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Poetry: October 26, 2016 Issue [#7933]

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 This week: A Step Into Dark and Light in Poetry
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About This Newsletter



"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost



"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)




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A Step Into Dark and Light in Poetry


This is the spooky time of year here in the United States. This usually gets me thinking about dark or horror genres, but this time I thought about how both dark and light join together in this wonderful balance. There are the many faces of the jack-o-lantern. Whether happy, sad, angry or evil, the light that dances within it can both punctuate it and transform it. Giggles can be heard from ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and superheroes.

This month I wanted to share a couple of forms that reminded me of this.



A Bit of the Dark: Gothic Poetry

Gothic poetry falls under the genre of dark poetry, and tends to have one or more—usually more—of the following elements: death, macabre, mystery and romance.



MUST HAVES

--Topic: should have one or more of the following: death, macabre, mystery and romance. Think Poe and Mary Shelley. NOTE: If you pick romance or mystery you’ll have a hard time keeping it Gothic unless you add some of the other elements to it.



COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?

--Any rhyme scheme, including no rhyme scheme.

--Amount of stanzas: Any.

--Amount of lines per stanza: Any.

--Meter: Any.



OF NOTE:

Just for fun, here’s a place to madlibly create some gothic poems:

http://www.deadlounge.com/poetry/poems.html




A Bit of the Light: Candlelight Form



BRIEF HISTORY

This is a newer poetry form. Christina Rose Jussaume, a poet from Massachusetts, created this form almost nine years ago.



MUST HAVES

--Amount of lines per stanza: 17.

--Meter is syllabic in the following format: 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7

--Rhyme scheme: AABBCCDEFGHIJKLMN



COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?

--Amount of stanzas: Any.

--Topic: Any.



SOURCE NOTES:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2740826.Christina_R_Jussaume

http://the.a.b.c.of.poetry.styles.patthepoet.com/index.html



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