This is a Joseph's Star poem. It has no rhyme, and is written with 1,3,5,7,7,5,3,1 syllables, center aligned and no stanza limit. Each line should have a complete statement in each line.
Just Me
What?
What?
The time's come?
Sky blue pink sunset.
Tomorrow's come unannounced;
The heavy door cracks open
One would go through it;
It can't be.
Sky blue pink sunset.
Tomorrow's come unannounced;
The heavy door cracks open
One would go through it;
It can't be.
Alone?
By Donna JT Smith, ©2018
By Donna JT Smith, ©2018
I'm sorry. I don't know where this came from or why. I wasn't sad until it happened. Now I'm going to write a happy one so I don't have to have this ringing in my ears.
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Here's one I just wrote using a Jeffreys Sonnet - an isosyllabic (only 8 syllable per line), 2 sestets with a cross rhymed couplet (the cross rhyme is in the 2nd to 4th syllable in each of the two lines of the couplet). Also there is a cross rhyme in the first line of the 2nd sestet (between the 2nd to 4th syllable), tying the 1st sestet to the 2nd. So the rhyme scheme would be: aabccb, (b)ddeffe, (e)g (g)e. The letters in ( ) are the cross rhymes.
Just Me
Is it just me or is the moon
Shining a more singier tune?
Is the loons' laughter happier?
Are the spring peepers cheepier,
And melty snowmen sleepier?
Are fingers a bit snappier?
Is downy tappier on wood,
And is the squirrel looking good?
Is it just me who smells spring?
I know the rocks and old leaves do
As small green shoots grow up and through
The warming mud to bring us things
Like flower zings in bluet field,
And garden yield of butter wings.
by Donna JT Smith, ©2018
Those were both beautiful poems! It's amazing how words can change our mood so quickly. <a href="http://melaniecrousesblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/j-is-for-josh-barro.html>Melanie's Stories</a>
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DeleteI love jazzetry and always think Joy Harjo is the epitome of this genre.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed both your Just Me poems, and am certainly learning lots about forms. Thank you!
Both of the poems written on this page are fabulous and full of vivid imagery. I can’t write poetry, but I still appreciate reading it. I hopped over and read the jazzetry as well. I wish I had the talent. I enjoyed Joseph’s Star Poem. I like poems that have certain syllables per line like This one or haikus. They seem so difficult to write. Enjoyed the lesson and reading your work.
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