Dear Readers,
With school assignments and stress aside thanks to summer's presence, I will post a new blog post every week for the remainder of this summer.
During these past couple months, I have explored a variety of poetic forms and experimented in using them.
As much as I love the flexibility of writing in free verse, I am also starting to enjoy specific poetic forms because they allow you to convey the same message in a more structured manner. I find that this can ameliorate your poem in some cases. I always look forward to evaluating if a poetic form presents the poem and concept in a stronger and more thoughtful way in certain situations, compared to free verse.
When I appoint myself with the task of following a poetic form, ideas flow more easily than if I have too much freedom writing in free verse. Anyone facing writer's block should definitely use poetic forms: the perfect start to forming new ideas and putting words on paper.
Here are two interesting poetic forms that will surely spark many thoughts and form beautiful poems. 1. The Nonet
A poem with the form of a nonet has 9 lines and a 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 syllable count per line. Here is an example of a nonet that I wrote:
Dreams
I saw an octopus laying on
A coral, broken, like itself
It spends long, lonely hours
Dreaming of what could be,
And realizes
Those are only
Fantasies
That don’t
Wait
2. The Fibs or Fibonacci Poem
This form, created by Gregory K. Pincus, uses a mathematical pattern from the Fibonacci Sequence developed by mathematician Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, also known as Fibonacci or Leonardo of Pisa. One can notice this sequence frequently in many aspects of nature such as flowers and snail shells. The Fibonacci poetic form encompasses 6 lines and a 1-1-2-3-5-8 syllable count per line. Here is an example of a Fibonacci poem that I wrote:
Dreams
Wait —
Wait
For me.
Wait until
I find your space where
You hide, and run away from me.
I hope you will enjoy these poetic forms!
~ Golden Ink
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