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Alankar(Decor) -84

Salt-(Cinquo)
The Cinquo is a half Crapsey Cinquain.
The Cinquo is:
a poem in 5 lines.
syllabic,1-2-3-4-1 syllables per line.
unrhymed.

Salt
To taste
Eat or spit
Life's bittersweet
Ought

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -86

Growth(Cinquino)

Cinquino is
a form that reverses the syllable count of the Crapsey Cinquain.
a poem in 5 lines.
syllabic,2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.
unrhymed

Growth

Happy
L ittle blooms playing on the street
Happy thoughts turn sombre
Boozy big blooms
Sporting

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -80

Crapsey Cinquain-
a stand-alone poem, a complete poem in 5 lines. It can be written in a chain, but each cinquain should be able to stand alone.
syllabic lines in a pattern of 2-4-6-8-2 syllable per line

1 Stars

They do
Whole night their job
Perhaps looking from up
Down on earth's nightly danseuses
Winkling

2 Star

He does
Whole life his deeds
Sincere, honest, loyal
Rewarded finally on top
Wondered

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -83

Late Night Lunacy(Mirror Cinquain)

The Mirror Cinquain is:
(10 line poem)
syllabic,2-4-6-8-2-2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.
unrhymed

Late night
The door is knocked
She opens to find him
His grin stinks sleepish to harass
Routine
Her life
Shared and unshared amid heart burns
He writes on black in white
'I love my wife'
Does she?

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -74

Abortion-(Virgilio-
It is a seven line unrhymed poem
there are 6 syllables each in the 1st,3rd, and 5th lines,
5 syllables each in the 2nd,4th and 6th lines, and 8 syllables
in the 7th and final line.)

Abortion

When it came to its mom
Born first was the bond
A blessed moment both felt
But whose curse was it
Soon to break open it-
Sleet of blood and flesh
In mute wailing'mamma, mamma'

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -105

Heart Yearns(Rictameter)

The Rictameter is:

a 9 line poem.
syllabic verse with graduated then diminishing number of syllables 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2.
rhymed or unrhymed, if rhymed the scheme is at the discretion of the poet.
The two syllable last line is a repeat of the first line..

Heart Yearns

For what else all

The whole world and its all

Truth is sleeping on its chamber

What can nudge and wake it up from its couch

Sins invade evil dressed to beat

Distressed Truth wakes lighted

Just the right deed

Heart yearns

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -73

Waiting (Whitney poem)

The Whitney is a simple invented verse form introduced by Betty Ann Whitney.

The Whitney is:
a heptastich.
syllabic,3-4-3-4-3-4-7 syllables per line.
unrhymed.

Yearning

Far apart
Two hearts waiting
To join them
Glued soul in soul
Breeze should blow
Dark mopped off then
Pond helps moon and lily merge

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -76

Bhaji-(Chain Verse)

Chain Verse is composed in one of three ways:

1 Chain Verse is composed
with the last word or syllable of one line repeated
in the beginning of the next line.

2 Chain Verse can be stanzaic, most often written in any number of quatrains
but any stanza form will do, linked by repeating the last word of a stanza
as the first word of the next stanza.
The repetition of a word from one Verse or stanza to the next creates a chain-like link.
usually rhymed, linking rhyme as well as alternate rhyme.
often syllabic, alternating longer-shorter lines.
One example is alternating 8-7-8-7 syllables the other is alternating 6-5-6-5 syllables per line.

3 Chain Verse can be written
with the last line of the stanza repeated
as the first line of the next stanza.
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Bhaji-(Chain Verse-6-5-6-5 syllables
With linking rhyme only)

I found a guava plant
Silent in a nook
Along my garden stroll
On a rainy day

Day was cool in showers
No wonder taste hyped
Picked some fresh guava leaves
Wishing for bhajis

Bhajis are many types
Of veggies and leaves
Can make tasty bhajis
Guava leaves too used

Used are gram and rice flours
With salt and chilli
Mixed in are leafy bits
And soda a dash

Dashing batter ready
When mixed with water
The center line Strung out
Dipped leaves get coated

Coated leaves then deep fried
Out from deep hot oil
Season's snack was ready
Why wait, munch said I

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Ode to Salt

This salt
in the salt cellar
I once saw in the salt mines.
I know
you won't
believe me
but
it sings
salt sings, the skin
of the salt mines
sings
with a mouth smothered
by the earth.
I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.
Near Antofagasta
the nitrous
pampa
resounds:
a
broken
v oice,
a mournful
song.

In its caves
the salt moans, mountain
of buried light,
translucent cathedral,
crystal of the sea, oblivion
of the waves.
And then on every table
in the world,
salt,
we see your piquant
powder
sprinkling
vital light
upon
our food.
Preserver
of the ancient
holds of ships,
discoverer
on
the high seas,
earliest
sailor
of the unknown, shifting
byways of the foam.
Dust of the sea, in you
the tongue receives a kiss
from ocean night:
taste imparts to every seasoned
dish your ocean essence;
the smallest,
miniature
wave from the saltcellar
reveals to us
more than domestic whiteness;
in it, we taste finitude.

poem by Pablo Neruda
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Pacific Trash Vortex (Triple Tetractys)

The rules for writing a tetractys are as follows:
Line 1 is one syllable syllable
Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying
consonant sounds (e.g., a, I, out, too, cap, snap, check) . A syllabic consonant,
like the final n sound in button and widen, also constitutes a syllable.
line 2 is two syllables; line 3 is three syllables; line 4 is four syllables;
and line 5, is ten syllables.
The fourth and fifth lines may rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the
literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East
Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
But this is not mandatory.

Waste
Sea green
Wavering
In slimy traps
In woozy circles
Gushing at the deep water horizon

Melody still rooting in bluesy rock
Gloppy red icing
Crooked letters
Violet
Colored
Dream

Fish
Yellow
Flimsy boats
Lanky white man
Muzzy from the work
Cloudy indigo sky hanging round all.

poem by Marieta Maglas
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Alankar(Decor) -106

Memorandum(Acrostic Dectina Refrain)

10 letter title written acrostic in 10 lines with

syllabic pattern 1to 1o each line vertically

10th line is a refrain of first four lines

with 10 syllables

Memorandum

Mind
Ever

My sweet heart

Off life will go

Recall now your past

Avail yourself of yours

Nighted or godly harvest

Do urge to rectify counting

Umpteen your sins and their evil crops

Mind ever my sweet heart, off life will go

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -63

Just In A Minute (Minute Poem)

The Minute Poem is:
a 12 line Poem made up of 3 quatrains.
syllabic, L1 8 syllables and L2-L3- L4-4 syllables each.
rhymed, rhyme scheme of aabb ccdd eeff.

A flash of memory in fills-
There the pupils
Of my old school
Quite bored and cool-

It was the day's last period
Pupils were tired
Just third class kids
With shut eye lids-

One naughty boy of higher class
Slipped out from class
Like a bad thief
Did the mischief

Rang the bell before closing time
Stirred school in rhyme
Dispersed early
Hurry-scurry

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Ode To Happiness

Ode to happiness
Joy cometh in the morning.
May only peace reign.

All our hope comes from above.
Wars shall truly cease,
When that which is perfect comes.

Rejoicing always
We shall overcome sin’s grasp,
When Heaven arrives!

The Earth will sing a new song.
Every knee shall then bend down!

A Choka Poem goes like this:
1st 3 lines = 5,7,5 syllables
2nd 3 lines = 7,5,7 syllables
Ending 2 lines = 7 syllables each

poem by Robert Edgar Burns
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Salt

the salt i cannot see
makes the food taste
so flavourable

God i cannot see
makes this life so much
worth living

salt is to tongue
as God is to the soul

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Bussokusekiku Japanese form

Bussokusekiku

6 lines
5 syllable, line one
7 syllables line two
5 syllables line three
7 syllables in the last three lines

Orientally
inspired I write poetry.
Exercise my brain
Look at things differently

If I can do it so can you

White chrysanthemum.
Signifying purity
One single blossom.
Typically Japanese
in its simplicity
Needs no explanation.

Savage warrior
who composes poetry.
Shows his softer side.
He must be a samurai.
A well trained brave fighting man
Writes beautifully of love.

28/10/2009
http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers

poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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A Question

whatever detests upon yourself
cannot just be simply removed by you
and you say, this is not me
there is no denial about your dual nature
both evil and good
mixed in one glass like salt and water
if you remove one from the other
you shall not be the same again
not your taste, not you anymore
and you ask: what is real? the salt alone?

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Tast malt

Salt is
more in food
Asalt the food...

Salt is
Low in food
Tung out...!

Salt is salt
Tasty malt...?

poem by Otteri Selvakumar
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The Poem I Am Writing Now

The poem I am writing now
does not know if it will be finished
it does not even know if it will be a poem -
it is slowly appearing line by line
and making its own meaning on the page-

Is it worth anything?
will anyone care?
I don't know -

The poem I am writing now
is just these lines
and these lines like all lines
are only small words
in a vast universe
that has long lived
and will probably longer live
without them.

Why then write these words now?

The poem I am writing now is saying,
'I am here now'.

But why should this mean anything to anyone else?

The poem I have written here
is not the poem I would have posted here
It is only the poem I am finishing now
a poem without great love or belief in itself.

The poem I am writing now
is written.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Liar, liar...

when the sweet sap of
the sugar cane is gone
when the salt does not
taste salt at all
when the vinegar loses
its prized acidity
the raw mango its sourness
the pork its oil and
the rice its gluten

when essence is gone
when you say that it is this
essence that precedes
existence

then tell me what happens next?

i know what to do.I know.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Alankar(Decor) - 81

Love From Far Ends(Cinq Cinquain)
Cinq Cinquain is a verse form of 5 Crapsey Cinquains written as 5 sequential stanzas.
Love From Far Ends

Far ends
They stand apart
Stretched life further to go
Stretching then and then, on and on
Loveless

Of course
Rebukes command
Reprimands do demand
Yet they stretch their lives from far ends
Loveless

She mulls
'Am I to hurt
Am I to shame myself
Am I to shame my poor parents
No, no'

He Views
'How to solve this
Can't love, can't divorce her
Those holy vows firing around
Hmm, act'

Pretence-
Their choice to love
Two hearts from far ends love
And yield issues diplomatic
Loveless

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Alankar(Decor) -107

Lovely Fall (Acrostic Dectina Refrain)

10 letter title written acrostic in 10 lines with

syllabic pattern 1to 1o each line vertically

10th line is a refrain of first four lines

with 10 syllables

Lovely Fall

Light

On leaves

Vast jumbling

Enthralling heart

Lovely colours smile

Yarned of hued sunshine morn

Flashings fluorescent cuddle

As Almighty's hands extended

Lovingly to cajole the hurt hearts

Light on leaves vast jumbling enthralling heart

poem by Indira Renganathan
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