Monday, September 03, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - The Nonet

I've been spending time researching forms I haven't tried before. I'm actually pleased with how many new ones (new to me, at least) that I've found. This week I'd like to try the nonet. Here's a description of the form.
A nonet is a nine line poem. The first line containing nine syllables, the next line has eight syllables, the next line has seven syllables. That continues until the last line (the ninth line) which has one syllable. Nonets can be written about any subject. Rhyming is optional.
You can read more about this form and see a few examples at Poetry Dances - Nonet

Leave me a note about your poem and I'll share the results in time for Poetry Friday.

11 comments:

  1. Antiquity
    By Steven Withrow


    Past the Greco-Roman exhibit
    a mosaic of a lion—
    Phoenician, informs the card,
    a trader’s home decor,
    three thousand years old,
    glazed cubes of stone,
    tesserae—
    purple
    claws.

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  2. Mom

    Mom in her pink bathrobe, face faded
    to match her mother’s. She’s checking
    her e-mail. The other night
    she asked, “What’s a phoenix?”
    How long till she asks,
    “Who are you?” and
    “Who am I?”
    Till skies
    fall?

    --Kate Coombs, 2012
    all rights reserved

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  3. Awesome poems Steven and Kate. I'll have give a nonet a try.

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  4. Fascinating form, and Steven and Kate--really well done.
    Here's mine:

    Dawn Chorus: A Nonet

    If you listen to the dawn chorus,
    one ear open for your alarm,
    you will miss all the music,
    hear only the buzzing,
    the information,
    facts, and data,
    no music,
    no bird
    song.

    ©2012 Jane Yolen All rights reserved

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  5. No, No, Nonet

    Don’t know if I will ever tell you
    how I feel—it’s just not something
    i am likely to. because
    you are someone, somewhere,
    I knew once upon
    a time—a time
    and place no
    longer
    mine.

    (c) julie krantz, 2012

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  6. Hi Tricia ~ happy to be back, discovering this form. Love all the previous nonets, and especially liking Julie's apt title.

    WORDS CONCEAL

    Staring at page, bare as vacant mind
    its sheer breadth of utter starkness
    pushes me to pick at nails
    and patches of dry skin
    feel eyes glaze over
    as words conceal
    their faces
    hiding
    out.

    © 2012 Carol Weis All rights reserved

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  7. FAMILY HISTORY (FROM THE BOTTOM UP)

    Gramps huddled us grandkids together
    then said, "When we were 22
    your Grandmother and I built
    this home each of you are
    standing in, brick by
    brick, side by side,
    hand in hand,
    heart to
    heart."

    (c) Charles Waters 2012 all rights reserved.

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  9. Hi, Everyone--I've enjoyed all of these nonets--what a fun (and unusual) form!

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