My Poetry Dictionary
I’d love to write a sonnet
While wearing an Easter bonnet
Or perhaps a villanelle
That would do as well
The problem I have with meter
Which is meant to make a poem neater
Is that I struggle to understand iambs
Those metrical feet, not of lambs
The tercet, quintain, and quatrain
Give structure to my creative brain
A terza rima might morph from tercets
But that’s not as crazy as it gets
If I am really courageous
I might try a sestina, it’s not contageous
But poetry is if you write it too much
And find that the hearts of others you touch
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Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to find a specialized dictionary, select at least 10 words from it, and write a poem using them. I pulled my copy of the poetry dictionary by John Drury off the shelf and wrote this ode to poetry. Selected words are italicized.
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I love this poem and I love the part about iambs. I also struggle to understand them. 🙂
Thanks! I was at a writing conference once and in a session on poetry I had them all figured out. Then I left the session and promptly forgot.
This is fun, though I’d have to look up most of those forms:)
this is such a quaint poem! i adore the bouncy rhymes and the fact that you used poetic terms as your dictionary selections; it’s quite appropriate, i must say.
Thanks. I’ve been writing some deeper stuff lately and was in need of something more lighthearted.
This is actually so good!! Loved it! 🙂
Thanks!
My pleasure!
Linda! This is crazy. I used the exact same source dictionary. 😉 And linked my poem right under yours. You’re the first blog I’ve visited today. Too funny. I love this. And amen to the sestina not being contagious. 😉
Awesome! I will check yours out. Was almost late to church writing and posting mine.