.
In clouds of glory He will come from high
To raise us up, we who to Him are dear.

Forever with our Lord, no more to die.
To live and serve our Saviour King, God's Son.
In clouds of glory He will come from high.

Sometimes we feel the race too hard to run
But when the trumpet sounds we will be changed
To live and serve our Saviour King, God's Son.

So will that be for which we yearned and strained.
A twinkling eye and we'll become like Christ.
For when the trumpet sounds we will be changed.

All this can be because He paid the price.
Sufficient was the ransom in him found.
A twinkling eye and we'll become like Christ

The ransomed by earths bonds no more are bound.
A trumpet's call then dear Christ will appear.
Oh Lord, soon let that glorious trumpet sound
To raise us up, we who to You are dear.

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Wonderful! This one is my favourite so far! It encouraged me reading this!

 

[Roadrunner3]

afish,
Your Terzanella is full of hope, your Tetractys is a strong Biblical directive and the Tyburn is pure delight, complete with that banging gong!
Keep going and finish strong!
RR3

 

[afishamongmany]

A word of explanation – Why is poem form number 7 coming between numbers 48 and 49?
Because - on the original list I've been working to number 7 was The Epic and was skipped over as being way beyond my capabilities. At 36 I added the Roundelay form to make up the fifty total. But I need to use up the number 7 otherwise the last poem would be numbered 51. There you go, now you know. So back to the show!

7 – Tongue Twisting Twaddle
The nonsense poetry form in English has a long and varied tradition. Word play, word invention, strong but not subtle or fixed rhythm and rhyme. Absurd humour is the dominate tone but often mixed there in is not a little tragedy and catastrophy.

That Gal Gladys

Could it be we take ourselves too seriously?
Maybe our pumpossyposing needs a little pricking,
A little snacker snicking?
“That gal Gladys wuz really weird. Wherever did she go?”
Said Twiddly Thumb to Twiddly Toe.
“Yea! All that hanging out with hares and hatters. But she wasn't dumb.”
Said Twiddly Toe to Twiddly Thumb?
Her asking all those convoluted existential questions
Gave me a hypothetical series of quantum indigestions.

Just then a ferocious, frenzied, flock of jurassic fleas
Came leaping through the jumbled, tumbled, lumberley trees.
Devouring all before them with crinching crunch and mangling munch,
They were an anti-social bunch.
Close behind them came a herd of hairy homo sapiens,
Armed to the teeth with tablets and pens.
These Pyrrhic Philosologuys tried their best to analyze
The furious, fractious, fray.
With razored reason the fleas they fought, snicker snacker, snicker snack.
But the fleas just snickered back and it all came to naught point naught.

Suddenly midst the screams and roars a sweet little voice,
To much applause, said, “'Tis time for tea. Let's have a pause.”
'Twas that gal Gladys dropin' by in her turquoise Tardis.
A mean machine, how it did gleam and steam, in the setting sun.
Gladys supped some tea, had a bite of a flea-bitten bun,
Waved to the crowd, said, “Gotta go, luv y'all, have fun!”
Then with a with a cheshire cat grin, she got back in and closed the door.
The crowd groaned, “Oh no! What a bore!”
“Ok let's get back to doing what we were doing before?

Said Twiddly Toe to Twiddly Thumb
Just before he did succumb to an enraged homo sapium
“Think that gal got it right. Yea, she was bright.
'Twas her belief,
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
On dreary days it brings some lite relief.
But, oh take great care, too much will rot your teeth!”

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[Martyr's Crown]

I like this one. I wasn't too sure of at first if I would, but it has a sweet story with nice rhythm and rhyme. Was nice and fun to read out loud.

 

[afishamongmany]

Hi Princess - Happy Sunday to you. Glad my nonsense gave you some fun. Just remember, too much rots our teeth . ><>

 

[afishamongmany]

49 -Triolet
A poetic form consisting of only 8 lines, French in origin, and likely dating to the thirteenth century, emphasizing repetition and rhyme. The earliest triolets were devotionals written by Patrick Carey, a seventeenth-century Benedictine monk.
Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines. Usually either iambic tetrameter or pentameter are used.

Take Rest

I will take rest in Christ my Lord.
I will rejoice in Him always.
The son of man, The Son of God.
I will take rest in Christ my Lord.
His is the shepherds crook and rod.
His is the love that does amaze.
I will take rest. In Christ my Lord
I will rejoice, in Him always.

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