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Rainspirit
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Username: Rainspirit
| | Posted on Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 05:47 pm: | 
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I have had a request to revisit the "nonce" form of poetry. A brief and loose definition of a Nonce form of poetry :
A nonce form is generally created by a poet for a specific poem but which may, over time, and with repeated usage by subsequent poets, become a "received form."
So my friends...if you have created a nonce form....share your poem and then come here and post a link to that poem and a brief synopsis of the rules of your Nonce.
No winners or losers, just a chance to show off your wonderfully creative imaginations.
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 05:25 am: |
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oh hurray!...the muse has created at least four forms or nonce through this vessel...
the first one i'll introduce is the thirteen form...
it is a fairly loose form because all that it requires is that four lines contain thirteen syllables..
it can rhyme or not...
it can be chained together or used as a haiku like idea...usually when chained the fourth lines all rhyme...this too is optional
here is a poem created using many of the forms a thirteen can assume
the first stanza could stand alone and was originally all of the poem
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they play
they play
forgetting everything
silently
i spy
my past youth
springs to memory
of joy
days gone by
glee
laughter
my heart remembering
at least i try
children's games
taunting songs they sing
yesteryears
'twas i.
they play
pose unwittingly
photos
my alibi
i spy
on my children's reverie
sometimes,
i cry
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 05:46 am: |
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links to a couple other thirteens
loss
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125362.html
we - our
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91061873.html
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and let me add that i can just barely wait to try on nonce forms others will post here!
moon spirit
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Tinyteddy
Starlite Moderator
Username: Tinyteddy
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 07:53 am: |
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Ok here is my attempt at one.
Bonnet
Four lines in each stanza, no set meter or rhyme scheme required but nothing says you can't make up your own and add meter. After each stanza go back and take one word from each line to form a smaller powerful stanza.That's it, pretty simple.
Liberties Pen
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125259.html
Put yesterday behind you and don't worry about tomorrow,live for today.
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 08:57 am: |
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okay...got it bonny...just my stupid
'can't understand directions' thing got in the way...a very powerful form!...i love it!
i will use it often i think...is it your very own?
here's my first
seasons change us
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125482.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 09:01 am: |
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oh oh...just read your email
in the above description there was no mention of order...i'll try one with an order for taking the words next time...
moon spirit
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Tinyteddy
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Username: Tinyteddy
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 09:10 am: |
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No, no, you got it right...just one word from each line it can be any word say from the first line and so on.
As far as I know no one else has created it I did it from bordom one day lol.
Put yesterday behind you and don't worry about tomorrow,live for today.
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 03:23 pm: |
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ooh i love this form...
here's another one created in your lovely nonce
called
let us be
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125516.html
i'll be back to share another nonce form later...think i'll share the dragonfly form
hope others join in the fun so i can learn more nonce forms!
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 04:40 pm: |
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another thirteen
called
9/11
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125525.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 04:41 pm: |
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more thirteens...then i'm back with a 'dragonfly'
faith
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125527.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 04:49 pm: |
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a thirteen in which the stanzas are thirteens...bound by a common theme
these things i hold
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91088470.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 04:57 pm: |
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this is the first dragonfly...
it is a form that is counted syllables...
rhyming or not...
this first one did not...
many others written since then rhyme in various patterns...
the form can be used as a single stanza..or linked by rhyme, theme or last to first lines of consecutive stanzas...
what makes a dragonfly?
1st line 4 syllables
2nd line 4 syllables
3rd line 6 syllables
4th line 10 syllables
5th line 8 syllables
6th line 8 syllables
7th line 6 syllables
8th line 4 syllables
apprentice
the damsel fly
learned silver from
the early morning dew;
that dazzles 'neath the growing heat of day
so much the two appear the same,
on any blade of grass at noon
'twere difficult to say
between the two.
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 05:05 pm: |
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this dragonfly rhymes in the following pattern...a favorite
xxxa
xxxb
xxxxxc
xxxxxxxxxd
xxxxxxxc
xxxxxxxb
xxxxxa
xxxd.
flight
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91106761.html
moon spirit
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Doc_dyr
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Username: Doc_dyr
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 06:50 pm: |
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hi I call this nounce JUST FOR THE LOVE OF IT FORM.
it is 4 stanzas of four lines
then a 5 line stanza that starts with a statement of meaning of poem and followed by first lines of first 4 stanzas. No rhyme needed or syllable count,
here is my example hope you like it
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125538.html
doreen
may life give you it's best, and you live life to your best
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Rainspirit
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Username: Rainspirit
| | Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 06:56 pm: |
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These forms are all great......keep them coming.... |
Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 09:12 am: |
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here is my just for the love of it...
hope it does your nonce well...
it is called
almost unnoticed
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125584.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 11:03 am: |
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another just for the love of it...
this one has a bit of a twist added
it is called
remain all
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125591.html
lovely form by the way doreen...
hope even more people will share their nonce
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 05:48 pm: |
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another thirteen
veils
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91036029.html
moon spirit
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02l
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Username: 02l
| | Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 - 04:47 pm: |
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Hello one, hello all.
It has been a VERY long time since I dropped by. This is a nonce I just created:
On Trials
Vowel Rhyme
Remembered words say,
forgotten yesterday.
Beyond a blue
horizon secrets lay.
Vandalized history,
dreams never meant to be.
Addictions grow
confusion's destiny.
Salvation questions why,
must sacrifice and die.
Hurricane's eye
believing honest lie.
Can reality know,
what tomorrow will show?
Choice suddenly
discovered greatest foe.
Elusive fame pursue,
agressive deja vu.
Surrender gray
promises without glue.
-Two Litre
Five verses, four lines per verse.
Structered line meter of 6 - 6 - 4 - 6.
Rhyme of aaua, eeoe, iiii, ooeo, uuau.
Rhymes are the actual Vowel sounds.
Lines 3 and 4 should be able to be read as one line but not required.
Example: xxxuxxxxxa
all I did was just broke it into two lines.
For those who use this:
xxxxxa
xxxxxa
xxxu
xxxxxa
etc.
Have fun with this, I found it somewhat challenging.
-Tim |
02l
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Username: 02l
| | Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 - 05:18 pm: |
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Something I call Metered Decastitch.
Instructions with verse.
Lines in the Sand
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125930.html
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 - 05:38 pm: |
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oh goody tim!...i will be back with offerings for both of these interesting forms!
thanks for joining the fun!
back soon!
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 - 06:27 pm: |
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here i am...with one for the vowel rhyme form
called
no stars know me
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125935.html
now i'll try the other nonce on for size...
i really liked this vowel form...
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 - 07:04 pm: |
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one for the metered decastitch
stars softly fall
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91125939.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 - 03:30 pm: |
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waltz form in thirteens
hidden healing
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91126245.html
form explained on post
moon spirit
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Dawa
Starlite Member
Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 10:03 am: |
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waltz form in rhymed prime
human endeavor
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91126328.html
form explained on post
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 01:46 pm: |
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hidden wisdom...
a dragonfly that generates a hidden poem by reading the lines as for the waltz form...
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91126366.html
moon spirit
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Doc_dyr
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Username: Doc_dyr
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 05:33 pm: |
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My bro, Lewis Findley has a nounce called the MALTEEZE CROSS Title: a cool autumn morn
URL: http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91126392.html
check it out for him
may life give you it's best, and you live life to your best
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 05:48 pm: |
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sounds like a very zen form...i will have to attempt one!...
thanks for posting it doreen!
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 11:00 am: |
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this is a form i learned on another site...called partenza regresa (sp?)
written in stanzas of four lines each.
can be any length
poet decides meter and rhyme pattern, if any
which are sustained throughout the poem.
the last part of each line is used as the first part of the line following..
this one is called
a sort of madness
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91126438.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 06:29 am: |
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this one is called meander
form explained on post of poem
'like thoughts of you'
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91127769.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 07:25 am: |
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another meander
'heaven won'
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91127775.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 - 06:57 pm: |
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another meander form
'all things pass'
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91127982.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 01:44 pm: |
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a sort of rebirth...
done in bonnet form learned from tinyteddy
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91128543.html
moon spirit
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Dawa
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Username: Dawa
| | Posted on Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 06:15 pm: |
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another meander form
'if entire'
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91128714.html
moon spirit
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Onetinsoldier
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Username: Onetinsoldier
| | Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 11:47 am: |
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Perhaps I have been forgotten but I have certainly not forgotten my touchstone home!
I do hope this post is not terribly late ( but again I was never one first in line ). I have been reading along attempting to keep up when possible and just had a bit of inspiration to scribble something using one of the nonce forms I am known to wander off into at times. This one is a bit new for me and handy when the words fail me with a worthy rhyme scheme.
I call this ~ Indentured Verse ~ you will notice it seems almost Free but not quite I hope. Full details posted at end of poem. I hope you enjoy !
http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91130376.html
OTS |
Tony_parsons
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Username: Tony_parsons
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 05:00 pm: |
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Winter sky URL: http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91141057.html
The metric structure is probably the thing which would make it a possible form, as well as the play with "such a ...." starting the couplet lines, which could be and brief introductory word or phrase.
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