new poetry form
By jakesmum
@jakesmum (154)
Australia
March 31, 2008 1:54am CST
Hi, I've been writing poetry for many years now - my first poem that got me praise, was written in 1977 when I was about 14 years old. I was supposed to be writing something for a History project, and I wrote a little poem on the subject. My teacher and my mother praised it and it started me thinking I might be a poet. Many years passed, boys to fall in and out of love with, then marriage. My child and working with school kids rekindled my love of poetry, and I haven't looked back since. Most of my good friends are poets, or at least creative people.
Anyway, I was helping a teacher with a class of 12 and 13 years olds, and I came up with a new poetry form to appeal to the kids who said 'I can't write a poem!'
It's not tricksy, all they have to be able to do is to count syllables - if they can put words down and count syllables, they can write a 'Cordonostic Poem'.
If you want to know more, Google Cordonostic Poem and read all about it! Have a read of some of my Cordonostic Poems, and have a try at it yourself!
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@paid2write (5201)
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31 Mar 08
I had a look at it and I think it is a very good exercise that will encourage better poetry writing. I think many people find it difficult to get into the idea of different forms of poetry and for you to invent a new form is something of an achievement, especially one so simple to follow.
@jakesmum (154)
• Australia
31 Mar 08
Thanks for your comments. I'm involved in a poetry group based in country South Australia. To many of our members it's not a poem if it doesn't rhyme. I have nothing against rhyming verse, but I hate rhymes for the sake of rhymes, with not though of rhythm. Cordonostic poems certainly don't neet to ryhme. I've had lots of fun converting earlier poems on mine in other syles into cordonostic poems (and back again sometimes when it doesn't work that way).
I've often found that the easy 'first up' way of writing something is too obvious, and if I can turn things upside down and inside out I can cover interesting paths and go in interesting directions.
