I wrote this poem as a villanelle. It follows the five stages of grief.
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Nobody's Land
This is a poem based on the ancient Persian myth of the heroic-archer, Arash. A story of self-sacrifice. But here, I interpret the myth from an apolitical humanist point of view. I’ve written this poem as a cinquain; combining 3 unique forms of cinquain in one. The first form uses 1 word, then 2, then 3, then 4, then 1 word per subsequent line. The second form uses a pronoun, then 2 adjectives, then 3 words ending in -ing, then a phrase, then a different noun describing the pronoun. The third form uses 2 syllables, then 4, then 6, then 8, then 2 syllables for each subsequent line. The unification of these forms is intended to add another layer to a poem about the spurious divide between ethnicities—and by extension, nations.
Generations
I wrote this poem as a double tetractys, but with a rhyming scheme of my own: first and fourth lines rhyme, mirrored by the seventh and last; second and third lines rhyme, mirrored by the eighth and ninth; the two middle decasyllabic lines rhyme with each other to emphasize the transition from what should be to what ought not be. Finally, I utilized a homograph to start and end the poem to incite retrospect. Overall, this poem is meant to convey the importance of selfless parenting, with an underlying sense of legacy.
Pigments of Pathos
I wrote this as a simple decasyllabic quatrain drawing upon color to convey a sense of pathos to the reader.
Hymn of Hephaestus
I wrote this as a Petrarchan sonnet, but using alternating lines of iambic, and trochaic pentameter.
Nepenthe of Oblivion
I wrote this poem in the form terza rima, ending it with a couplet.
Soul Atlas
I wrote this in basic vers libre. For some, we lose ourselves to the world to find ourselves within. We realize we live entirely in our heads; steeped in our escapism. Outwardly we become silent, so to the world we become nothing. We are free of its superficialities.