Today's poet

[freckle]

That sounded more Yorkshire than Geordie, you missed the why off aye
Hope your are well this evening marra

evening merry! i am ok just tired for some reason ! hope your cool...anyway it was nice to see dick on here last night, i understand he is a fan of robert frost, here is a nice little one from him...night all...

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

[stevefoster]

Cooling down
The heating just knocked off
Dreaming of sun
Good night freckle

[Old Whippet]

Today's iambic pentameter

We're pretty good at haiku, (keep them coming) but I thought I'd introduce another form, the iambic pentameter. Sounds grand, but it isn't as tricky as it seems. Each line goes like this: -

ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum.

or

and one and two and three and four and five.

a famous one...




When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book

(W B Yeats - When you are old)

It doesn't have to rhyme, and there can be as many or as few lines as you like.

Here's an effort of mine to get us going...

A postcard did arrive this very day
Exotic images of lands afar
A Painted Stork adorning every stamp
The tales of those you met upon your way
Makes warming reading on a wint'ry night

Ok HHH - I'm on to it. Life getting in the way of poetry for a little while, but brace yourself, the Whippet will return brimming with iambic pentametry

goodbye lim'rick and our old friend Haiku
you served us well for three thousand postings
looking ahead I see pentametry......


are there any rules on length?

[Derby Tup]

Good to see you taking on the iambic pentameter challenge Old Whippet! Think I might have a go; especially as rhyming isn't essential

[Hes]

I never did anything with stuff I wrote in China. Trip was work and tough so not that bothered although might be interesting for me to review pages from thread at that time

Make sure you save your Indian poetry as it is excellent

Cheers DT. I write loads of stuff and am now reworking it and hope to produce two books (just for myself not to publish). One illustrated with the best photos and one as an artist's book and incorporating the text with printmaking. However, I haven't managed very much in three days so don't hold your breath!

[XRunner]

aye...bazonka!

I've manage to put this word on its head

[Hes]

Today's iambic pentameter

We're pretty good at haiku, (keep them coming) but I thought I'd introduce another form, the iambic pentameter. Sounds grand, but it isn't as tricky as it seems. Each line goes like this: -

ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum.

or

and one and two and three and four and five.

a famous one...

When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book

(W B Yeats - When you are old)

It doesn't have to rhyme, and there can be as many or as few lines as you like.

Here's an effort of mine to get us going...

A postcard did arrive this very day
Exotic images of lands afar
A Painted Stork adorning every stamp
The tales of those you met upon your way
Makes warming reading on a wint'ry night

Not sure if I can manage iambic pentameters HHH but I like a challenge and will see if I can come up with something!
Thanks for that.

[Old Whippet]

Good to see you taking on the iambic pentameter challenge Old Whippet! Think I might have a go; especially as rhyming isn't essential

Cheers DT. Go for it! I maybe should look into it further... e.g. what about rythm? HHH's ,one two, one two, one two, one two, one two; example suggests rythm, but the Yeats example does not.....
ah well....it's a challenge.

[Hes]

Cooling down
The heating just knocked off
Dreaming of sun
Good night freckle

kicking off my boots
I knock my heating back on
and pour a nightcap

I'm a wuss Merry, am consoling myself that a month away will have kept my heating bills down a bit.

[XRunner]

Not sure if I can manage iambic pentameters HHH

Here is a good example:-

Paradise Lost
by
John Milton
Chapter 1 - Book 1

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar.