love left tearing my soul as sharpened blades traced veins...
Crimson Vapours
Category: Autonomous Poetry
Sin Eater’s Supper
And what is this world we have made: Where everyone’s heaven is our sin, The only sin left here is guilt...
Yuletide
Yule, divine Pagan rite...
Gothic Poetry Notes
Gothic or Dark Poetry is an invitation to write the darker side of life and the imagination. It’s an alternative to the sweet and romantic love poetry of Keats or Wordsworth. So, if you feel a need to write about the feelings of someone being there when you are alone, the dark emotions of depression, … Continue reading Gothic Poetry Notes
As Easy as ABC
Arouse the senses, Breath meeting quivering lips, Craving mouth-watering moments...
Clouded #writephoto
Background: Every Thursday Sue Vincent hosts the #writephoto prompt. This week’s prompt ...
Starting with Z #writephoto
Zen in a moment Yielding in silent tides of destiny eXistence dissolving into night fall...
His Dancer
I feel your eyes caress as I dance Probing, stroking...
Cinquain Notes
The Cinquain is a popular five-line stanza, derived from a very casual French form by Adelaide Crapsey. The five lines have specific syllable count starting with a two-syllable line and each of the following three lines increasing by two syllables and the final line is two syllables. Many poets use iambic meter, but that is … Continue reading Cinquain Notes
Hush
I’M shutting it out TRYING to stop the noise TO forget what used to be...
Blank Verse Notes
Strictly speaking, Blank Verse is a poem written in lines of iambic pentameter, however many poets relax this to decasyllabic lines, and why not, indeed. Blank verse poems can be in one stanza or broken into various stanzas of the line length the poet wishes. There is no rhyme scheme. Example: Riverside by Terry Clitheroe … Continue reading Blank Verse Notes
Bacchus and Ariadne
A glass of ruby wine, a god in love His woman that they left alone to die Upon an island, abandoned by man
Spiralling Dreams
Images colliding, twisting, turning. Mentality
Aubade Poetry Notes
Aubade Poetry Notes An Aubade is a song or poem of any chosen form that celebrates the new day
Blank Verse
Blank Verse is constructed lines of iambic pentameter without a rhyme scheme. For longer poems, it can be divided into stanzas of varying length or stanzas of equal length.
Acrostic Poetry
Acrostic poetry is a short autonomous verse constructed by a placing capitalised word or phrase vertically down the page to form the initial letters of each line of poetry. Each line is used to relate to the word or praise the subject. Acrostic poetry can be used with various other poetic forms that fit with … Continue reading Acrostic Poetry
Rhopalic Verse
The Rhopalic verse is not as easy as it looks at first glance. The rules of the form are simple enough as for each line the first word is one syllable, the second is two, the third is three and so on. There are no other limits in line length or the number of stanzas. … Continue reading Rhopalic Verse
Etheree
The Etheree is a 10-lined poetry form with an ascending syllable count of 1 to 10 through lines 1 to 10. Therefore, line 1 has 1 syllable, line 2 has 2, and so on ending with line 10 and 10 syllables. Example: Elemental by Jez Farmer Fire Air, Earth Water sprites combined as one. Life's … Continue reading Etheree
