An archive of English sonnets, commentary, audio, and relevant web links.

An online poetry anthology featuring metered poetry and some free verse.

Poetry from Able Muse -- metrical poetry -- poems Real Audio from poets -- poetry writing, poetry critique, online workshop forums, art, photography, humorous poems, chat.

Haiku HOW-TO HAIKU Haiku Techniques - Jane Reichhold Another Definition of Haiku - Jane Reichhold Fragment and Phrase Theory -Jane Reichhold Haiku Rules That Have Come and Gone - Jane Reichhold Some Thoughts on Rethinking Haiku - Jane Reichhold Forms in English Haiku - Keiko Imaoka ARTICLES ON HAIKU WRITING A Reading of the Prizewinners - Lenard D. Moore Metaphor in Basho's Haiku - Jane ...

DO COME IN The Magazine of The World Haiku Club Vol. 2, Issue 1: March 2002 Challenging conventions and charting our future A celebration of diversity, individualism and local initiatives Championing innovation, experiments and new talent ... thus exploring permanent poetical values This site is best viewed with in 1024 x 768 (16 Bit) High Colour Resolution and in smaller text ...

Japan Poem is an electronic greeting service and professional customer relationship management (CRM) tool incorporating among its features the elegance of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Japanese court poetry, or 100 Poems by 100 Poets, as assembled in chronological order by the 13th century poet and critic Fujiwara no Sadaie (Teika). Japan Poem's beautiful photographs and Java Applet illusions lend ...

Written by Ryu Yotsuya in Tokyo, Japon. History from Basho Matsuo to Koi Nagata.

An online netletter/ezine for readers and writers of mystery fiction in the short form. Contains articles on the writer's craft, writing markets, scam alerts, history of the mystery, and announcements.

Renga HOW TO RENGA Jump Start to Renga - Jane Reichhold Renga form for writing a traditional kasen winter renga (fill in the blanks) Renga form for writing a kasen spring renga Renga form for a summer kasen renga Renga form for an autumn kasen renga *new* ARTICLES ABOUT WRITING RENGA Let's Get Real With Renga - Jane Reichhold Readers' Opinions Regarding Renga and Renku - Werner Reichhold ...

Links to epic poetry, criticism, resources ...

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Renga, renku, haikai, haikai no renga, linked poems ...

Tanka HISTORY OF TANKA Five Years of Tanka History in America - Jane Reichhold Tanka for the Memory - Jane Reichhold Tanka Article in FEELINGS - Jane Reichhold ON WRITING TANKA What is a Tanka - Richard MacDonald Come Pivot with Me - Jane Reichhold Tanka Vs. Haiku - Jane Reichhold REVIEWS OF BOOKS ON TANKA Book Review of The Ink Dark Moon trs. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani. Book Review ...

Huge collection of loony limericks both naughty and nice! Send me your own limericks, and they'll be added to this site.

Alien Limerick Generator You probably don't want to hear about the sordid history of such an item, but I'll tell you anyway ... Once upon a time, there was YakMUSH. And we were sitting around chatting one day, about Ellen and Jim's idea for a new MUSH, when Ellen produced this list of syllables she'd grabbed and proposed to use for the language of one of the races on the new site. That list ...

A page for exploring the ghazal in English ...

There was a young man who sent e-mails: The incomplete collected limericks of Richard C. Long ...

Lloyd Schwartz introduces and reads Sonnett by Elizabeth Bishop, and is joined by Gail Mazur, Robert Pinsky, and Mark Strand ...

PageBUILDERS, Inc. Customized Websites presents Limerick o' the Day Ah, the Limerick. The Rodney Dangerfield of poetry. A five line stanza in spondaic hexameter, alternating with amphibrachs and amphimacers. (huh ) First seen in 1846, in London, in Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense. Limericks proudly broke into what had been the one, unbroachable frontier in proper English society: smut. They are ...

A GIFT OF TANKA Jane Reichhold Copyright 1990 Jane Reichhold First printed in 1990 AHA Books POB 767 Gualala, CA 95445 USA - in Zion National Park, at the Emerald Pools, water dripping over colored sandstone forms rain and rainbows; but only on the sunniest days - rock pool with autumn wet leaves golden ages coloring divided by sevens in a canyon full of rain clouds parted from a blaze of sun ...

CINQUAIN SAMPLES OF CONTEMPORARY CINQUAINS by: Jeanne Cassler Thomas D. Greer Alan Reynolds ABOUT CINQUAINS Perhaps as early as in 1909, the shy and sensitive Adelaide Crapsy had read A Hundred Verses from Old Japan, William N. Porter's translations of the Hyakunin Isshu anthology and From the Eastern Sea by Yone Nogushis. In Adelaide's notebook she lists eleven tanka and eight haiku she had ...

An anthology of humuorous poems - limericks -on various subjects. Indian politics and elections, daily news headlines, computers rotarians and rotary clubs and general subjects. Mostly clean, may have some adult flavor ...

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Sestina Syllabus Craft of Poetry Home Sestina tends to have a scary ring to it, and I imagine many fall back with a look of fright at the mere sound of the word. We all have, it's all right. A little pactice and the sestina can be a very rewarding exercise for any poet looking for a challenge. The sestina is yet another fun, French form, and it is divided into 6 sestets (six line stanzas) and 1 ...

Villanelle Syllabus Craft of Poetry Home Villanelles are a nightmare; there is no other way to say it. The form is originally French and didn't appear in English until the later 1800's. It is 19 lines long, but only uses two rhymes, while also repeating two lines throughout the poem. The first five stanzas are triplets, and the last stanza is a quatrain such that the rhyme scheme is as follows: ...

Explore the Haiku of WordWright: short poems of three lines and seventeen syllables, by Colin Crombie, aka WordWright and ccw&i ...

W elcome to the Mystery C lerihew S ite Edmund Clerihew Bently Created Philip Trent. He Also defined the norm For his eponymous poetic form. What is a clerihew Father Brown Gained wide renown. Not for prayerbooks or hyminals, But for collaring criminals. The clerihew is a four-line poem with a rhyming scheme of AABB. The first line traditionally is, or ends in, a person's name; the meter is ...

Philosophical Clerihews Ronald de Sousa An Eleatic May not be an Attic But could be the back door To the ground floor. Epicurus wasn't curious: All his leisure was devoted to pleasure. Being a Stoic Wasn't so heroic If you thot About it a lot. When Lucretius Got facetious, He'd shout: The Atom Will get'em! When Aristotle Took to the bottle He could scarcely pursue An end in view. If Cato Had ...

Tell me when this page is updated Poetry This is the vault where I like to keep my kilobytes of stupidity, oops, I mean my poetry. Keep in mind that none of this should be taken seriously, as I'm sure that I suck as a true poet. That is to say, none should be taken seriously except for The Easter Bunny , as it is a subject near and dear to my heart. Oh yeah, and don't be offended by The Drunken ...

Oyster Boy Review is a quarterly magazine of fiction and poetry published on-line and in print.

Blank Verse Syllabus Craft of Poetry Home Blank Verse is any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter. It was developed in Italy and became widely used during the Renaissance because it resembled classical, unrhymed poetry. Marlowe's mighty line, which demonstrated blank verse's range and flexibility, made blank verse the standard for many English ...

RomeDome.Com's SCIFLERIHEWS WEBSITE WHAT ARE SciFLERIHEWs A Clerihew is a light verse poem that consists of two rhyming couplets, the subject of the poem concerning the person introduced in the first couplet. This form of poetry was named after an English writer named Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who originated this particular style of light verse. SciFlerihews are therefore clerihews with the ...

A Poem by Donald Justice By Robert Hass September 20, 1998 Many readers wrote to express their interest in and ask questions about the poetic form called the villanelle, after I printed a couple of examples last month. So the haunted and magic quality of that kind of formal repetition in poems must have struck a chord. One reader suggested that I print a pantoum. The pantoum has a curious ...

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A collection of Shih This page includes both English and Chinese versions. All Chinese texts are in GB code Old Poems By Heaven! E ! Far Far Away, the Herdboy Star I I C# # C Tao Yuan-ming Drinking Wine u Wang Wei One-Hearted E A Song at Wei-cheng C C At Parting EI Wang Bo Farewell to Vice-perfect Tu Setting Out for His Official Post in Shu EI EU O E O Chang Chi A ...

Poems by Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop By Robert Hass August 9, 1998 A reader from Maryland writes to ask where the villanelle came from. I looked it up: a very old Italian folk song form brought into medieval French poetry and then brought into English by poets at the end of the 19th century. It is based on an intricate rhyme scheme and a schematic repetition of key lines. The effect is ...

Handbook: Blank Verse ~ In Shakespeare's hands the basic verse line of iambic pentameter (that is, five units, or feet, in which an unstresssed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable: see verse and prose) is capable of producing great variety and subtlety of effect. Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse. In his early plays the blank verse tends to be more regular than it is in ...