Anaphora is the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases Anaphora comes from the Greek word for “carrying up or back” Anaphora is the repetition … Continue reading Poetic Form: Anaphora
Tag: Poem
Hands
hands thin as spider legs stronger than steel trace draconic runes across my skin igniting vessels of blood as I lay alone in the dark
Poetic Form: Blackout Poem
A Blackout Poem is a type of found poem (to be discussed later) that is created by taking a piece of text, say a newspaper article or a page from … Continue reading Poetic Form: Blackout Poem
Toxic Poem
There once was a dragon who wrote many tales and poems of note she hid them away among toxic decay for a knight with the antidote.
Poetic Form: Acrostic
A letter in each line Can be used to parsh out Reasonable words and phrases Only if the letters used Start at the beginning Thus forming a vertical Informal riddle … Continue reading Poetic Form: Acrostic
What the fuck is this shit?
I see streets of gray, gray buildings too. I see them grow around me and you. And I think to myself: What the fuck is this shit? I see skies of … Continue reading What the fuck is this shit?
What You Leave, What I Keep
You left concave shapes scattered around the house molds filing up with my tears. I keep fine fibers of you – hair strands, sock lint, dust -warm in my pocket.
Imitation
I wash the canvas bleeding bruised blues into black dripping drops of white onto purple yellow bursts attempting to capture you.
Poetic Form: Tanka
The tanka (or waka) is a classical Japanese poetic form, typically consisting of five lines or units (lines in the Romanized forms). Each line or unit has a specific number … Continue reading Poetic Form: Tanka
School Days
The taste of nickle fills my mouth as I put on my bulletproof vest over my Superman shirt and kiss my mother goodbye.
The Literary Dragon 