Here are five of the most popular Poetry  posts for 2024. Thank you for your continuing support and interest in teaching poetry and all it entails. Here's a chance to reconnect with poetic ideas. Ideas you can easily carry forward into 2025. Just click the link... Trinet Poems Revisited In this post I turned my attention back to the Trinet, a seven-line poetry form based purely on  its word count. Trinets are terrific fun to write! Run Roger Run- A Docupoetry Delight When writing docupoetry, the poet may arrange lines or phrases from the source texts to create poems, convey their interpretation of the documents through original poetry, or write poems that fall on somewhere between these various objectives. This poem features Roger Bannister, an English athlete who forst broke the four minute mile. This form of poetry instantly appealing.  A Bit Of Short Stuff- Poems As Brief Encounters When writing short verse each word seems to carry an increased load. You do not ...

In this post I am turning my attention back to the Trinet, a seven-line poetry form based purely on  its word count. Trinets are terrific! Here are the guidelines for writing a Trinet Poem: 7 lines Lines three and four have 6 words in each line All the other lines have 2 words per line The Trinet has no restrictions for rhyme, subject matter, or syllables. The trinet is pretty straight forward as a poetry form. Here are two examples of Trinet poems- Cake On A Plate Shall we? Should we Have another slice of orange cake? It would be shameful to waste We would Enjoy it I'm sure. Alan j Wright Fly By Night The fly spins constantly in those buzzing, death throe, circles A break dance of mortal magnitude Summertime pest Never welcomed Not mourned. Alan j Wright It is Poetry Friday and our host this week is Irene Latham. Irene's post is all about community Poetry Project and includes the composing of a progressive poem. Check it out at Irene's blog.

This week I'm getting acquainted with the Trinet, created by an individual by the name of 'Zion.' I'm afraid that's I can tell you about the form's origin. Here are the  guidelines for writing a Trinet: 7 lines Lines three and four have six words in each line All the other lines have two words per line There are no restrictions for rhymes, subject matter, or syllables, making it easier to create.  I based my poem on a fact I had gleaned from my research into obscure and unusual facts. I had a list of them in my notebook and this one appealed. It felt good to build words around a fact.  Pigs Can't Look At The Sky Siobahn started Each day With a deliberate, lingering, heavenly gaze Grateful she was not a pig Forever denied Those glorious Skyward glances. Alan j Wright It is Poetry Friday yet again. Our host for this week is Linda B  at Teacher Dance. Linda's post reminds us that every end is a beginning with a poem about her grandson and being on the edge ...