Posted by Brad Osborne on January 22, 2021 · 9 Comments
Hay(na)ku is a simple poetic form, and it is also one of the newest.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 15, 2021 · 14 Comments
The huitain is actually a derivative of the French ballade. In fact, it is a complete 8-line poem composed of one ballade stanza.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 8, 2021 · 7 Comments
Some of you may have already guessed simply by the name, but the Hir A Thoddaid is a Welsh form.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 2, 2021 · 11 Comments
You hang a sheepskin,
And I sport tattoos,
You dress to win,
I wear jeans of blue…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 25, 2020 · 11 Comments
For the cascade poem, a poet takes each line from the first stanza of a poem and makes those the final lines of each stanza afterward. Beyond that, there are no additional rules for rhyming, meter, etc.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 23, 2020 · 21 Comments
I am a black spectre,
A swift and silent wraith,
Shadowless and unseen…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 18, 2020 · 18 Comments
Fibonacci poetry was founded by Gregory K. Pincus as a 6-line poem that follows the Fibonacci sequence for syllable count per line.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 11, 2020 · 9 Comments
I love Welsh forms, because they tend to rhyme and this form includes the challenge of internal rhymes.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 5, 2020 · 19 Comments
The canvas we own,
Painted by artisan’s hand,
That cannot be bought or sold…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 4, 2020 · 11 Comments
The chant poem is about as old as poetry itself. In fact, it may be the first form poetry took.
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