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Invented Poetry Forms:

  bullet   The 7/5 Trochee
  bullet   A L'Arora
  bullet   Alliterisen
  bullet   The Alouette
  bullet   The Blitz Poem
  bullet   The Brevette
  bullet   Cascade
  bullet   Christ-in-a-Rhyme
  bullet   CinqTroisDecaLa
  bullet   Clarity Pyramid
  bullet   Constanza
  bullet   Con-Verse
  bullet   The Compound Word Verse
  bullet   Decuain
  bullet   Diatelle
  bullet   Duo-rhyme
  bullet   Epulaeryu
  bullet   Essence
  bullet   The Florette
  bullet   The Florette #2
  bullet   Grá Reformata
  bullet   Jeffreys Sonnet
  bullet   Joseph's Star
  bullet   Harrisham Rhyme
  bullet   HexSonnetta
  bullet   Inverted Refrain
  bullet   LaCharta
  bullet   LaJemme
  bullet   La'libertas
  bullet   Lannet
  bullet   La'ritmo
  bullet   La’Tuin
  bullet   Lauranelle
  bullet   Lento
  bullet   Licentia Rhyme Form
  bullet   Line Messaging
  bullet   Loop Poetry
  bullet   Mini-monoverse
  bullet   Memento
  bullet   The Mirror Sestet
  bullet   Mirrored Refrain
  bullet   Monchielle
  bullet   Monotetra
  bullet   Musette
  bullet   Nove Otto
  bullet   Octameter
  bullet   Octain Refrain
  bullet   Octelle
  bullet   Oddquain
  bullet   Paradelle
  bullet   Parallelogram de Crystalline
  bullet   The Pictorial
  bullet   Pleiades
  bullet   Puente
  bullet   Quadrilew
  bullet   RemyLa Rhyme Form
  bullet   Rictameter
  bullet   Shadow Sonnet
  bullet   Spirit’s Vessel
  bullet   Staccato
  bullet   Swap Quatrain
  bullet   Synchronicity
  bullet   The Tableau
  bullet   Tri-fall
  bullet   Trijan Refrain
  bullet   Trilonnet
  bullet   Trinet
  bullet   Triquain
  bullet   Triquatrain
  bullet   Triquint
  bullet   Trois-par-Huit
  bullet   Trolaan
  bullet   Vers Beaucoup
  bullet   Villonnet
  bullet   Wrapped Refrain
  bullet   Wrapped Refrain #2
  bullet   ZaniLa Rhyme
 

Villonnet

The Villonnet was created by D. Allen Jenkins.

A Villonnet is a hybrid of the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature of the villanelle. The final stanza replaces the sonnet couplet with a typical villanelle tercet.


Example #1:
The Master Card

In simple terms, simplicity is hard 
to master when sophistication reigns; 
to gain your ease amid the pressures bought 
on time revolving in a plastic card.

But leave the task to some aspiring bard 
who doesn’t have the wits to fear the chore 
of using rhymes and metered lines to say 
in simple terms, simplicity is hard.

The pace by which we live is a canard, 
and faster does not always better make; 
and lateness sometimes comes from trying to stay
on time revolving in a plastic card. 

In simple terms, simplicity is hard
when punching simple numbers places life 
on time revolving in a plastic card.

Copyright © 2005 D. Allen Jenkins

Example #2:
American Express(ion of faith)

I often use American Express—
especially if ordering Chinese, 
and I am in a hurry to check out;
convenience is a god that I confess

I’ll call on when I’m under high duress.
So many things within my day are slow 
to come about, and so to bring some haste,
I often use American Express

which expedites the matter, more or less,
to meet my expectations and desires.
And thus, I must again to you confirm
convenience is a god that I confess.

I often use American Express
and will affirm this article of faith:
Convenience is a god- that I confess.

Copyright © 2005 D. Allen Jenkins

Example #3:
1274554721 (In Memorial)

In simple terms, simplicity is hard 
to master when sophistication reigns; 
to gain your ease amid the pressures bought 
I have no sense of what this day must mean
for those who long ago endured the pain
of tyranny, and yet survived to tell
this younger generation of the scenes

their youthful minds have never known, or seen,
or yet conceived, except through celluloid
of black and white; my heart can only sigh—
I have no sense of what this day must mean.

Remember this we must! lest we be weaned 
from history’s sour milk, and start to feign 
the lie as truth. Do not forsake to teach
this younger generation of the scenes. 

I have no sense of what this day must mean
to those whose fleshy numbers still remind
this younger generation of the scenes.

Copyright © 2005 D. Allen Jenkins

Example #4:
View from the Passenger Side

My heart is pounding faster with each mile.  
Adrenaline is flowing furiously, 
exampled by the sweat now on my brow— 
yet I am forced to don this peaceful smile. 
 
This task of teaching one to drive's a trial,  
augmented by the angst of pain and death; 
we now approach the freeway entrance ramp— 
my heart is pounding faster with each mile. 
 
His day of birth was but a little while  
ago; but here he’s standing, nearly man, 
but still a boy, requesting for the keys— 
yet I am forced to don this peaceful smile. 
 
My heart is pounding faster with each mile, 
as this, my son, drives toward the future’s light 
yet I am forced to don this peaceful smile. 

Copyright © 2005 D. Allen Jenkins


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