POG Poet Laureate - Top 7 - Due Monday

[Nicholasp27]

Ok, we'll tone it down a little this round. This time, we'll go with good old fashion Sonnets. Topic: Anything


Sonnet
A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme:

Examples of a rhyming scheme:

#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd

A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.

An Italian sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet, rhyming
cdecde or cdcdcd, or in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet.

Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line, but Italian Sonnets can also have
11 syllables per line.

French sonnets follow in this same pattern, but normally have 12 syllables per line.


Example #1:
Sonnet of Demeter--Italian Sonnet

Oh the pirate stars, they have no mercy!
Masquerading as hope they tell their lies;
Only the young can hear their lullabies.
But I am barren and I am thirsty
Since she has gone. No hope is there for me.
I will roam and curse this earth and these skies--
Death from life which Zeus sovereign denies.
My heart's ill shall the whole world's illness be

Till she is returned-- my daughter, my blood--
From the dark hand of Hades to my care.
With my tears these mortals shall know a flood
To show Poseidon's realm desert and bare.
No myrtle shall flower, no cypress bud
Till the gods release her...and my despair.

Copyright © 2000 Erica Fay


Example #2:
To--French Sonnet

Elle est muette. Waiting in wind towards nightfall,
dawn emerges early with purple hands, eager
for a song of mountains. Silhouetting meager
ground, sun throws her whispy shadow across and tall.
(She had never been imprisoned or subdued
beneath his lips, hands, or eyes, which roughly tasted,
perhaps, the small of her back ere passion wasted
her soul, or planets quit orbits standing still - queued.)
Elle est muette. Sighing under sun - coming twilight
beckons secret sentiments unspoken; verses
promised in breaths - never to be revealed; curses
against space and time for splitting the seams of night.

Fingers trace Venus in the sky - wishes are flung
and whispers are sent from tenderly silent tongue.

Copyright © 2000 Christine Ann Kelley


Example #3:
Sonnet--Italian Sonnet

I set my soul free down the dreamers lane
Thoughts of joyful times bring my mind aflight
Moons of memories drip so lovely light
Stars above hum a tune to ease my pain
I sail a sea where kings of past did reign
Thoughts buried deep burn in the stars so bright
To see the legends only I may sight
A life of imagery that pumps in vein

As life is written in a hidden page
I soar among all the things that will fly
I'm always seeking my soul's so lost core
Sooths all of my hate and my painful rage
Sorrow from all my blood dripped tears I cry
Dreams are the peace felt in life times before




Plan is to have it due Friday 4pm so people can vote from then until Saturday; and I'll post the next round on Friday as well, to be due Tuesday...

If you'd rather have until Monday, let me know and i'll extend this round until monday, but still post next round's assignment friday to be due wednesday then

[Nicholasp27]

Final 7: bojtun/kokiri/vr/stephen/mets/shorty/aaron

[VoraciousReader]

I vote Monday again, personally...I could do Friday, but weekends are so much better for me to write these.

[Nicholasp27]

ok, it's monday at noon; but next round's assignment will go up friday, due wednesday; u'll know by saturday evening whether u are moving on, so u'll have saturday to wednesday to work on that round

[kokiri]

I'm easy. My preferred system would be to announce the round in advance, so we have a few days to do it, but to try to run 2 per week so we finish before the laws of entropy track us down.

I am simultaneously more competitive about this than I imagined possible and kinda hoping i get eliminated so I can stop trying to fit every waking thought into backwards iambic pentameter.

[Nicholasp27]

yeah, with the time people need to do a good job, i think 2/week is what we should shoot for, not 3...and one is too little

so from now on we'll have one due every monday and one due every thursday

monday's will be posted tuesday and thursdays will be posted friday...so 5 days to think about it, but 2-3 days after u know 100% u are moving on to next round

[RAPT0R CHRIST]

i will mark you down heavily if you do not write in iambic pentameter

[durron597]

nich,

why are you doing all the hardest types of poetry first?

[Nicholasp27]

there are plenty of harder ones left...

and i didn't wanna make it all easy; this is a hardcore contest and people gotta bring their A game every round or they are out

wasn't gonna be all limericks and haikus

[metsandfinsfan]

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i will mark you down heavily if you do not write in iambic pentameter

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i dont even know what it is. so now i have to study all week before i write

jeeeeeeeeeeez