The popular English Quintain has no set meter with a rhyme schemexbxbbxdxdd… etc.orababbcdcdd… etc. Example The Boatman by Sean Curtis Do not call the boatman earlyWe must all wait out our time,He will not come if it's untimelyHe'll leave you waiting out of lineAnd the future will not be fine If he comes and takes … Continue reading English Quintain Notes
Chained Sonnet Notes
More of an effect than a set sonnet form the chained sonnet can be used with any sonnet variant the poet chooses. Each line begins with the last word of the preceding line. For a cyclic chained sonnet the last word of the last line should be the first word of the first line. Structure: … Continue reading Chained Sonnet Notes
Hymn to the Gods
Forces of nature, hail to Thee, From here on bended knee. The Earth Mother graces us with life...
Two Sleeps
Wednesday, some call it Hump Day and bloggers go wordless sometimes but in my diary, it reads two sleeps...
Time Caught in Art Deco #Writephoto
The prompt from Sue, https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/3193846/posts/2846323574, I’d recognise that clock tower anywhere so know this is one of my fave places in this world. ..
Ballad to the Goddess
She sings to me in silver tones She calls the merry tune The maidens dance before the crones...
And Ravens Fly
Old buildings have secrets so some would say Whispering between the walls Old souls watching o’er the living tonight...
1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky was a Romantic composer and the first Russian composer to make a lasting international impression. In 1884 Tsar Alexander III honoured him with a lifetime pension...
Hallucinations
Anguished winds driving through my dreams Like hurricanes and thunderstorms In flashing, surrealistic screams...
Blade Runner by Vangelis
Vangelis is a musician and composer of progressive, electronic, ambient, jazz and orchestral music. He is best-known for his Academy award winning score to Chariots of Fire and also composing scores for Blade Runner, Antarctica, Conquest of Paradise and Alexander. From a career spanning over 50 years Vangelis is considered one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music...
Washing Line Sails
freshness pegged on line hoisted high sails billow to travel the seas...
Break Point
Megan Cornecki sat in her bedsit with an electric shaver in her hand the day after watching the annihilation of the crowd of innocent people in the market square. Desperate people but innocent....
The Wheel of the Year
In honour of changing spiritual seasons in life, witches and pagans celebrate eight annual sabbats. These sabbats mark the eight annual passages of both spiritual and earthly energy. The wheel of the year is comprised of the eight sabbats. Each celebration comes under either greater or lesser sabbats....
From Time Gone By
In old tales of Wales, we see Bards through the Mabinogi Myth and magic come to be...
The Answer is No by Kay Sage
Sage was a Surrealist artist and poet. She was a member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of surrealism. Sage is best known for her artistic works of an architectural nature...
A 19 by László Moholy-Nagy
Maholy-Nagy was a painter, photographer, and a professor at the Bauhaus school. He was influenced by constructivism and an advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. He collaborated works with other artists, including Lucia Maholy (his first wife), Marcek Breuer, Herbert Bayer, and Walter Gropius. However, his greatest accomplishment is the School of Design in Chicago, which is now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology...
I Suppose
A gentleman and his wife pose In sadness, a thought comes to me On a lap a baby should be...
Cars by Gary Numan
Gary Numan is a singer, musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He began his career in the music industry as the frontman for Tubeway Army. In 1979, Numan started his solo career with the album The Pleasure Principle...
Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was a journalist, poet, short-story writer, and novelist. Kipling ws born in India which inspired much of his work, including The Jungle Book and Kim...
A Moments Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist. He is credited with reshaping Bengali literature and Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913 he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...
Get the Party Started by P!nk
‘Get the Party Started’ is the first single released from the album ‘Missundaztood’ by P!nk. An international hit, it reached the top ten in many countries, peaking at number one in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Romania, Spain, and Wallonia. In 2003, the song ranked at 185 in Q Magazines 1001 Best songs, and in 2019, number one in About.com’s The Top 100 Best Party Songs of All Time...
Who’s Who by Benjamin Zephania
Born and raised in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, UK, Zephaniah is a writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He is dyslexic and attended an approved school but left at 13 years old unable to read or write. He was included in The Times list of Britain’s Top 50 post-war writers in 2008...
Tonight
Tonight, I want to close my eyes and sleep and in the morning, wake up with you I want to see your hair disheveled...
Journey to the Land of Neverwas
Poor Mr. Easter Bunny, so full of woe. No chocolate, oh gosh, it so is not funny! Head in hands he sits, what to do?
Takes Two to Tango
Dance with me, baby let me hold you close for a lifetime forever and a day...
Curtal Sonnet Notes
Originally created by Gerard Manly Hopkins using his devised meter Sprung Rhythm sonnet purists would argue the Curtal Sonnet is not a true sonnet, nevertheless I shall include it in my notes as a valid sonnet form. The Curtal is a shortened, or curtailed sonnet, specifically referring to a sonnet composed of a sestet and … Continue reading Curtal Sonnet Notes
Countess Grief Sonnet Notes
Created by Jose Rizal M. ReyesMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterStructure: 3 quatrains and a coupletRhyme Scheme: abba cddc eefg gf Example: Necrosis by Jez Farmer The shimmery haze like buckets of mistReflect the heat against the dying grassAnd old man time must surely breathe his lastThere is no way out; no mystery twistUnheard warnings left all … Continue reading Countess Grief Sonnet Notes
Clare’s Sonnet Notes
Structure: Quatorzain of coupletsMeter: AnySchema: aabbccddeeffgg Example: Line by Line by Jez Farmer The soft touch of her lover’s lipsOn her skin his tongue slowly skipsHis hunger, her passion as oneDefining love’s erotic funWithout words, with a metered beatTheir verse inscribed in sexual feetA dance, a song, a poem foundShe drags her nails in the … Continue reading Clare’s Sonnet Notes
Wear and Tear #writephoto
Background: Once again Sue has given a wonderful word and image prompt at https://scvincent.com/2020/07/30/thursday-photo-prompt-worn-writephoto/ Thursday photo prompt: Worn #writephoto I’m am using both word and photo this week with the form Abbreviated Haiku II of 2/3/2 stanza. Yeahp, I like making work for myself...
Avalon Calls
I gazed in awe upon the azure skies And watched the worlds above align for me The spirits wove on Earth where darkness lies...
Addressing Depression
I want to say the words I need to say Addressing the sadness deep inside me Not that it listens to me anyway...
Cause and Effect
The Tunstine Gazette, a local evening paper, carried the headlines Another Crash on the New Bypass. The report cited brake failure caused the blue Mercedes to spin out of control causing a 30-minute tail back of traffic. The driver, in hospital, but not considered to be critical...
First Song
Mary, Mary was quite contrary With a garden, all prim and proper. No slugs or snails invaded...
O Solitude by Henry Purcell
Purcell was a composer of a uniquely English form of Baroque music which incorporated Italian and French elements. He is one of the greatest English composers and the most famous before the 20th century’s Elgar, Williams, and Britten...
All My Love by Led Zeppelin
Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light To chase a feather in the wind Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight There moves a thread that has no end...
Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch
Five Finger Death Punch is a heavy metal band from Nevada formed in 2005. They are recipients of many awards including RadioContraband Rock Radio Award for Indie Artist of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. To date their discography consists of eight studio albums, one live album, a compilation album and 30 singles...
Haiku
Form: Haiku old stony glancesmake us some magic, sweetiestuff and nonsense here ©JGFarmer2020
April Come She Will by Simon and Garfunkel
April come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay Resting in my arms again...
Us and Them by Pink Floyd
From the 1973 album ‘The Dark Side of the Moon,’ ‘Us and Them’ was written by Wright and Waters and sung by Gilmour. At almost 8 minutes long the song is the longest on the album. Released as the second single from the album it reached number 72 on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles chart and number 85 in the Canadian chart...
Sweet Heart of Toxicity
‘Your heart is made of steel’ Yet I know I can feel Targeted words bring pain...
The Music Giggled
The cuffs hold her gently to hanging rings As melodies of love violins sing out. A lonesome flute joy to her senses brings...
Pride and Joy
Inside the walls, I want my place of peace Where stress departs and tensions simply cease When my long day’s done, and come to an end...
The Spirit of Seasons
How we experience the seasons changes. The same is said for spiritual change, we make choices of living in harmony with our world and ourselves or not
Thursday photo prompt: Fantasy #writephoto
Welcome to this week’s #writephoto prompt!
You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up, which was published earlier today.
Throughout the week, I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as time and space allows, usually in the order in which they are submitted.
All posts will be featured in the weekly round-up on Thursday 13th August, linking back to the original posts of contributors.
Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, as long as it is fairly family-friendly.
Submit your link by noon (GMT) Wednesday 12th August.
Link back to this post with a pingback (Hugh has an excellent tutorial here) and/or leave a link in the comments below, to be included in the round-up. If you link to…
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round of wild roses
I only said to Bex the other day I have never seen red dog roses – well thank you Paul, you captured them far better than me
Thursday photo prompt: Worn #writephoto
Welcome to this week’s #writephoto prompt!
You can find all last week’s entries in the weekly round-up, which was published earlier today.
Throughout the week, I will feature as many of the responses here on the Daily Echo as time and space allows, usually in the order in which they are submitted.
All posts will be featured in the weekly round-up on Thursday 6th August, linking back to the original posts of contributors.
Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, as long as it is fairly family-friendly.
Submit your link by noon (GMT) Wednesday 5th August.
Link back to this post with a pingback (Hugh has an excellent tutorial here) and/or leave a link in the comments below, to be included in the round-up. If you link to…
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A Universe by Alexander Calder
It is from Calder’s desire in the 1930’s to create abstract paintings that travel through space that works such as A Universe, in which two spherical shapes move at different rates during 40-minute cycle, came into being...
Essence
Black velvet taking my vision fascinating my senses with bouquets of roses and scents of spice...
Telephone Line by ELO
The Electric Light Orchestra, better known as ELO, formed in 1970 in Birmingham UK by the songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their sound is characterised by its fusion of Beatlesque pop, classical arrangements, and iconic futuristic sounds...
A Hand in the Bird by Roald Dahl
Dahl was a novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, poet, and wartime fighter pilot. He was born in wales to Norwegian parents and served in the Royal Airforce during WW2 as a fighter pilot and intelligence officer. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s...
