What is Poetry?

Poetry: is simply defined as the Collection of Poems.

Meaning of the following Words

• Poem: A piece of writing whereby the words are selected for their images and sounds. it doesn't suggest for their clear meanings. The words are arranged in separate lines, usually with a reapeated rhythm, and often the lines RHYME at the end.

• Poesy: [literary] Poetry.

• Poet: A person who writes poems.

• Poetess: [old fashion] a woman who writes poems.

• Poetics: The art of writing poetry or the study of poetry.

• Poet 'Laureate: Aperson who has been officially selected to write poetry for the country's special occasions.

Quotes of Poetry

Mechanics of Poetry

The mechanics of poetry is considered before writing poems, under the following:

• Broken rhyme
• Chain rhyme
• Lamb
• Lambic Pentameter
• Meter
• Pause
• Stress
• Versification

• Broken rhyme: result of splitting a word at the end of a line to manipulate a rhyme.

• Chain rhyme: rhyming scheme where the line of the first stanza is linked to a rhyme in the next stanza, ending stanza loops back to the first stanza or ends with the last rhyme repeated.

• Lamb:a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, a short syllable followed by a long syllable.

• Lambic Pentameter: consist of two syllables repeated five times in succession where unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable within a line of verse.
  

• Meter: a measure of rhyme; (the unit of meter is the foot) Metrical lines are named for the number of feet in a line. (1) monometer, (2) dimeter, (3) trimeter, (4) tetrameter, (5) pentameter, (6) hexameter, (7) heptameter (8) octameter

• Pause: this is an interval between syllables of verse.

• Stress: special emphasis on a word, syllable, or phrase with a line of verse.

• Versification: versification is the art of writing verses.

Figures of Speech

• Imagery--to evoke a mental image (sometimes emotional), i.e a figurative language

• Irony-- expression of words used to convey an opposite meaning from the usual sense.

• Metaphor--a term used to treat two things that are not the same as equals such as "A bird swimming in the river."

• Oxymoron--the combining of two words that looks to be contradictory i.e (opposites), but offer an important effect such as a good devil, an innocent liar.
  

• Personification--a form of metaphor where an inanimate object, animal, or idea is given human-like characteristics
  

• Prose--ordinary everyday language used in speech or writing with no style or rhymes.

• Pun--a play on words that sound similar for a humorous effect.

• Repetition--a repeating sound, line, syllable, etc. bring reinforcement to the meaning of a poem.
  

• Rhyme--a recurrence of similar ending sounds at the ends of a poetic line/verse.

• Simile--a comparison between two unlike things using like or as, etc. such as white as snow, as black as charcoal.
  

Verse Forms

* A verse can be one line of poetry or a stanza.

Alexandrian--a line of poetry 12 syllables (or 13 if the last syllable is unstressed) consisting
6 iambic feet.

Blank Verse--poetry written without rhymes usually in iambic pentameterin English verse

Chain Verse--like chain rhyme, but instead of linking rhymes, words, phrases or lines are repeated in succeeding stanzas.

envoy (envoi)--a short final stanza of a poem

Free Verse--a verse form free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme)

Open Form--created through shifts, leaps, hesitations, and fragmentations in lines. It conforms to no set form, structure,or rhythmic patterns.

Refrain (chorus)--a repeated verse within a poem or song pertaining to a central topic

Stanza Forms--names describing the number of lines is an stanzaic unit, (2) couplet, (3) tercet, (4) quatrain, (5) quintet (6) sestet, (7) septet, (8) octave

Types of Poetry

These are just a very few examples of different types of poetry. I will mention some of the poems.

Acrostic

Diamante

Ballad

Song

Monody

Shape Poetry

Category of Poetry

• Love Poems
• Sad Poems
• Friendship Poems
• Poems on Life
• Poetry Buffet
• Classical Poems
• Piptalk Poetry forums

Free Poems

The Cautiousness for life

The words that rends the air everywhere is
We are in a computer age,
Well that's true but my message is
Be life cautious.

Love everything that has life
You are trying but in other way,
You are equalizing the living kingdom
Into a single hierarchy.

My words are simple
Love all creatures;preserve nature blesslife,
Becareful of a civilization
That put too much stock in science.

Unlimited endeavour to preserve life
Will result to an unending,unforgetable regret,
Of the inexistence
Of the natural gift of life.

THE EXTREMITY OF LOVE

You think spy is an easy business

Where you could just take a look,

And have all angles figured out

Like a simple swinging pendulum bob.

I burnt my candles at both ends

Examining this a thousand and a time,

Said for granted word: love

Due to love landscape of the globe.

The feelings of lossing your puppy to death

Is a typical example across the orbit,

That love is surely deep

As the deep blue sea.

Boiling down as concluded fact

If really you have indulged of toxicated oceanic love,

'Sacrification at the expence of your life'

Is the only one million dollar answer.

A GOOD HISTORY

You can be a solitary star
In an historic eclipse
If you want to be.
Just kindle the treasures
Which lie asleep in you,
And cause them to drive you upward
Where Heaven will be your limit.
Neither gold nor silver have you,
But the shining example
Of your moral and intellectual integrity
Beams a cherubic smile
In all radiance of the uncaptured generations.
Has it ever occur to you
That history is angry with those
Who fail to show something good?
To evaluate your testimony on the pulpit
Allow your past works speak for you.
The storm of your exilaration
Is like a glass of good wine
That is built up and explode inside you
Which swept you over and over again.