#anapests

[creatediana]

"Poor Hamster" - a poem in rimas dissolutas written 8/18/2023

[creatediana]

“Marvell, I Suppose” - a poem written 8/10/2022

[creatediana]

“Illogical Music” - a poem written 10/29/2019

[onearthwerebrieflygorgons]

In December we always read certain old stories,

Familiar poems, the tales of the glories

Of Christmases long, long ago

But it seems all these stories have something they share

A linguistic particular usually rare

That somehow evokes winter snow

For all of the poets, from Clarke Moore to Seuss,

Have decided to put to remarkable use

A meter unlike all the rest

Using two unstressed syllables, stressing the third,

Ocassional iambs to highlight a word,

But the bulk of it's all anapests!

[batgovernor]

(Loosely) Anapestic Sonnet: 'A Run'

(Loosely) Anapestic Sonnet: ‘A Run’

Over the island from beaches this side where it’s blowing, it’s only a mile to the side where today it’s flat calm; so over the hill’s potholed tarmac, to tracks of sand going along under southern pine, seagrape, gum elemi, palm; and then between sea-oats and cocoplums over the dunes and down to the beach where the sand is as dusty as powder, then lower across the high tide mark that seaweed…

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