Category Archives: formal poetry

Metrical Mood

Posted on June 17, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Victoria Slotto is talking about meter for dVerse Meeting the bar today. Meter to me is not so much a discipline of choosing the number of beats or type of foot, but of bringing musicality to a poem.  I am, … Continue reading →

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Ode to the ordinary

Posted on June 16, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  For the comfort of familiarity the relaxation of wild hilarity the consolation of whimsicality we give thanks. For the drab routine of boring mundanity the culture shock of harsh reality the discomfort we feel at crass inanity we close … Continue reading →

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A Hero – Collins Sestet

Posted on June 15, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  Champion of the right of men to dignity and freedom, when his evil enemies prevailed, imprisoned him, his work reviled. Captive for so many years his people mourned with bitter tears. Around the world opinion sweetened, wicked autocrats were … Continue reading →

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Nonce-sense poems

Posted on May 27, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Miz Quickly, aka Barbara Young, sets some quirky prompts which tickle the imagination, and here are poems sparked by two of them.  Firstly, to write with Chutzpah, a favourite word of mine; and the second is an invention test, to write … Continue reading →

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Tritina – Shrinkage

Posted on April 29, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

As my years increase choices shrink slip out of reach Not quite within reach frustration increases as I shrink As my freedom shrinks the desire to reach the top shelf increases Envoi: Increase the shrinkage of the world to reach … Continue reading →

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Secret Admirers

Posted on April 27, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  dVerse   Poetics wants us to pick a poet from the many customers of the poets’ pub and write a response, maybe in their style or maybe not.  One’s poetic voice after a while becomes recognisable, but write in someone … Continue reading →

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Quadrille 6

Posted on April 19, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  The taste for the superfluous holds sway over those who are still unacquainted with the necessary. Twist and turn as we may, true contentment will remain out of reach for those who are ignorant of the difference between want … Continue reading →

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Sevenling

Posted on April 7, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

A dead awful sevenling Dead?  Who says I’m dead? I’m still here inside, ready for a hooley. What’s that you say? A wake?  I’m all for a party; can I come, pretty please? Why not? I ask. Let’s have some … Continue reading →

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Napowrimo 5

Posted on April 5, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

      Pindaric Ode O  candidate prime food for the Gods, ambrosial addiction smooth and sweet tempered, shaped or melted ─ flawless fantasy.   Yesterday’s prompt here was to write an ode to something that feels like an indulgence … Continue reading →

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Octains of Hope and Despair

Posted on March 25, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Victoria Slotto at dVerse reminds us of the Octain refrain form, invented by Luke Prater: a poem of eight lines – two tercets and a couplet with rhyme sceme Abb   a-c/c-a, b-A.  C is an internal rhyme in the … Continue reading →

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A Summer Tanka

Posted on March 10, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

as part of my self-imposed exercise in preparation for Napowrimo next month, I gazed out at the pouring rain and the gale lashing the trees around us, and bizarrely these words fell into my brain Humming flutter murmuration of flies … Continue reading →

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6-word-Saturday

Posted on March 5, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Have a happy weekend, blogging friends Are you fed up with politicians, posturing, spouting rubbish?    BREXIT & TRUMP (sounds like a firm of dodgy lawyers) dominate the news on TV (I change channels) and Facebook is filled with hate … Continue reading →

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The Power Cut

Posted on February 3, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

The Standard Habbie Stanza as used by Robert Burns, among others:   I am in the middle of a Future Learn course on the Scottish bard, and have been intrigued by the structure of eg The Vision.  The Habbie Stanza … Continue reading →

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Poetic Insurrection

Posted on January 31, 2016 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Curtains of rain sweep across the field, obscure the trees and spoil the view. If I were God, then I would wield a mighty mop  – sun overdue. *** Trochaic tetrameter  can be varied with  the odd iamb  from time … Continue reading →

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Fornyrδislag

Posted on December 3, 2015 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Better brave deeds than Valentine vows. Caring cannot be shown by words. Words would only weep with tears when what is wanted is worth much gold. Fair formula for wooing would be a faithful heart forgiving frailty yet seeking no … Continue reading →

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