Poetic Form 97: Rannaigheact Mhor

 I Write

Write well they say, yet I fail.

A tall tail a price to pay.

Maybe I can’t find ways, hail

the sale of my dang dismay.

Carve my name in bright paper

a caper for the fast flight.

No daylight say skyscrapers

cuts razors right, I will write. 

Poetic Form #97: Rannaigheact Mhor

The rannaigheact mhor form is a complicated Welsh form:

• Quatrain with an abab rhyme scheme, including consonant end sounds

• 7 syllables per line

• 2 cross-rhymes in each couplet of each quatrain

• Final word of line 3 rhymes with interior of line 4

• 2+ words alliterate in each line

• Final word of line 4 alliterates with preceding stressed word

• Final sound of the poem echoes the first sound of the poem

 

Poetic Form 91: Paradelle

 

Maybe

Maybe I can find my way home to you.

Maybe I can find my way home to you.

See your eyes the first time, heart skip a beat.

See your eyes the first time, heart skip a beat.

My heart, maybe, can see your home. Find a

first beat. Eyes skip time. I to you, the way.

I keep losing my footing on this path.

I keep losing my footing on this path.

The journey has been hard walking alone.

The journey has been hard walking alone.

Alone, losing this journey, my path. I

keep the walking on. Footing has been hard.

Searching for a stopping point or marker.

Searching for a stopping point or marker.

A chance to turn around, to wait for you.

A chance to turn around, to wait for you.

For a marker, stopping around chance, you

turn to searching or to wait for a point.

A chance for my heart to keep time stopping

this journey around your eyes. You skip for

home, or searching, losing the way. Find the

marker. I can see a point to a hard 

beat. First, I wait! Alone, walking on my

path, footing has been turn to you, maybe.

Poetic Form #91: Paradelle

The paradelle form was created by Billy Collins as a parody to strict forms of 

poetry. Still a fun challenge. Here are the rules: 

• The paradelle is a 4-stanza poem with 6 lines in each stanza.

• In the first 3 stanzas, the 1st and 2nd lines are the same; the 

  3rd and 4th lines are also the same. The 5th and 6th lines are 

  composed using all of the words from the 1st and 3rd lines and 

  only the words from the 1st and 3rd lines.

• The final stanza is composed with all the words in the 5th and 

  6th lines of the first three stanzas.

Poetic Form 63: Clogyrnac

 Run

And this is why we fall down.

Everyone scrambling for a crown.

Mountains don’t have space

for kings or false grace.

Run your race.

Turn around.

Chart a path for a purpose more

valuable than gold decor.

Feel your lungs burning

with joy and yearning

of earning

your own lore.

Poetic Form #63: Clogyrnac

Clogyrnac is a Welsh poetic form that has a six-line syllabic stanza(s) with an 

AB rhyme scheme with specific syllable rules as follows.

Line 1: 8 syllables A rhyme

Line 2: 8 syllables A rhyme

Line 3: 5 syllables B rhyme

Line 4: 5 syllables B rhyme

Line 5: 3 syllables B rhyme

Line 6: 3 syllables A rhyme

There are some variances for this form, for example line 5 and 6 can be combined into on line

with the same rhyme scheme.

 

Poetic Form 30: Lune

City streets are fine ways

to find a

person to call friend.

Poetic Form #30: Lune

The lune form is also known as the American Haiku. A lune poem has 5 syllables

in the first line, 3 syllables in the second line and 5 syllables in the final line. 

A variation of this form uses the structure of 3 words in the first line, 5 words

in the second line and 3 words in the final line.