Quatrain...

'Painting Black Lilies on the Knoll'

Dark Eyes

How does one learn to accept thee

Not question who and what you are

With passion that comes from afar

Full of emotion that can’t flee

Becoming a distant lost soul

Whose angel spirit fell away

Creating shadows of dark gray

Painting black lilies on the knoll

Calling your name hear a love’s breath

As spirits, lighten your sad brow

Come hold my hand - come to me now

True love will take your thought of death

Distant light comes to warm your heart

Brings comfort to body and mind

Open dark eyes totally blind

Come - choose the path to a new start

- Rhoda Galgiani

Quatrain Poetry Form consists of four lines verse with a specific rhyming scheme - Poetry posted is using the envelope rhyme - A few examples of a quatrain rhyming scheme are as follows: #1) abab, #2) abba - envelope rhyme, #3) aabb, #4) aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd - chain rhyme...rg
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Hourglass...

Believe In Oneself

Faith within gives hope to one’s soul

Giving strength to a weakened heart

The spirit conquers a lost goal

Teaches the mind a youthful art

Take one’s struggles cast them aside

Worry none about those who play

Care for yourself with special pride

Become strong - emotions won’t stray

The light shines on you with a glow

Knowing your strength is stronger now

Because you are learning how to grow

Come now take a fabulous bow

Come now take a fabulous bow

Because you are learning how to grow

knowing your strength is stronger now

The light shines on you with a glow

Become strong - emotions won’t stray

Care for yourself with special pride

Worry none about those who play

Take one’s struggles cast them aside

Teaches the mind a youthful art

The spirit conquers a lost goal

Giving strength to a weakened heart

Faith within gives hope to one’s soul

- Rhoda Galgiani

Hourglass Poetry Form contains 8 syllables per line three stanzas and a rhyme scheme of

abab, cdcd, efef - Once written the poem is turned upside down and each line

is repeated - It must make sense both ways...rg

Rictameter...

Thoughts

Wishing

A lost child’s game

Long ago thoughts buried

Sleepy eyed visions wished upon

Hear the bluebirds that have long since been gone

Joyous dreams dance in the night air

Granting wishes somewhere

Hear my thoughts now

Wishing

Searching

At lost and found

Look around for someone

Might be lost and wants to be found

They could seek someone maybe just like me

Pretend you are finally found

By one who came around

The long lost bend

Searching

Binding

Moments in time

Colorful pictures drawn

Captures a memory today

Etched deep within ones mind everlasting

Picture come into ones own thoughts

Heart finds gentle promise

Whispers of love

Binding

- Rhoda Galgiani

Rictameter Poetry Form is a scheme similar to Cinquain - Starting your first line

with a two syllable word, you then consecutively increase the number of syllables

per line by two - 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 - then down again, 8, 6, 4, 2 making the final line
the same two syllable word you began with...rg

Carousel Race...

Up and down, round and round

The carousel circle flow

Around around, up and down

Watch the wooden horse go

 

A childhood memory

We all have a few

A little piece of history

Will never be a fond adieux

 

The painted treasures we did ride

Amongst the many to choose

Our favorite was our pride

To us it did amuse

 

So set yourself and join the pace

The ride is almost through

We always said we won the race

As we ride as our steeds flew

 

~ Dena M. Ferrari ©2011

Here's a little background about the Carousel submitted by the Poet...rg

Description:	Mangels-Carmel
Carousel:	Classic Wood Carousel
Update:	2007
Status:	Active
Year Built:	1915
Type:	4 rows, Park, All Wood composition
Figures:	48 Jumping Horses, 18 Standing Horses, 3 chariots
Music:	Band Organ: Welte w/Gavioli façade. Plays Wurl 165 & B.A.B. rolls
Notes:	Listed in the National Historical Register - 1987
Comments:	May have been special order (3 chariots-complex ornaments). Park is one of 1st planned parks. Owned by Westchester Co.
History:	Savin Rock, New Haven, CT, 1915 to 1929 Rye Playland Park, Rye, NY, 1929 to present

The Question of WHY???

Why are they called apartments

when they are all stuck together?

 

Submitted to 'Expressions' by

Elsie Catterson, NY

Sonnet...

A Women Scorn

The heart has turned away hiding inside

Conceals the pure love that once did glow

Afraid to reveal pain the heart does show

Broken with slashes deep trying to hide
 

Body mends the mind closed the gap so wide

Love has taken the soul far below

Buries the guilt so his hand cannot sow

Heart crying deep tears as true love has died

 

Soul has learned not to trust anymore

Steals ones mind and thoughts not to restore

His lying lips she’s now a woman scorn

Emotions wasted on visions now torn
 

Walks alone to regain life as was born

Brings hope to a women who is lovelorn

 

- Rhoda Galgiani

A Sonnet Poetry Form consists of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba

followed by six lines with a rhyme pattern of cdecde or cdcdcd...rg

Haiku...

A River’s Day

active momentum

talking to the stones beneath

her flow to nowhere

The Longest Night

a winter’s solstice

longest night for an instant

seals eternity

- Rhoda Galgiani

  

This Japanese Haiku Poetry Form is un-rhymed in "traditional" syllable counts of 5, 7, 5 - in 3 line stanzas. The subject is about nature and usually brings much imagery into the poem...rg

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Free Verse...

For Tomorrow

Sensation penetrates the troubled mind

as if to sooth, to comfort the turmoil of 

conflict that came before the darkened brow

Life of confidence, of one’s serenity is

shattered just for the moment at hand

a moment that is taken for granted in life

Ray of light shows a stumble is one’s road

bringing one to their knees just for an instant

not forever as the saddened mind would suggest

Life has its woes that brings one to shed tears

something tells the dark heart not to worry

God’s there to wash one clean for tomorrow

- Rhoda Galgiani

 

Free Verse Poetry Form has no rhyme, no special line length or no special pattern. It sounds like natural speech. It tells a story or paints a picture. It uses carefully chosen words to describe experiences or feelings. It is written like a poem and not like a paragraph. It must make sense to the reader…rg

Domino Rhyme...

Love’s Ribbon

Loving heart has no bound

for it loves you each day

its true moments are there

for love will never stray

Loving heart always say

come to me feel my love

with me, there is no fear

a love will help you bare

Loving heart brings a dove

full of flutter and hope

spreads to the saddest world

happiness and good cheer

Loving heart helps us cope

turn the black world around

bring joy to all our way

love binds like ribbon curled

- Rhoda Galgiani

Domino Rhyme Poetry Form is written in four-line stanzas, within which there are no rhymes at all - However, every line rhymes with a line in another stanza - Specifically, lines 2 and 3 of each stanza rhyme with lines 1 and 4 respectively of the next stanza - The final stanza completes the loop, its lines 2 and 3 rhyming with lines 1 and 4 of the first stanza - Poem was written in 6 syllables per line - Rhyme scheme is a, b, c, d; b, e, f, c; e, g, h, f...rg