Nina's Blog

Thursday, September 21, 2006

poems

Tanka
Wild Horses
Stallion rearing
Wild horses running free
Nobody catch them
Foals are born wild and free
Let them stay that way.

Tanka is a longer version of a Haiku. A Tanka is a syllable poem. 5 syllables are in the first line then 7 syllables in the second. Another 5 syllables in the next line then 7 then 5 again.


Quatrain Poem
Fire
Fire will crackle and spit,
Fire produces hot black poisonous smoke,
Fire’s hot flames fly, flicker, fall,
And then I start to choke
As the fire dyes,
I fall to the wooden floor,
Then I start to die,
As the horrible smoke drifts out the door.

Quatrain poems are rhyming poems. This kind of poem is got stanzas in it. I have 2 stanzas in my poem. The rhyming part goes like this a, b, c, b. The b’s both rhyme together. I had to be very descriptive!