[Haiku]
Haikus are short poems, typically in the pattern of three lines with five, seven and five syllables.
My blog statistics
Do not tell the whole story
Of how you love me
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I don’t understand
I was the youngest of us
Now I have white hair
[Clerihew]
Clerihews are short comic verses, typically in two rhyming couplets, referring to a famous person. The first I obviously wrote back in the earlier part of the century when we had a talented and competent President.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Does not fear drama
When Republican wring their hands
He simple agrees to all their demands
Donald Trump
Donald Trump faced disapproval
The nation wanted his removal
So after his rejection
He led a sloppy insurrection
[Quatrain]
A quatrain is a four-line poem.
Change
Everything new is old again
Everything true has been told again
We may vote for change but then vote to rescind
We start with Obama but Trump is downwind
[Acrostic]
The first letter of the lines of an acrostic poem spell out a word, a phrase or some other message.
Right-wing
Extremists
Perpetuate
Umbrage toward
Black
Latino and
Indigenous
Communities
And
Notify
Denizens:
Embrace
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Corruption
Reject
Anyone
Caring for
You!
[Limerick]
In a limerick, the first two lines end with a rhyme that also rhymes with the fifth line. The third and fourth lines end with a different rhyme.
A Dog’s Lament
There once was a man with a dog
Who spent all his spare time on his blog
The dog wanting attention
said, “I just thought I’d mention
I’d rather be owned by a log.”
Queries to Literaries
Submitting all day from my hovel,
Agents rejecting my novel
I put pride aside
Die a little inside
Send more queries, more excepts and grovel