I, Tiffany Joy, am a poet. I love sharing every poem I write with all who want to read them. I do this on my site by using the category ‘poetry‘ and also adding this tag to each post.
Can I give you strength?
Will you run away
If I tell you I love you
If I build you up
will you stay?
How can I help you
How can I help you grow
If I do what will happen
If I lend a helping hand
Will you show me that you care?
I really do hope I can help
I really do hope you will stay.
There is a little cafe near my house that I believe I am becoming a regular at. Today I went by myself and had breakfast. I decided to write a little as I waited. This is one of the poems I wrote while enjoying their food. It really is a great place.
With painted wall,
warm and inviting
art hangs welcoming guest
saying be who you are
do what you will
and enjoy the good that is served
With the sky on the ceiling
bright and pleasing
curtains hang to welcome guest
saying come near or far
do what you will
and enjoy the food that is served
So I write and dream
sitting in the corner so I can watch
the couples eat
The students study
and an other lone female reading the paper
I sit, watch and writing
doing what I will
and enjoying the food that is served.
Poetry comes out
with my eyes closed
when sleep in near;
brilliant poems flow
when paper is far
and repeating is not enough.
Wisdom and intelligence overwhelm me
when the only outlet is to speak it to myself
or when no one is listening.
Yet when I open my eyes
words fly away
like fading dreams they fly.
The poetry inside is trapped
like a rat in a house unable to be freed
as soon as the paper is in reach.
I open my mouth when some is around
and only babble spews out.
So I write with my eyes closed,
freeing my poems from the paper trap
and write when no on is around
with the quiet of my mind.
Nonet
A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second line eight syllables, the third line seven syllables, etc… until line nine finishes with one syllable. It can be on any subject and rhyming is optional.
line 1 – 9 syllables
line 2 – 8 syllables
line 3 – 7 syllables
line 4 – 6 syllables
line 5 – 5 syllables
line 6 – 4 syllables
line 7 – 3 syllables
line 8 – 2 syllables
line 9 – 1 syllables
Why must I do this thing I called art?
Is there a stop once you start?
I think the answer is no
like love it for sure grows
with no stopping point
which brings joy
Love is art?
indeed
yes
I liked doing this type. I found a syllable counter. Once I had that tool it was really fun to create a count-down poem.
Let me know what you think and if you like it click the like button and I’ll do a poetry reading of it.
Also THANK YOU for reading my blog.
Kyrielle
A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the amount of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but three is considered the accepted minimum.
Some popular rhyming schemes for a Kyrielle are: aabB, ccbB, ddbB, with B being the repeated line, or abaB, cbcB, dbdB.
Mixing up the rhyme scheme is possible for an unusual pattern of: axaZ, bxbZ, cxcZ, dxdZ, etc. with Z being the repeated line.
The rhyme pattern is completely up to the poet.
I dream of life worth living
one with a crazy love worth having
Where there is ice cream everyday
And the sun shines the gloom away
Is there such a life like that,
where you be relaxed like a cat
sitting in the sun for the day
And the sun shines the gloom away.
I could be happy how I am
smiling with joy at how I am
I don’t have to wait for one day
and the sun shines the gloom away.
As I start to wake up on this Sunny Saturday I’m finding it hard to get out of bed. It’s not because I don’t want to do this the things I am going to do today. I am plan on recording seven poetry readings and two original monologues, that I will be able to post during the week. I am plan to buy a new camcorder today, as a reward for meeting my goal of a weekly video and blog for two months. I also plan on painting a background painting for my twitter, Facebook, and this blog’s header, to join all my sites together. I’m looking forward to these things, I just don’t want to start the day. Yet, the day has to start so I will start it now.
Now onto this past week.
I am still trying to get back into the swing of things and getting back on my schedule with writing and creating. I did write some, but my television shows dragged me into a state of unproductive behavior. I still did write a poem and made sure that there was a post every day. Most of the posts were left over from my vacation, but I still edited them this week and posted them.
This next week should be interesting since I will be recording so many poetry readings and videos today, that I’m excited to do. I am also excited because starting this week the DreamWard Bound series will become more useful. I am going to stop posting every video that I make on this blog and have this blog focused on my writing more. Instead I will post the videos I did during the week here, under “the list of things I posted this week,” or whatever I decide to call my recap list that week. This change will free up some of my time and organize this blog.
If you have watched all my videos on this blog, you can still check to see if I posted things here. You will just have to look under my twitter or Facebook page, which is now on the side menu bar. You can also follow me on either one using those widgets. The twitter one you simply have an extra step of clicking on my name then you can click follow, if you are logged into twitter. I typically use them to post announcements of my videos being posted on YouTube (which you can also follow me on).
List of things I posted this week.
Where Magic May Grow
Plane Poem
Mindless Monologue
Out The Window
Intro To YouTube
Kyrielle Sonnet
A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming couplet). Just like the traditional Kyrielle poem, the Kyrielle Sonnet also has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet consists of only eight syllables. French poetry forms have a tendency to link back to the beginning of the poem, so common practice is to use the first and last line of the first quatrain as the ending couplet. This would also re-enforce the refrain within the poem. Therefore, a good rhyming scheme for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be:
AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.
Can I fly over the green trees?
Can I swim pass the open seas
To a land I do not yet know
Where magic may live and may grow.
What wonders and what sounds may be sung?
What treasures and gems may be flung
on the land where I want to go?
Where magic may live and may grow.
Will you take me some where magical?
Can we try to be radical
living where music freely flows
Where magic may live and may grow.
Can I fly over the green trees
Where magic may live and may grow.
Let me look down
Through the sky
pass the puffed up clouds
Let me look down
on all the little towns
If you let me
I will imagine my life
what dream lives could I live
in every little town.
I’m flying by
so many tiny little town
I’m flying by
these towns that are so small
these towns are so far away
Still I will imagine
I will dream
Life in these towns are simple and neat
most are flat
Life in these towns are simple and neat
some are designed
All are American with apple pie shops
In the center of town there is a square
with a Quartet that signs every sunny summer Sunday
It’s a shame that you can only fly over
no one can land
not in these tiny little town
that only truly lives in a dreamer’s dream
Let me know what you think and thank you for reading.
No, no you can not sleep
not when the sun-shines
not when the heat beats.
No there is no slumber
not when they day is bright
and the sun shines it’s light.
No, no you can not sleep
not until the night falls
and the sun sets.
No there is no sleep
not under the children closes their eyes
and the nights cools your tan.
Lanturne
The Lanturne is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one.
Sun
rises
over the
blue sky so high
sigh.
Touch
the sky
with your dreams
love your future
dream.
Since this was a short and sweet I wrote two.
Let me know what you think. Comments are always welcomed.
As a friendly reminder I am on vacation, so I am not doing my regular DreamWard Bound update post.