Ancient Trees A Poem
May 23rd 2007 07:39
This is dedicated to Brenton ... that poem he posted recently with the photo haunted me for a few days and I kept hearng the phrase ancient trees ... ancient trees.
I have used a combination of syllabic metre ( syllables per line ) with a rhyme scheme in triplets ? This Poem has 14 lines like a sonnet. Ig anyone wnats to play with the form go ahead ...maybe we can develop a new sonnet form?
Ancient Trees A Poem by J. Vaux Shaped 10-11 pm May 21 20007 Copyright J. Vaux 2007
First a note on the Poetic Schema
3 Lines in each stanza of 6 8 10 syllables.
Each stanza uses the same end rhyme.
There are four stanza and the poem ends in a couplet with a different rhyme so
6a 8a 10a ,6a 8a 10a, 6b 8b 10b, 6b 8b 10b, 8c 8c.
Those who prefer “free” verse might want to follow the syllable pattern and leave off the end rhyme? You could make the triplet stanzas terza rima or change the end rhyme pattern to alternating a / b or a b c d and ee for the final couplet? Whatever works?
Here's the poem.
Ancient trees standing tall
Giants they seem more than mortal
Yet under a storm of axe strikes they'll fall
Entropy rules us all
This near that far the great and small
The least and the most swift or slow shall fall
Hidden by the wreckage
Awoken by the carnage
Seeds stir ready to restore green foliage
The ravished acreage
Broken another sacrilege
By humans stolen for mere pasturage
Will with a sweet caress of weeds
Be revenged by those seeds!
I have used a combination of syllabic metre ( syllables per line ) with a rhyme scheme in triplets ? This Poem has 14 lines like a sonnet. Ig anyone wnats to play with the form go ahead ...maybe we can develop a new sonnet form?
Ancient Trees A Poem by J. Vaux Shaped 10-11 pm May 21 20007 Copyright J. Vaux 2007
First a note on the Poetic Schema
3 Lines in each stanza of 6 8 10 syllables.
There are four stanza and the poem ends in a couplet with a different rhyme so
6a 8a 10a ,6a 8a 10a, 6b 8b 10b, 6b 8b 10b, 8c 8c.
Those who prefer “free” verse might want to follow the syllable pattern and leave off the end rhyme? You could make the triplet stanzas terza rima or change the end rhyme pattern to alternating a / b or a b c d and ee for the final couplet? Whatever works?
Here's the poem.
Ancient trees standing tall
Giants they seem more than mortal
Yet under a storm of axe strikes they'll fall
Entropy rules us all
This near that far the great and small
The least and the most swift or slow shall fall
Hidden by the wreckage
Awoken by the carnage
Seeds stir ready to restore green foliage
The ravished acreage
Broken another sacrilege
By humans stolen for mere pasturage
Will with a sweet caress of weeds
Be revenged by those seeds!
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