[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