#poetry forms

[two-bees-poetry]

twenty years across the sea

[kayriley]

twenty years across the sea

[ofscribesandmen]

Of Scribes and Men - Road to 10,000 Poems

This is the master index of the ongoing Road to 10,000 Poems project, with the goal of reaching 10,000 poems by November 2026.

The index is continuously updated as each set of 1,000 poems is completed, organized into volumes and preserved as a living archive of the work as it develops over time.

Some poems will appear without titles. If a line or piece speaks to you, you are welcome to suggest one. Those that fit may be adopted as the project continues, with credit given to the contributor.

First 1,000 Poems

Volume 1 - The Beginning

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 5

Volume 6

Volume 7

Volume 8

Volume 9 - The First Gauntlet

Volume 10 - Home Turf

Second 1,000 Poems

Volume 11

Volume 12

Volume 13

Volume 14

Volume 15

Volume 16

Volume 17

Volume 18

Volume 19 - The Second Gauntlet

Volume 20 - The Japanese Forms

Third 1,000 Poems

Volume 21

Volume 22

Volume 23

Volume 24

Volume 25

Volume 26

Volume 27

Volume 28

Volume 29

Volume 30 - 100 Sijo

Fourth 1,000 Poems

Volume 31

Volume 32

Volume 33

Volume 34

Volume 35

Volume 36

Volume 37

Volume 38

Volume 39

Volume 40 - 100 Villanelles

Fifth 1,000 Poems

Volume 41

Volume 42

Volume 43

Volume 44

Volume 45

Volume 46

Volume 47

Volume 48

Volume 49

Volume 50 - 100 Sestinas (Rhymed)

[lingering-zephyr]

the hostility of motherhood is paradoxical  because your mother will nurture you with her blood then lacerate the hideous segments she couldn’t remove from herself  even if that means leaving dents and voids in your body.

[glitter-bomb-disaster]

wait you don't have those

to my absolute horror and delight i realized that the phenomenon of the so called "small-pie-poems" (i will make sense of this in a bit) is specific to the russian language! so strap in for a quick explanation of this little wonder

they are called "pirozhki," which is literally "small pies," a popular eastern european baked good with filling. pirozhki poems are just like that: tiny and amusing. they tend to contain some kind of joke or ironic observation

from the formal standpoint, pirozhok consists of four lines and is written in iambic meter, usually with little to no rhyme or any kind of punctuation. the last line can be cut shorter to add to the comedic effect or have different foot

under the cut there are some examples of pirozhki from my third year of uni when my translation prof made us translate a bunch of them for our finals, enjoy

a quiet place under a sofa

that's where left socks come to meet

they all discuss the right ones there

and also politics, a bit

when God created humans, He

had to add labor for a chimp

but cats were left untouched, for cats

turned out perfect from the start

and my favorite one

a seal lies on the beach all happy

contented fat and so sanguine

although I'm not a seal be sure

I'm also capable of this

i gotta add that this task contained several pirozhki with damn literature references and word play and it was an absolutely sadistic thing to give to us. i enjoyed every minute of it

[deactivated-bc-evil-ppl]

here's my entry to @nosebleedclub prompt "clamshell"

i had multiple ideas on where to go with this, but @aurae-rori helped me choose on going with a classic interpretation. i thought since i was going with the classic idea, i'd reference one of the most well-known paintings that shows a clamshell. so here's my go at it! to wrap it up in classics, i decided on a Shakespearean Sonnet form for this.

[coffeeandthoughtspoetry]

𝖿𝗂𝖾𝗅𝖽 𝗈𝖿 𝖻𝗅𝗎𝖾𝖻𝖾𝗅𝗅𝗌