Park Bench Poetry

By openadoor34

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Take a leisurely stroll through the park, sit on a bench facing the pond, and watch the ducks frolicking arou... More

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Sue and Joey
Hypnotized
For Heaven To Be A Haven
The Drab Bell
A Rose
The Aircraft Marshaller
Sole Mates
Magic Rainbow
Put Your Best Foot Forward
Christmas Eve
Nut Case
Aromatherapy
Prepared For Death
New Muse
Ursula And Baby
Christmas in the Klink
A Drunk Dunker
Epitaphs
Circus Freak
We Eat With Our Eyes First
The Oxygen Mask
The Limerick Shrek Didn't Write
Christ
Three Lines
The King & the barkeep
Beth and Kevin
Painful Poesy
Ataraxis
Scrape
Dark Chocolate Bunny
A Geriatric Limerick
Some Snake's Supper
Green Dream
Alliteration Aggravation
The Pasta Poem
Jack & Honey
Butterfly's Plea
An Escort To Heaven
A Question
Favors (senryu)
Passions Penned
String of Pearls
Advent Wreath Nature Walk
Surfer
I Am Not
California Condor
Ghost of Abe Lincoln
His Name Is Bob
An Interruption
Lipstick (acrostic)
Differently Abled
There is Always Light (a children's poem)
The Wave Pool
A Golden Greet
Church Ladies
The PEG Feeding Tube
Gratitude
The Glorious Flower
Mouth
A Santa Skill
Bare Trees
Creepy Love
Biting My Tongue
The End of an Era
Mom Jeans
On The Rag
Get Over Yourself
Sunset (tanka)
Judy
A Celebrity's Influence
I apologize (an acrostic poem)
How to Write a Haiku (satire)
The Friendship Deal-Breaker
Phil & His Leaf Blower
Internal Rhymes (humor)
Moon (haiku)
Flappy Yappy
Something Beautiful
Quiet Evening
The Wingless Club
The Bigger Person
Dead Marie
Return Address Label
The Pushy 'Padder
The Zigzag Painting (an alphabet poem)
Zealous Youth (a backwards alphabet poem)
Fright (a 31-word Halloween acrostic poem)
Lasting Effect
Thursday

The Birthday Blabbermouth

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By openadoor34


With megaphone held tight in hand

A gesture grand

She makes the plea

To you and me

-

It's WhatsHerHoozy's special day!

Rejoice, I say!

Announce her age

And spam her page!

-

Come, write a poem, sing a song

I'll tag the throng!

Calm down now, lass

Pain in the ass

~~~

A/N: This poetry form is called Minute.

I don't know whether the Minute is pronounced as min-it or mi-noot, but Minute Poetry is a rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in iambic meter. An iamb is a unit of rhythm in poetry that consists of one syllable that is not accented or stressed followed by one syllable that is accented or stressed. Joyce Kilmer's poem "Trees" was written in iambic meter.

Excerpt from "Trees":

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

The term "meter" is the pattern of the beats in a poem. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables. The difference in types of meter is which syllables are accented and which are not.

Minute Poetry is formatted into three stanzas of 8-4-4-4, 8-4-4-4, 8-4-4-4 syllables, and a rhyme scheme of aabb, ccdd, eeff.


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