12 Days of Poetry

Welcome everyone to the 12 Days of Poetry. Much like the 12 Days of Christmas, you will be gifting the Poetry subforum with twelve different poems. Each poem will be a different kind, ranging in difficulty. There will also be an explanation on the poetry kind, so everyone will have some understanding on it.

A new kind will be revealed every day until December 25th. When the giving is over, participants who wrote a poem for the twelve different kinds will receive a brand-new emblem! It's a surprise what it looks like.

Just post your Christmas tree in this thread, and the mod team will keep track of them. A new post will go up on the start of the new day, and the front post will be edited with the new style so everyone can follow.

And, as always, have fun!


On the first day of the holidays, the Poetry forum gave to me... A poem in the style of free verse!

Free verse poems are poems that follow no specific guidelines. They don't have to rhyme in a particular pattern. They don't have to follow any certain meter. The poet is more in control with this style of poetry.


Day 1: Free verse
Day 2: Rhyming
Day 3: Haiku
Day 4: Limerick
Day 5: Enjambment
Day 6: Acrostic
Day 7: Doggerel
Day 8: Imagery
Day 9: Tanka
Day 10: Ballard
Day 11: Sonnet
Day 12: canzone


List of Participants
Aisu: 3

DeathGodKyo: 2 3

Forever: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Kayges: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Misheard Whisper: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Palladium: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

SeekerOfDarkness: 2 1 3 4

tente2: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Toujours: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Zeffy: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

I'm in without a single iota of hesitation! Sign me up. (Do the poems have to be Christmas-themed?)

Free Verse - Something About Christmas

Something is coming,
It's the time of the year.
Everything happens at once.
People are rushing
Preparing for the time
When everything comes to a head
For the twenty-fifth is the time
When we all come together
And celebrate, however that may be.

We don't all believe in Jesus
We don't all believe in the virgin birth
We don't even all believe in anything at all
But there's something about Christmas
That puts such trivialities out of the way.
There's something about Christmas
That brings people together,
Regardless of differences of opinion.
There's just something unique

About Christmas.

Ehh, I'll give it a go. Anything for the Poetry forum! Oh, and I suppose poems are supposed to be Christmas themed? Well, eh, anyways, here's my poem for day 1.

~~~~~

The dog who barked on Christmas

Bark, bark, bark!
Shouted the dog outside the door
Bark, bark, bark!
His paws fiercely stomped on the floor

Bark, bark, bark!
Shouted the dog again
Bark, bark, bark!
As there entered three tall men

Bark, bark, bark!
He wanted to break free
Bark, bark, bark!
When the horses neighed with glee

Bark, bark, bark!
A baby's cry was heard
Bark, bark, bark!
And the dog, full of pride, just stood

~~~~~

The poems don't actually have to be Christmas-themed. But you do all get special bonus points for writing Christmas-themed poems. Maybe a special challenge will be to write all the poems about Christmas if you want.

But you've all been added to the list, and thank you!

It's a new day for me (I'm in the Eastern Time Zone, so it's one in the morning now) so a new kind of poem!

On the second day of the holidays, the Poetry forum gave to me...poems with two rhymes in them!

This day is all about rhyming poems. Rhyming poems have similar-sounding words, or even the same word, at the end of lines. The rhyming pattern can be any way. Nursery rhymes are great examples of various rhyming poem patterns.

You don't only need two rhymes in the poem. You can have as many as you want.

FIRST

Rhyming Poem - Trim The Tree

It's time to decorate the tree,
So everyone gather round.
With carols and laughter and hullabaloo,
It's a marvellous, happy sound.

Everyone's brought a bauble or two,
To hang on the Christmas tree.
They sparkle and glitter and don't really match,
But they all look fantastic to me.

There's cheap plastic globes in all colours,
With red, gold and silver and blue.
And sparkling, fanciful stars
That let the draped strings of lights shine through.

And colourful tinsel in swathes and strands,
Strung liberally over the boughs.
It's a bit of a mess, but it's the best tree
Because before anything else, it's ours.

Oops I missed the first day. Well, I'll just start with a rhymey poem then.

Let the Snow Fall

Outside, hear the angels
Singing loud and with cheer
While children fill the cold air
With laughter for all to hear
Quietly, the snow falls
While the children play
Today the snow has fallen
Let it fall all day

Updated the list.

Oops I missed the first day. Well, I'll just start with a rhymey poem then.

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You can always backtrack/catch up on previous days if you want.

Nearly forgot about this. Speaker!

On the third day of the holidays, the Poetry forum gave to me...three haikus!

Haiku is a type of poetry originating from Japan. It consists of three lines. The first and third lines have five syllables, and the second line has seven.

Again: No you don't have to write three poems.

I am quite late with this event, but I will just have to catch up. I'm not experienced at all in poetry, but I have an idea.

Free Verse ~ Crossing Paths

The carriage halts and I'm off,
Wind throwing my hair all over,
Dark clouds foreshadowing,
The cold air threatening all life,
A blizzard approaches us

In the castle we all cross paths,
He is wise and humorous,
She is warm yet serious,
And you are shy to meet my eyes,
We are destined to fight together

Rhyming ~ Team

Our eyes were light with fire
We all breathe in time
Our souls will never tire
As one, we cross the line

Not one of us feel lost
We banish dark with light
Protect each other at any cost
We share the will to fight

Haiku ~ Decisive Battle

Surrounded by foes
The tides of war are shifting
We struggle to stand

Our fire is dim
My vision is going red
Was our fate to fail?

I hear your voice, though
Rekindled is our passion
We tip the balance

I can catch up? Awesome! I'll just do that then.

~Freeverse~

Tree of Lights

With colors dancing on a string
And silver bells of joyous song
The mighty tree stands tall and proud
For it has come a very long way

Through icy winds and freezing rain
It patiently waited for the day
When the man with the axe would set it free
And send it here for some family

It's seen the sun, it knows the stars
It's seen enough clouds to fill a lifetime
It watched its friends be born, then die
But all it wants is to be a tree of lights

Its fought the cold, defeated fall
Now it stands tall above all else
In your living room, a joyous sight
It knows it is a tree of lights

~Haiku~

A Snowflake

A falling snowflake
Sees the blanket down below
And knows that it's unique