Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

DASHED AND SMASHED

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 20, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2565" align="aligncenter" width="427"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Dashed And Smashed][/caption]Like a gay butterfly On a leisurely summer morning sail Which chanced against a fast car's windscreen; Yes, like egg laden tray, Falling...

POETRY

THE HAIKU CHALLENGE by Fr. Albert Jungers

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 19, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2553" align="aligncenter" width="399"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Haiku Challenge][/caption]The Haiku is another simple form that teaches techniques highly valuable in poetry. It has precise rules that are regularly made and broken,...

POETRY

HEADING FOR A CRASH

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 19, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2536" align="aligncenter" width="399"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Heading For A Crash][/caption]Is this peril perceived? Our ship is steering sterile, And our nation staggers into doom. Yet, none cares if it perishes! This...

POETRY

QUARTERED

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 19, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2538" align="aligncenter" width="368"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Quartered][/caption]After birthing this fourth child Into your cold hands, O life! How much more tears would your jug take To allow for me a child...

POETRY

THE AGONY OF A MAID

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 19, 2012July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2539" align="aligncenter" width="418"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Agony Of A Maid][/caption]It is not my making that I’m a maid. If my parents were alive, it would not be said That...

POETRY

MAKING GOOD POETRY: Tips for Poets by Fr. Albert Jungers

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 18, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2505" align="aligncenter" width="340"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Making Good Poetry][/caption] There are for things I look for in a good poem, immediacy, economy, intricacy, and history. The poem should put its reader...

POETRY

NO SWEATING ROCK (a triolet)

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 18, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2506" align="aligncenter" width="399"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [No Sweating Rock][/caption]I'll walk on the path of shame Let men sit back to mock! Give me honour, what is fame? I'll walk on the...

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FUTILITY

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 18, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2503" align="aligncenter" width="399"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Futility][/caption] They wait; living in muted hope, Walking on the trail of this fading world… Ahead Time ticks, fast! Driven senseless by its tide, Having...

POETRY

KIRIGINA

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 18, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2504" align="aligncenter" width="452"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Kirigina][/caption] Ekpein, my son, I once faltered on a palm High up there I almost passed I was dried like pond fish On the altar,...

POETRY

THE TRIOLET CHALLENGE by Fr. Albert Jungers

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 17, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2491" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Triolet][/caption]A Triolet is a short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of AB, aA, abAB. The first is line repeated as the fourth...

Category: POETRY

DASHED AND SMASHED

THE HAIKU CHALLENGE by Fr. Albert Jungers

HEADING FOR A CRASH

QUARTERED

THE AGONY OF A MAID

MAKING GOOD POETRY: Tips for Poets by Fr. Albert Jungers

NO SWEATING ROCK (a triolet)

FUTILITY

KIRIGINA

THE TRIOLET CHALLENGE by Fr. Albert Jungers

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