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Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Tuesday Poetry Stretch - Zeno!

Okay, in my excitement over the launch of National Poetry Month and my poetry project, I forgot to post our stretch! *SIGH* Multi-tasking is not my forte these days.

Since my first post of the month was about Z and the zeno, and since Kate Coombs has already gotten us started, let's write a zeno! A zeno is a 10-line verse form with a repeating syllable count of 8,4,2,1,4,2,1,4,2,1. The rhyme scheme is abcdefdghd. You can read some examples Pat Lewis wrote at Poetry A-Z: Z is for Zany, Zoological, and Zeno.  

I haven't been writing round-up posts of these poems in some time, so be sure to come back (or subscribe to the comments) and see the wonderful pieces folks are sharing.

4 comments:

  1. I'll re-post this here. Thanks, Tricia!

    March Wind

    March wind bumbles into April,
    bringing dark rain,
    circles,
    trapped,
    gnaws on thunder,
    snuffles,
    wraps
    his paws around
    Spring, and
    naps.

    —Kate Coombs, 2013
    all rights reserved

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  2. You're doing better than me--I'm not even going to try to keep up with my other regular features (15 Words or Less poems, etc.) during April!

    Kate--fun poem--I especially love wind as a bumbling thing!

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  3. Thanks, Laura! I love seeing what everyone's doing for NPM.

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  4. Fun form, the Zeno! Fun stretch. Thanks for posting it.

    LAMENT ON THE TOMATO

    Vegetable disguised as fruit,
    growing red in
    summer's
    heat,
    ripening and
    looking
    sweet:
    It turns out you
    are a
    cheat.

    © 2013 Stephanie Parsley

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