Poem Wiki


        Let's raise the tone of our converse

        By rhyming everything in verse;

        To rhyme is harder than to prose

        But pithier and less verbose;

        A poem, ripe with potent signal

        Displays wisdom in its original

        Text, received pure from the Muses,

        Unsullied by noise, rust, and abuses.


        Further rhyming enlarges the mind

        Exercising forebrain with the hind

        Mental quarters - what better than scansion

        To add some rooms to your mental mansion?

        In even doggerelish limericks

        Lie enlightning, delightful gimmericks

        Dispense with prose and all blank verse!

        Forestall the EndOfWiki curse!

        Today, tomorrow, from now on

        Make WikiPages ring with song!

With apologies to OgdenNash and his estate. -- PeterMerel

--


        FileHeaders HaiKu,

        Spring flowers sleep, burst and fall

        Nor reason nor rhyme.

--


        I tell You dears, in sweetest candor

        Who are Dense with Alexander

        Rhyming words like 'Bee' and 'Sea'

        Made Edgar Allan Poe a Tree

        Impatient fingers drumming, drumming

        'e' and 'e' were slow in cumming...

        Finish up at any cost

        This steely helix, crossed and crossed --

        My chain link fence to Robert Frost.


        -- WaldenMathews

A work in progress -

: The Wiki Doth Restore My Soul

: (a PetrarchanSonnet)

: Betimes my choice of craft meseemeth vain

: And all my pretty artifices fail

: Nor my long years of learning do avail

: To ravel out the tangle-threaded skein

: Of logic, and of pattern, and of pain

: That I have wound about me as a jail

: And as the heaven's vault doth dawnward pale

: My tears and curses pour like thund'ring rain.

: Then to Ward's web I wiki-quickly go,

: That global confraternity of mind,

: The QualityWithoutaName to know.

: A measure of nepenthes there I find,

: There I regain the MentalStateCalledFlow

: And to my task return, grief left behind.

: -- CameronSmith


        Of course, this is WikiOnWiki, and as such gravely OffTopic...

        And leaves the keyboard all sticky, and the eyeballs all dim and myopic ...

Drivel:

An example of SeparateThreadsFromContent.

Rhyming is only one of several methods of forming sound linkages in poetry. Actually, a poem is defined as a bunch of text presented in structured form. So that if it is reproduced, the line breaks and positioning need to be reproduced as well. This paragraph is not a poem then.

Actually, poetry has nothing at all to do with the presentation of text on a page. Poetry is a verbal medium; poems are meant to be spoken and to be heard. Line breaks help to determine the intended spoken rhythm of a poem, but "a bunch of text presented in structured form" is not a poem any more than "a bunch of lines and dots written on staves" is music.

"No, not exactly. Not all poetry needs to be read aloud or heard. That is certainly where poetry was started, but poetry can be designed specifically for the page. In this case formatting issues would be absolutely critical. So although poetry can be a verbal medium, it is not defined that way, at least not these days. Visual poetry is legit, too."

: Your words slay poetry, which delights my eyes

: And lands deaf on my deaf ears.

Okay, I'm not deaf, but may I suggest that poetry can have both visual and auditory parts, and that each may delight different audiences?


        You say that I am full of shit

        And lacking in important wit

        My reasoning is all askew

        And hasn't anything to do

        With logic, beauty or good grace;

        Shame should redden up my face

        And hairy palms wipe tears away

        From dimming eyes - Onan's dismay

        Was all the dues that I could pay;

        A failing mind weren't all inside

        My egg-shell skull and woe betide

        Those sloppy egg-white bits of brain

        That ran out from their own disdain

        For nasty foolish bad ideas

        That festered here between my ears.

        I'd say you're right, but that would take

        More art and thought than in me bake. -- Pete.

Observing the above, the rhyming portion is a lot easier to grok than the HaiKu. Rhythmic poetry in general seems too hard. But then others may find it easier to HaiKuMe than RhymeMe. Try it and let's see!

Haiku ain't that rhythmic, either.


        My rival is dead

        My explicit sympathies

        Cold rain, falling tears

Haiku is meant to convey emotions --sometimes complex emotions-- in a simple way. -- ClintonLabombard

i came here to escape the killing floor many pages died tonight and i alone am ishmael to tell the tale

i am mishima

hero mishima of sun and steel the author dead by his command

but all that aside thanks for this sanctuary

...

this line in the first wikipoem on this page struck me: A poem, ripe with potent signal

reminds me of

A poem should not mean but be

palpable and mute as a globed fruit

hier stock ich schon!

i can't figure out how to do the é in globéd....

-- TomRossen 200212140145

WikiHack

When wording Wikis,

One wonders

WHY?

WHERE?

WILL

words work?

or worsen-

wearily,

wildly,

waste

wordless

wisdom?

WHAT?


        finding wiki brave and new

        not quite certain what to do

        so I'm trying out a rhyme

        to play within the paradigm

-CL LA

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