Feast of Poetry!

[stryck]

Here is your invitation to my feast of poetry! I have volunteered to cook one dish for each of you. All you have to do is ask

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[jenny_evergreen]

*points to icon* Those are my boys.

[stryck]

They're cuties! Do you have a preference on form?

[jenny_evergreen]

Thanks! I'm thinking something about brothers, maybe, as they are a good pair. I'm open on form. :)

[stryck]

My brother, we shall be Olympian!
We'll conquer trials Herculean;
Though sorely tested, we'll not be bested
So long as we stand as brothers true,
As Caster and Pollux were known to do.

(For the life of me, I can't remember the name of this poetic form, but at least I remembered the form!)

Yes, please!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I would like a villanelle, please. I have posted a photo prompt here:
http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/996656.html

I also linked to your project from my LJ. Good luck with this -- and thanks for putting more poetry love into the world!

Re: Yes, please!

[stryck]

This is my first villanelle. Interesting form, kinda tricky. If you have a moment, could you look at the previous poem for jenny_evergreen and see if you know the name for the form? I can't recall- it's been years since I learned that one. Anyway, your poem-

I love to play on snowy hills,
To hear it crunching as I run
And chase away my winter chills.

I know a few who balk at spills
But nothing keeps me from my fun;
I love to play on snowy hills.

I don my boots and arm for drills,
For battles that are never won
And chase away my winter chills.

With armor thick and daring thrills
And epic quests but just begun,
I love to play on snowy hills.

Then steaming milk and cocoa fills
My mug to warm me when I'm done
And chase away my winter chills.

For cold's the least among those ills
That press me when I pine the sun.
I love to play on snowy hills
And chase away my winter chills.

Re: Yes, please!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yay! This is fun. Thank you for sharing.

A feast!

[laffingkat]

What a splendid idea! Here are a couple of suggestions for ingredients: http://not.bloodylikely.org/photos/2009/April/options_bigIndex/IMG_7039a.jpg__view.html or http://not.bloodylikely.org/photos/2009/May/options_bigIndex/IMG_8059a.jpg__view.html. And as to recipe, I am partial to triolets or haiku, but we've already done haiku, so if you lean in that direction, perhaps a haibun or a tanka?

Re: A feast!

[stryck]

Inspiration struck on yours first! This triolet is for the 2nd picture, of the three youths.

I was looking forward to today
If only she weren't here.
To see a movie, or a play,
I was looking forward to today.
"It's not so bad," is what you say,
Your thoughts are plain, I fear-
"I was looking foward to today,
If only she weren't here."

Re: A feast!

[laffingkat]

Oh, that's perfect, Well done! And so quickly too! Color me impressed. :)

[siege]

I have some ingredients: Patience, thyme, caverns.
I have a recipe: the ode.
I am promoting this on my LJ.

[stryck]

The Patient Gardener

[aldersprig]

I really like this phrase... Lift the dead with spades
And rakes and cast them to the heap

and then The earth is butchered, torn apart,

Yes. that's what gardening is often like.

[anher]

Let's see... Fire, water and beginning(s)

I don't have any particular form in mind, have fun with it.

[stryck]

I gave up on doing something big and profound. It just wasn't working. So...

Something always goes wrong on the first day of school.
The rest of the year is fine, as a rule,
but something goes wrong on that first day of school.

But it has to happen, or the year is cursed.
If all goes well, then that's the worst-

It may be something large and hairy,
It may be something small and scary,
It always happens, so be wary.

Something must go wrong, so here I am
With a match in the kitchen, and grease in the pan.