Grace at D'Verse Poets is supporting our Poetry Form Ghazalwhich was hosted by Gay Cannon two weeks ago.
A Ghazal is a poem that is made up like an odd numberedchain of couplets, where each couplet is an independentpoem. It should be natural to put a comma at the end ofthe first line. The Ghazal has a refrain of one to threewords that repeat, and an inline rhyme that preceedes therefrain. Lines 1 and 2, then every second line, has thisrefrain and inline rhyme, and the last couplet should referto the authors pen-name…The rhyming scheme is AA bA cA dA eA etc.
Grace is hosting D'Verse Poetics tonight. She has prompted us to use compound words fav red by Dylan Tomas as follows: For this Tuesday Poetics I’m asking you to write a poem using at least FOUR of the hyphenated compound words from the above list. Employ as little or as much of Thomas’ other methodologies too as but most of all, let’s love the words! (Click D'Verse link to see all the hyphenated words) I chose: RINGED-SEA, OWL-LIGHT, SHE-BIRD and TIDE-LOOPED
Clandestine meetings Secrets and lies Forbidden love Slicing unbreakable ties Stealing love from another Ignorance your bliss Always hiding in cover
Blowing up lives Causing pain Years of happiness Now down the drain Excitement disguised As love evermore Nothing can compete Like a rabid carnivore
Passion turned to hate Anger and cruelty abound Someone’s marriage in tatters You, continuing to confound As quick as it began One day you’re gone Without a goodbye The end of a love song
How do i erase you from my mind? How do I delete you from my memory? How do I forget the love we shared? After the feelings I bared
You have rejected me and scorned me I am banished from your life I have become invisible and out of sight The sting is as bad as the bite
You look right through me as if I did not exist You are blind to my presence Obscured from your view I am now insignificant as I become your relinquishment
You were brave and strong Valiant and proud I loved you deeply To you I was avowed You fought for my heart and lost your life You gave everything To take me as your wife
My life without purpose Now you have departed I wander aimlessly Living broken hearted I leave this rose to honor your emotion The price you paid The ultimate devotion
They are saved in a box Hidden from view They come out now and again when I am feeling blue Your letters from long ago and photographs of old each has a memory and a story to be told
Promise of something Hopes for everything Goals to accomplish Maybe a wedding ring But our love was too weak and you began to stray Influenced by an enmity I knew you wouldn’t stay
Jealousy and loathing Slowly everything was destroyed Disharmony and resentment The end we could no longer avoid The letters and photos Just mementos of a time gone by Forgotten and ignored They no longer gratify
