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Two Canadian geese flew the skies
in root to wherever they desire
A plane occupying their space
Crashed head on in disgrace

The geese flew into their plane
Causing much economic pain
The final decision was made
To turn around the plane
And board another safely

So as geese grow in population
Taking flight to airways
Airplanes will reap devastation
And geese will die in vain

Diabetes in Children

I just don't get it experts say diabetes in kids don't respond to meds or insulin.They admits diabetes is preventable and curable by eating better. Explaining that sugary drinks like sodas should be remove from schools to help our kids. So what do they say will solve the problem? Tax on the sugary culprit that's making these kids sick.

I simply can't see the logic in charging a food tax on soft drinks and foods causing this disease. If there's snakes on the plane that's killing the passengers you don't charge a tax to end the suffering. You remove the snakes.

Wtiting Sonnets

Sonnets is a form of poetry originated in Europe mainly Italy. The most familiar sonnet is the English form. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets as a series and included a few in his plays. Most of Shakespeare sonnets were written in rhyme pattern of abab cdcd efef gg.
This is one I wrote inspired by a walk around Swan Lake Gardens Park.

Sonnet __Is This What Paradise Feel Like

Villanella in Poetry

villanelle

a traditional form poetry called villanelle can be fun to write.
for at least three hundred years villanelles have been around.
villanelles seem to have roots in native songs because of their frequent refrains and complex rhymiue stanza rhyming couplets in the first stanza has a
the second line rhymes with the middle line you added. this is the key to the poem form.
repeating the couplets.

The first thing a villanelle poem need is a pair of rhyming lines which are the heart of your poem's meaning. Here are the two key lines.

Paradise at Swan Gardens Tanka

blossoming

pink|cher|ry trees
white|dog|wood|blos|som|near|by
red|ro|ses|full|bloom
black|crows|search|tables|for|left|overs
and|a|lone|squirrel|wat|ches|on

bird calls

so|ma|ny|bird|calls
dif|fe|rent|spe|cies|very|loud
mat|ing|or|feed|ing
I|know|not|for|cer|tian|ty
all|is|qui|et|at|the|park

a quickie

two|crows|quick|ly|mates
mid|air|dance|fea|ther|fly|ing
make|a|ba|by|crow

hanging moss

Ballads in Poetry

Ballads

ballads are traditional forms of poetry that convey romantic and lurid stories.
they are narrative poems written in the thirteenth. century and are still being written today especially in songs.

ballads take on many forms.
one popular form is the four-line stanza where the first and third lines are written in iambic tetrameter (4 iambs)
the second and fourth lines are written in iambic trimeter (3 iambs)

ballads rhyme scheme is (ABXB) where the third line (X) need not rhyme, but it may rhyme with (A)

Example of ballad :

She Has Fairy Dust in Her Laughter

once upon a time a little girl name Lae Lae was born
she has been dancing singing and spining around like Cinderella since the age of one.

she has been winning pageant since she was three month old and barely two when she won Miss South Carolina Octoberfest Princess.

a happy talkative little sweetheart Lae Lae knows no enemy, partial to none and says what she feels whether good or bad.

Tone In Poetry

what is tone in a poem?

Haiku Eastern - Japanese Poetry

haiku style

Haiku - has 17 syllables in three lines of 5,7,5
The first line has 5 syllables
the second line has 7 syllables
the third line has 5 syllables
An example of haiku in this form is;

my restless spirit
long for Nantucket's water
along her south shore

hore

Eastern - Japanese Culture Tanka Poetry

japanese poetry- tanka style

Tanka- has 31 syllables written in two parts.
The first part is same as Haiku- 5,7,5 and
the second part is 7, 7.

An example of tanka structure;

My restless spirit
Long to see island's north shore
They share her beauty
Sparkling waters with tourists
As I plan Nantucket cruise

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