poem-of-the-week-challenge

[poem-of-the-week-challenge]

Masterlist of poetry forms

... explored in this challenge.

To join, enter this discord server, and select the role "Living Poets Society".

1. Awdl Gywydd

Word puzzle forms:

2. Free Verse with a twist: a) two versions of the same poem, with different line break / capitalisation choices / punctuation b) use the exact same words, in two distinctly different poems 3. Mirror (or palindromic) Poem

Introduction into meter:

4. Minute poem 5. Cywydd Deuair Hirion 6. 7/5 trochee 7. Anapestic tetrameter 8. Double dactyl

Introduction into rhyme:

9. Echo Verse 10. Schüttelreim 11. Interlocking Rubaiyat 12. Than Bauk 13. Ae Freislighe

Soundscapes in poetry:

14a: Treochair 14b: Abstract poetry

Imagery:

15: The Blitz

Shape/form in poetry:

16: Concrete poetry

Creating your own poetry froms: MAYke your Own Rules May! (May 2023)

Let me know about any faulty links!

Feel free to submit all poems created in the context of this challenge in this AO3 collection!

Credits:

The concept was inspired by the HP Fanfic Writer's Guild's January Poetry Jam.

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[poem-of-the-week-challenge]

MAYke Your Own Rules May!

Come join our weekly poetry form challenge on this discord server! The event running right now is MAYke Your Own Rules May!

AKA: For the month of May, you create and submit the poetry forms (the "rules") you want us to create to, in ⁠the "#mayke-your-own-rules-forms" channel of the discord server! Pick and choose from the "toolbox" we have explored in the past 16 forms (masterlist here, for all of you who want to play catch-up), and anything else you can think of.

(This kind of poetry is also known as nonce poetry... but since "nonce" can also have… unpleasant associations (and I didn't want to wait til November), I chose to MAYke it May lol 😄 )

I'm curious what forms you come up with, how you're going to name them, and what you create for them!

And, as always, feel free to leave questions in ⁠the "#poetry-discussions" channel of the server or as asks on this blog!

Have fun!

Your mod,

Serena (@serenaew)

Thank you @hp-poetry-fest for the promo! Please please give this fest some love!

Below you'll find a (by no means exhaustive) list of rules/rules categories:

Let yourself be inspired by the past rule types explored in this challenge:

Poem length

Number of syllables or stressed syllables per line

Number of lines per stanza

Number of stanzas

combining multiple poems

Word Puzzles

Punctuation

Word order

Repetition

Spelling

"Symmetry"

Meter

Stressed vs. unstressed syllables

Iamb/trochee/anapaest/dactylus/spondee/...

Rhyme

Consonants in rhymes?

Internal rhymes

Multi-syllable rhymes

Sound

Imagery

Shape

but also aspects not explicitly discussed such as:

POV (re: Q&A poem forms?)

Tone

Emotions (re: elegy vs. ode)

Hidden messages

...

Feel free to play, and please also tell me if I've forgotten anything important because I'm sure I have!