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Hats – Terza Rima

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Form
Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet. The two possible endings for the example above are d-e-d, e or d-e-d, e-e. There is no set rhythm for terza rima, but in English, iambic pentameter is generally preferred.
History
The first known use of terza rima is in Dante’s Divina Commedia. In creating the form, Dante may have been influenced by the lyric form used by the Provençal troubadours. The three-line pattern may have been intended to suggest the Holy Trinity. Inspired by Dante, other Italian poets, including Petrarch and Boccaccio, began using the form.
The first English poet to write in terza rima was Geoffrey Chaucer, who used it for his Complaint to His Lady. Although a difficult form to use in English because of the relative paucity of rhyme words available in a language which has, in comparison with Italian, a more complex phonology, terza rima has been used by Milton, Byron (in his Prophecy of Dante) and Shelley (in his Ode to the West Wind and The Triumph of Life). Thomas Hardy also used the form of meter in ‘Friends Beyond’ to interlink the characters and continue the flow of the poem. A number of 20th-century poets also employed the form. These include Archibald MacLeish, W. H. Auden, Andrew Cannon, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, Clark Ashton Smith, James Merrill, Robert Frost and Richard Wilbur. [Information source :Wikipedia]
Interview: Life of a Poet ~ California Ink In Motion
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Poets United Interview:
Life of a Poet ~ California Ink In Motion
“When creating poetry, it can look one way and then let a day pass and it will have a different look and feel because the words from the heart can be seen by the mind.” -TheMsLvh
This is part of the text of a very fun interview with Sherry Blue Sky over at Poets United as part of their series of interviews with different poets. Click Here for the entire interview. I hope you enjoy reading this interview as I had giving it. Sherry is a wonderful lady and host!
Kids, a while back a new blogger joined Poets United, blazed across our radar and made us sit up and take notice. We’re about to sit down with The Ms. LVH (as she wishes to be known) of California Ink in Motion. As she lives very close to the beach, I’m thinking either a glass of chilled white wine, or an after-dinner cup of tea, as we watch the sunset and chat about life along the California Coast.
After zig-zagging around the state from the deserts to the mountains to the sea, I moved to the Sierra’s and had a job to ski around to make sure everyone was having a good time, mostly a Public Relations job. During the summers, I would bartend and water ski. Life was fun. I used my little cabin as a launching pad to travel throughout the world. As the winters became more of a burden than a fantasy land (shoveling snow), I moved to the Coast of California in a small town, started a career and have lived here for two decades. I can hear the waves and smell the salt-laden air everyday.
Poets United: Your jobs sound like so much fun. Have you ever lived a great adventure? I suspect it may have been your move to the small coastal town?? C’mon, spill it.
*Continue reading with photos: An Interview with Poets United
Eyes – CINQUAIN POEM
Vision
Watching, seeing,
Smiling, blinking, crying
Eyes say what the mind is thinking
Windows
*American poet Adelaide Crapsey created the cinquain based on the Japanese haiku*
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-TheMsLvh © 2011
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Mr. T & Ms. Tilly

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I Found a Page on Facebook
Today, I found a page on Facebook
Westside (Los Angeles) Kids of the 70’s
Lost in time – taking a look
Reminiscing days – could write a book!
People from all over posting memories
some forgotten and many remain
Oh! the fun we had growing up
all linked by the same chain.
What have I been doing all these years?
slowly losing my childhood dreams
Being swallowed up with adult fears
bound by expected regimes.
Today, I found a page on Facebook
in an hour my world changed
By recalling the past – brightened the future
healing my heart with a simple suture.
Now, looking at life through eyes I lost.
Hurray! I’m Back! My past I crossed.
-TheMsLvh ©2011 5-14-11
Photo source unknown (Century City, Ca.)
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Grief Often gets in the Way
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-TheMsLvh ©2011 *edited suggestions by Michael York*
Inspired by “Thy son liveth: Messages from a Soldier to his Mother” by
Grace Duffie Boylad
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By a Thread
-TheMsLvh ©2011
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Take a Risk!
Do you take risks, inviting vulnerability
shaking up your life’s stability
secure in your own credibility
dreaming beyond your known reality?
Feeling safe in the predictability
leaning on your dependability
holding dear to your respectability
blocking all the possibility?
Securely bounded by the liability
comfortable with the permeability
and of course the tranquility
closed to the idea of plausibility?
Well…
One needs to be vulnerable to take a risk, a chance,
so you can expanse, enhance, and find romance,
and Dance!
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-TheMsLvh ©2011
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Inspiration by Stella D.
Silent Awe
Who is this man surrounded by beauty knee high?
I pondered, peering through camera’s eye.
Capturing the glory, a quiet serene
caught in a moment, a glistening scene.
Sun tickled the water with hues of gold
trees lined the shore, each with a soul.
Eagles nesting away from precious view
while fish query flies, at dusk, they flew.
Stunned, I felt a magnificent enrapture
a moment in time, fortunate to capture.
The solitary figure, surrounded by glory
with camera in hand, capturing his story.
I stayed ashore spying nature’s raw
whilst out there he stood in silent awe.
Shimmering water and auburn sky
sharing a gift, this man and I.
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-TheMsLvh ©2011
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