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Poetry Form: Quatern| d’Verse- Manhood Inherited

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four.



Manhood belongs not to the meek.
All honor is won at a cost.
A reticent life unworthy.
All you value easily lost.

I was once unsure just like you.
Manhood belongs not to the meek.
So, stand tall when facing this world.
Cowards never find what they seek.

My hands are broken, my back is bent,
And my job is most nearly done.
Manhood belongs not to the meek.
Time to fight your battles, my son.

Those gentle eyes and chiseled chin,
Are signs that you’ll reach your own peak.
Kind men guard the common ‘good’, ‘Cuz,
Manhood belongs not to the meek.



https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/25/poetry-form-quatern/

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Quadrille Monday: A Cruel Reflection

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

So, I challenge you to take this familiar object and theme—go beyond cliché and write something unique (in 44 words). Mirror, mirrored, mirroring—use some form of the word mirror in your poem.


Peeking over the wooden rail
Moments after we set sail.
A reflected visage made me wail.
Decades are cruel, I confess.

A mirror image I didn’t know.
Lay atop the surface below.
Seeing myself a mighty blow.
When did I become such a mess?!

44-words

https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/15/quadrille-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/

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d’Verse Prosery- 5/8/23 Drifting Together

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

It’s time to decide if you want to meet the challenge of writing prosery to Charles Simic’s following lines of poetry:

On this day without a date,
On a back street, dusky

The long-wedded couple packed a lunch, a bottle of their favorite wine and set off for the beach. Each took a long look at their place then switched off the lights.
He wheeled her to where the sand softened, then carried her to their awaiting dinghy with their refreshments on his back.
His legs nearly gave out, but he never once let her down. He never would.
She is 89 and he is 86. To think that was a scandalous age difference in their teens and meant nothing now, still made them laugh.
The diagnosis was terminal, and hospice was taking over on the fifteenth.
Beyond the point, squeals of laughter echoed across the bay.
The moon and sun took turns and on this day without a date on a back street, dusky lamplights reflected off of the windows of their still darkened apartment.

144-words

https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/08/dverse-prosery-charles-simic-finding-our-pack/

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Quadrille Monday d’Verse -5/1/23 Life Unwasted

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

New to the Q? Here’s your map of what to do: 
Pen us a poem of exactly 44 words, not counting the title, and containing some form of the word map. Post your poem on your own blog, and link up using Mr. Linky below. Then travel around the blogisphere to read some of the best poets around. The Quadrille is open all week, so be sure to come back to read and write some more! 



The map to our existence
Belongs to each individual.
Choices are abundant.
Guidance is available.
Forgiveness is ubiquitous.
Those who KNOW us, don’t.
Follow ‘the good’ and ‘the fruitful’
purposes and you’ll
Fulfill the glorious meaning
of your life.
Time should not be wasted.

44-words


https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/01/quadrille-175-mapping-out-our-poems/

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Tuesday d’Verse Poetics-Quadrille Triolet- A Window’s Viewpoint

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

I’m sure you’ve guessed today’s prompt is windows.


Afar impressions might lead to regret,
For window viewpoints often deceive.
Appearances pose a common threat,
Afar impressions might lead to regret.

A person’s quality isn’t set,
Best to learn what others believe.
Afar impressions might lead to regret,
For window viewpoints often deceive.

44-words

https://dversepoets.com/2023/04/18/poetics-window-gazing/
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Quadrille Monday-While Truth Whispers

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

Shift is the word to fit into your quadrille this week.



Shifting
Viewpoints rival.
Thoughts building steam,
Roaring toward enlightenment.

One question
Birthing many more,
Intertwining and bursting,
Loud intellectual pursuits take shape.

Our symphony of lore.
Enigmas gasping for viability.
A universe of endless possibilities
Sweeps forward a cacophony of distractions

…while Truth whispers.


44-words


https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/20/quadrille-172/





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Poetics: Poetry of Place and Space – d’Verse Poets Pub

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre


A Prescient Place and Space

A place of universal might
Is a pensive, honest, mind.
A gracious gift and human right,
A place of universal might.

Lies to self-such foolish plight,
No wisdom shall you find.
A place of universal might
Is a pensive, honest, mind.

Creative space in a prescient plan
Our free-thought an age-old claim.
Weighty words belong to ‘man’.
Creative space in a prescient plan.

Cultures cannot thwart nor ban,
Deductions twits cry lame.
Creative space in a prescient plan
Our free-thought an age-old claim.


https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/14/poetics-poetry-of-place-and-space/