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"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."

~~~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1923 ~~~



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Asian-Inspired Patterns


CLIMBING RHYME
A classic Burmese poetry form with an interesting internal rhyme pattern.
JAPANESE PATTERNS
Includes haiku, senryu, tanka, tan renga, renga and other verse patterns.
RENGA
Explore the fascinating world of renga, with explanation and examples.
SAYINGS OF THE WISE SHANG-TI
The guru-ku of a would-be wiseman. You might call them proverbs. Some call them haiku. Others call them nonsense.
SIJO
Korea's favorite lyric poetry, a relative of similar Chinese and Japanese forms. Discover a new world of poetry.
SIJO MASTERS IN TRANSLATION
Sijo by Korean masters of the classical period adapted into English.


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Other Poetry Patterns


THE GROSSBLANK
A 12-line poem in blank verse, but with 12 syllables per line instead of 10, an invention of yours truly. Twelve times twelve equals 144, which equals one gross. (Sorry about that!)
POETRY FORMS
New pages! Definitions of poetry forms and patterns, with examples.



Other Useful Stuff


LINKS TO POETRY FORMS AND TERMINOLOGY
An ever-growing list of links to poetry forms and glossaries of literry terms. NEWLY UPDATED.
POWER INDEX
A simple method for measuring and evaluating the power of your writing. An excellent tool for revision.
QUOTATIONS FOR POETS
An email service providing 4 or 5 notable quotations hopefully of interest to poets and other writers.
THE CAVES OF SHANG-TI
A weblog with poetry, comments and who knows what else?
TOOLKIT FOR POETS AND OTHER WRITERS
Extensive links to sites useful to all readers and writers.
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