Mind-wrestling with Poets (it's a community thread! Come on in!)

Well, you can't always have pretty. Not in the rough-and-ready, seamy, smutty, begrimed world of the poetry forum.

professor gave a word, hagalaz
then wrinkled his hairy, ol' nose
confusion cast over the class
to find words that rhyme with hagalaz

but the answer was there with a lass
with a grin and curly hair, she rose
sang words that rhymed with hagalaz
with shame, the bald dude froze
(never again did he say, hagalaz)

I'm thinking maybe there's some triolet potential somewhere in there, jaus tail.

I tried to write a troilet. Isn't a troilet,
A
b
a
A
a
b
A
b

where A A means same last words and A a and B b mean rhyme?

Or does A A mean the entire sentence must be same(in the first, fourth and seventh line)?

There's an extra line in the above poem but then the story wouldn't be complete.

It's

A1
B1
A
A1
A
B
A1
B1

So the first two lines and the last two lines are the same. The first line is also repeated in the fourth line.

Trish threw a word out -- "hagalaz" --
searching for a rhyme.
Jaus Tail was stumped and so was Cass.
Trish threw a word out -- "Hagalaz."
No poets seemed up to the task
Perhaps they wouldn't take the time.
Trish threw a word out -- "hagalaz" --
searching for a rhyme.

professor repeated his word, hagalaz
then wrinkled his hairy, ol' nose
confusion cast over the class
professor repeated his word hagalaz

an attempt was made by a lass
but the answer she gave wasn't close
professor repeated his word, hagalaz
then wrinkled his hairy, ol' nose

Now we're swimming in triolets. Trish will be thrilled.

You should read it aloud. To us. It can't be any weirder than what we're doing.

I once wrote a forty page poem. I would have continued but the time I wrote it, during lunch breaks at school, ended. There was a story but like writing a novel, you get sidetracked and can't find the space anymore for that work to go on. It was written in iambic heptameter.

Stew21 said:

if you thought I was odd before now...


oh, and fuck triolets. I can't write triolets.

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A Thirty Minute Triolet For Trish

Triolets are easy to write,
you just need to pick words that rhyme.
They often take less then one night,
triolets are easy! To write
one sit down, alone in good light,
words flow, you'll be done in no time.
Triolets are easy to write—
you just need to pick words that rhyme.

Stew21 said:

What's funny about it is once I decipher the ogham, it spells out something in gaelic and I have to translate that. Wheee!

Eta:
Also, it's painted on an antler.

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Things in here were already quite strange,
and then you posted that thing.
Although perhaps we all needed a change,
things in here were already quite strange,
and now I'm afraid they're completely deranged.
and God knows what other weirdness you'll bring.
Things in here were already quite strange,
and then you posted that thing.

CassandraW said:

You should read it aloud. To us. It can't be any weirder than what we're doing.

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Stew21 said:

so far happiness and strength are the only two that ciphered to English. the others (comfort, love, heart/courage) were Ogham to Gaelic to English.

I'll have to write a poem in ogham and take a pic of it (we don't have an Ogham font, unfortunately) . then I'll give you the cipher!

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Ha! Please do!!!Google translate doesn't really give the best results - still looking forward to it ++ love this thread!

You comforted my heart
with love & courage.
Your láidreacht
is my séan!!

Hm, I think I did my first rhyming quatrain in a foreign language (German.) It's terribad, but I was mocking someone raging about "Feminazis". So I had to break out the Kabarett. Still working out if German has the synecdochical singular. If it doesn't, then the rhyme falls apart (nail in place of (finger)nails.)

Wrote a poem for my uncle for Christmas. Then it's on to transcribing my aunt's poem.

Alas, while I have written poetry about a few of my family members, I cannot show it to any of them. It would either make them cry or make them furious at me.