Category: Poetry Forms

The Flavour of Belgian Beers (Found Poetry)

“Belgian brewers often supplement

the balance of malt sweetness

and hop bitterness with fruity,

spicy, floral and herbal aromas.”

 

Some Belgian beers are like running

through a hayfield at harvest

and others explode with

a whole orchard of fruit flavours.”

 

“Soft, mellow tartness

and mild horse blanket funk

will make you smile

and desire another glass”

 

Or a “delicate balance of grain

and caramel, burn and edge,

…..uniquely ancient taste.”

 

“I like to close my eyes and puzzle it out.

Where does the floral grapefruit end?

Where do the musty lemons begin?”

 

“An enchanting, not-quite-earthy

yeast character, a whiff of spicy hops

…. a tightrope balance

between crisp and malty.”

“The refined sourness countered

with some caramel sweetness.

… hints of raisins and red apples.

Sour meets sweet at a sublime level.”

 

Introtopoetry Day Seven – Found Poetry on the theme ‘of ‘Flavor’.

From http://www.belgiansmaak.com/belgian-beers/

and http://dageraadbrewing.com/story/what-is-belgian-style-beer/

Unsuccessful (Limerick)

Supposed to do a limerick

A young man was not good at it.

He’d such a big head

Wrote a sonnet instead

And thought ‘it won’t matter a bit’.

Introduction to Poetry Day Five

A limerick on the theme unsuccessful.

Friend (Acrostic)

Familiar face of a friend I know.

Remembrance of the times we shared.

Indelible memories.

Endless laughs.

Never to be forgotten moments

Devotion.

 

 

Into to poetry – Day Three

A Glass Of Water (Haiku)

A glass of water

Can end a sea of troubles

Down a bitter pill.

Written for Introtopoetry Day One Challenge.

Pantoum

Sometimes you have to plan ahead.

You plan what’s coming down the line.

You can’t just write what’s in your head.

You have to plan to make it rhyme.

 

You plan what’s coming down the line.

Choose words that rhyme as well as scan.

You have to plan to make it rhyme.

It will not work unless you can.

 

Choose words that rhyme as well as scan.

You must make sure you’ve thought it through.

It will not work unless you can

choose words that fit, have meaning too.

 

You must make sure you’ve thought it through.

So plan the end as you commence.

Choose words that fit, have meaning too;

You must make sure it all makes sense.

 

So plan the end as you commence.

You can’t just write what’s in your head

You must make sure it all makes sense.

Sometimes you have to plan ahead.

The pantoum is a form of poetry similar to a villanelle in that there are repeating lines throughout the poem. It is composed of a series of quatrains and the second and  fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third verse of the next. The pattern continues for any number of stanzas, except for the final stanza, which differs in the repeating pattern. The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final. Ideally, the meaning of lines shifts when they are repeated although the words remain exactly the same: this can be done by shifting punctuation, punning, or simply recontextualizing.

She loved him to bits – a triolet

She loved him to bits

He left her in pieces

She was out of her wits

She loved him to bits

But he was the pits

He had her in creases

She loved him to bits

He left her in pieces.

A triolet is a poem of eight lines with the rhyme scheme ABaAabAB The first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines, thereby making the initial and final couplets identical as well.