Comprised of two lines of poetic text flowing along a 114-foot-long map of the Columbia River, this powerful image-poem by acclaimed poets Fred Wah and Rita Wong presents language yearning to understand the consequences of our hydroelectric manipulation of one of North America’s largest river ...
“Not Really Jelly” is a pure kids’ poem, the kind that makes them giggle. Of the three, it’s the most fun to read out loud, nearly a tongue-twister. I think the noodle image is a good one, but the verbs-turned-nouns in the last two lines make the metaphor stronger. You cou...
Since the lines run over the stanzas, I will present the whole poem before discussing it: Inventing a Horse by Meghan O'Rourke Inventing a horse is not easy. One must not only think of the horse. One must dig fence posts around him. One must include a place where horses like to live...
Lost Stanzas I didn’t see you today, And yet, I know you were like the moon. Even if you had nothing to say, I know we’ll be together soon. Continue reading... 136° Lillian 5 lines to speak my mind Tried to my limits
to destinations a train trip away. He weaves color; vivid details of nature, especially birds and the moon; and sharp depictions of characters in pieces that flow beautifully in crisp lines of poetry and prose. Deftly, reutter captures moments with loved ones, creatures’ moods, whether prey ...
Form, Meter, and Tone 'Introduction to Poetry' is a free-verse poem of 16 lines made up of seven stanzas. There is no set rhyme scheme. The meter (metre in British English) is irregular, but one or two lines bring the familiar iambic rhythm into play, for example: ...
" says author Shahram Shiva, founder ofRumi Networkand author of"Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi.""Those few lines talk about the promise of self-realization, enlightenment and ultimately ascension, where you evolve beyond the boundaries of a mere human to much ...
The poem is a love story as Gothic horror tale. A woman’s fear of growing old alone is greater than her fear of a man she knows deep down she should refuse. The result is a loveless union, isolation, confusion, and despair. The poem ends with these two stanzas: ...
That’s all as may be, but for our purposes what matters is that it follows from this account ofInteger vitaethat if you lop off the last four stanzas you have an apparently serious poem, and the remarkable truth is that historically 1.22 has probably been encountered far more often in th...
We can break our poems into stanzas or not. The stanza breaks can come regularly, like every two lines for couplets or three lines for tercets, or more. Or the breaks can be irregular, and we can space them in the way we do with paragraphs when we’re changing direction a little. ...