Jeff’s Tour de Force
\nby cricketjeff on March 5, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThe lover’s way
\n(A Villanelle – fresh write in iambic pentameter)
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\nThe Moon has always lit a lover’s way
\nHer silver beams outshining Cupid’s darts
\nAnd only she can teach you what to say<\/p>\n
When night arrives the stars begin to play
\nAnd lovers need a light to show their arts
\nThe Moon has always lit a lover’s way<\/p>\n
A tongue may be too tightly tied by day
\nThe Moon lights words that serve to bind two hearts
\nAnd only she can teach you what to say<\/p>\n
Without her aid the passions often stay
\nToo tightly wrapped to tease intended parts
\nThe Moon has always lit a lover’s way<\/p>\n
If you are lost in love and disarray
\nHer gentle light will show you how it starts
\nAnd only she can teach you what to say<\/p>\n
I do not know a price you should not pay
\nTo keep love’s journey firmly on the charts
\nThe Moon has always lit a lover’s way
\nAnd only she can teach you what to say
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\nI sent my love a Valentine
\n(A pre-written Pantoum – in iambic tetrameter)
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\nI sent my love a Valentine
\nA kiss beneath her pretty nose
\nShe promised me that she’d be mine
\nAnd every day the loving grows<\/p>\n
A kiss beneath her pretty nose
\nAs she was smiling up at me
\nAnd every day the loving grows
\nAs everyone can plainly see<\/p>\n
As she was smiling up at me
\nI fell beneath this witch’s spell
\nAs everyone can plainly see
\nShe fell beneath my spell as well<\/p>\n
I fell beneath this witch’s spell
\nBewitched bemused and free at last
\nShe fell beneath my spell as well
\nShe washed away her tragic past<\/p>\n
Bewitched bemused and free at last
\nShe wanted me to take command
\nShe washed away her tragic past
\nSo I obeyed her one demand<\/p>\n
She wanted me to take command
\nShe promised me that she’d be mine
\nSo I obeyed her one demand
\nI sent my love a Valentine<\/p>\n
The stick in the mud
\n(A pre-written IP Petrachan, if you will forgive ending it in a couplet, AP’s
\nfinest Petrachan writer Eusebius does this and I love it)
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\nIn long and lazy meter I repose
\nContented in the comfort of the rhyme
\nPerhaps I’ll find modernity in time
\nBefore my aging bones can decompose
\nI have no greater wisdom to dispose
\nI cannot push my thoughts beyond sublime
\nSo I must strive to make my verses chime
\nWith all the dreams a lover may propose<\/p>\n
Although iambs can seem a rigid cage
\nConfining and conventional in tone
\nThey are a form with which I can engage
\nAnd maybe even make them seem my own
\nThe Petrach never rhymed his final pair
\nPerhaps I’m not incorrigibly square
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\nA Kenning Kyrielle sonnet
\n(A pre-written Kyrielle sonnet in IT, playing with Kenning an ancient devicein
\npoetry where you invent compounds for simple objects, I don’t consider a KS to
\nbe a true sonnet with only 8 syllable lines)
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\nBeneath the nightshine’s silent glow
\nI walk beside the waterstreet
\nI revel in the truths I know
\nYou make my happiness complete
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Above where silverflashes play
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The mousebirds dart for night borne meat
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 When you are in my dreams by day
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You make my happiness complete
\nAbove me starts the\u00a0 treehair’s song
\nThe cowfood rustles ‘neath my feet
\nMy heartwish makes me sing along
\nYou make my happiness complete
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Beneath the nightshine’s silent glow
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You make my happiness complete
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\n Author notes
\n4 forms selected from a list, I was going to include an Ottava too but I
\ncouldn’t find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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