Three Poems

Hello friends,

Enjoy a one-off Friday post, for the long weekend!

Three poems this time, and a note to say that Penteract Press currently has 30% off all books, using the code SPRING24 at checkout. This, of course, includes my latest “big book”, THE ROBOTS OF BABYLON. Offer ends Tuesday 2nd April.

Several months ago, I posted a newsletter featuring three aelinscapes. An aelinscape is a metered poem in which two or more formal poems share meterical feet. The form (or group of forms) first appeared in my collection SLATE PETALS.

Here are three more!

WINE AND WORDS presents a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic trimeter. If only the first two feet of each line are read, it becomes a Spenserian Sonnet in iambic dimeter. If only the first foot of each line is read, it becomes a Petrarchan sonnet in iambic monometer.

KNIT INK presents two rime royals, one in iambic tetrameter; the other in iambic trimeter. The poems are connected by a Shakespearean sonnet, in monometer, each line of which makes up a metrical foot in one of the rime royals:

THE MOON AND ITS TIDES presents a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter, which can be split into two smaller sonnets, one in trimeter (black) and the other in dimeter (blue). The blue dimeter sonnet is Petrarchan and also a palindrome: