Today is the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight. Yuri Gagarin What poems are you reading/writing this week? Prompt: Space Continue reading Calliope Corner #9

Let all the flowers wake to life;Let all the songsters sing;Let everything that lives on earthBecome a joyous thing. Wake up, thou pansy, purple-eyed,And greet the dewy spring;Swell out, ye buds, and o’er the earthThy sweetest fragrance fling. Why dost … Continue reading Calliope Corner #8

March is slain; the keen winds fly;Nothing more is thine to do;April kisses thee good-bye;Thou must haste and follow too;Silent friend that guarded wellWithered things to make us glad,Shyest friend that could not tellHalf the kindly thought he had.Haste thee, … Continue reading Calliope Corner #7

Rhyming Schema “Rhyming scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.” “The rhyme patterns … Continue reading Calliope Corner #6

Here’s the final 10 poems from a 2015 tournament for the best loved Irish poem of the last 100 years Continue reading Calliope Corner #5

Metre is a device used in poetry. “The metre of most poetry of the Western world and elsewhere is based on patterns of syllables of particular types. The familiar type of metre in English-language poetry is called qualitative metre, with stressed … Continue reading Calliope Corner #4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme#Types_of_rhyme Classification by position Rhymes may be classified according to their position in the verse: There’s also visual rhyme: Eye rhymes or sight rhymes or spelling rhymes refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound where the final sounds … Continue reading Calliope Corner #3

Poetry is a literary art. It is distinct from non-fiction and fiction. Poetry can overlap with fiction/non-fiction, e.g in Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (The Nature Of Things), prose-poems and purple prose. The earliest poems were written in Africa and concern … Continue reading Calliope Corner #2

Here’s the first of a weekly (until I lose interest) series of poetry posts. Alliteration for the win. This is Calliope, the muse of epic poetry. This a calliope. This is a poem by Louis MacNeice. Morning Sun Shuttles of … Continue reading Calliope Corner