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A terzanelle poem is a form of poetry (combination of the villanelle and the terza rima) made up of 19 lines, five triplets, and a quatrain at the end, but there is more to a terzanelle. What is terzanelle in poetry (complete definition)?
Spring is born
Spring rolls into the valleys and hills
Leaving mountains with dots of white snow
The warm breeze chases away the chills
Robin bounce along to cawing crow
It's a wildlife dance to welcome spring
Leaving mountains with dots of white...
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Categories:
nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Terzanelle
In Death MIXED
1. If you could look into your future and choose one day to see what would happen, what day would that be and why...
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When death calls my name, as I walk my last mile,
Will the...
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Categories:
death, eulogy, memory,
Form: Terzanelle
Rambling
When time echoes the promise of a rambling soul, one who knows that the past never can be left, because it is there that solace leaves its caress, its breath ever rising in the presence...
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Categories:
age, confusion, dream, emotions,
Form: Terzanelle
Whispers of Light
"The love we give away is the only love we keep." — Elbert Hubbard.
In breathless dreams, my passions were growing,
fanciful feelings, wordlessly screaming,
when your eyes met mine, blessings were flowing.
sure that your smile would bring...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, love, marriage,
Form: Terzanelle
Rise And Fallinspired by The Platters song, ‘Ebb Tide’
Rise And Fall
Salty tears ebbing away on moon’s tide
as whispered love echoes on ocean waves
across caramel sands where hearts reside.
Coves of sheltered inlets harbour veiled caves
that glistens with laced,...
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Categories:
beach, romance, sea,
Form: Terzanelle
Passing Noonday Flux
When sky born laughter a strained ode construed,
soaks up the pale rust yellow foliage,
visual feast pursuit awhile imbued,
An early morning spell I might engage,
while breathing in the faraway sea chill,
one awe struck heart...
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, color, emotions,
Form: Terzanelle
Faith in Nativity
Categories:
birthday, christian, christmas, god,
Form: Terzanelle
GOD'S ONLY BEGOTTEN SONGOD’S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
Jesus is God’s “Only Begotten” son,
“sons of the true God”, Gen. 6:2, verse shows God had other sons … not just one.
Sometime between March and April, Christ died,
most know on Nisan 14th, this...
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Categories:
birth, birthday, christian, christmas,
Form: Terzanelle
Sans thought who are weKnow that all manifestation is thought
Life’s but an illusion, a lucid dream
We, as entity that seek, exist not
Let’s look at desires, that from our heart stream
Sans desire, we’re in an inky black void
Life’s but an...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Terzanelle
My True PassionFinding peace in the things I do
So many things not enough time
Aspirations are what I view
Like a mountaineer ready to climb
Motivated by the things my mind sees
moving quickly yet stop on a dime
My workshop like...
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Categories:
creation, dream, happiness,
Form: Terzanelle
BIRDS GATHER ON ELECTRIC LINES KEEPING THEMSELVES WARM Terzanelle"BIRDS GATHER ON ELECTRIC LINES
KEEPING THEMSELVES WARM Terzanelle "
Those the little birds warming themselves warmth
on standing electrical and telephone lines
together side by side one by one doth---
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The bird’s stance summer breathless leaves
adjoining, aligned, snuggle...
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Categories:
analogy, bird, caregiving, engagement,
Form: Terzanelle
False senseI've got a feeling the devil made you mine.
The sand grazes my skin,
gives me cuts in two straight lines.
Pull limbs, twist sockets to dislocate,
beaten body filled with water
to drown would be escape.
Foam falls down...
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Categories:
allegory, bible, conflict, desire,
Form: Terzanelle
God Only SonJohn 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Placed Eighth in:
God`s Only Son Poetry Contest
Sponsored by...
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Categories:
birthday, christian, christmas, god,
Form: Terzanelle
God's only sonCharred in solace of your embrace
reminiscences engrossed as imprint
harboured in placards of your grace
A birth, a thousand with no squint
in winter's pure pour of snow
reminiscences engrossed as imprint
Giggling with nights glow
in waxes and treelights
in winter's...
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Categories:
christmas, december, deep, devotion,
Form: Terzanelle
Reconciled 2
RECONCILED
I’ve stumbled in my walk with You
Grumbled when I’ve talked to You,
Ambled steps away from You,
Humbled, now I pray to You.
Jesus!
I don’t deserve Your grace!
Hard to look upon Your face,
Knowing what You’ve done to...
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Categories:
jesus, mother, religious,
Form: Terzanelle
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