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@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:42 AM

Stornello

The Stornello is an Italian form
Eleven syllables inline clear and shorn
but the rhyming scheme is an aaa storm.

Give it a good go for the tercet largess
I’m sure you’ll like it, try take the silly test
“Stornello” you say, happiness fills your chest.

#Stoenello #poem #ArsPoetica

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:34 AM

Tricube

The tricube
looks easy
here’s the thing

Three time three
line, verse, beat
all on show

Now you know
what to do
Tricube me!!

#tricube #poem #ArsPoetica

@jenthorne.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:26 PM

Thank you to everyone who took part in my #ArsPoetica #PoetsOfDoom challenge this week. Honestly they were all brilliant, taught me so much, and we even witnessed the launch of a new form 💚

Special thanks to top contributor @daveashleypoet.bsky.social who is also your host for the next week 🖤

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:14 PM

#Landay #Poem #PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 1:05 PM

#PoeticDevices #poem #PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica

@pvcannon.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:36 PM

For #PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica

My piece, a slightly revised version of one I wrote earlier in the year.

With much thanks to the Doom Team:
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:10 PM

this is an old one but its about writing #FreeVerse

#arspoetica #poem #PoetsOfDoom

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:02 PM

five, three and then five
syllables
like a small haiku.

#Lune #AmericanHaiku #PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica

www.writersdigest.com/write-better...

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:45 AM

#PoetsOfDoom #ItalianOctave #Poem #ArsPoetica

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:15 PM

Novem

A tercet plain
remains in sight
but to explain

Each line expounds
two mono sounds
a double! Zounds!

Absurd each line
rhyming word lies
really be heard.

#novem #ArsPoetica #PoetsOfDoom

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 11:36 AM

Dodoitsu, a weird one
three lines of seven beat counts
give a sumptuous magic
for the last five beats

#Doditsu #ArsPoetica #PoetsOfDoom

@irk-irwell.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:00 AM

#PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica #poetry

@suzydobie.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 9:21 PM

This one's for Claudia 😸

#PoetsOfDoom
#ArsPoetica
#villanelle

Thanks, Jen and the Doomies! 😘
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:06 PM

Cinquain

Five lines you say!
And not a tanka but kinda
with no limit, no bloody limit
of line length, or tricksy syllable
counts! Well, fuck me!

#PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica #cinquain #poem

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:59 PM

ACROSTIC!!

Am I to believe
Cool words drifting down
Right there on the page!!
Oh!! I SEE!!!
Spelling down, first letter
The word is actually there!!
In the poem all the time
Crikey!!

#PoetsOfDoom #Acrostic #ArsPoetica

@fleurdu.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:36 PM

#PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica #poetry
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social

Ars Poetica

Oh, that I would hear, with the
ears of Soul, what is trying to
be said, (again) instead of with
these ears of mud. That, with
cooling breath, I curate collaged
assemblages, and incubate them
until they become themselves
That I be granted, the grace to
build with my hands, bespoke
load bearing armature, capable
of carrying, that which needs
saying, in ways that it can be
heard. If need be, that I toil
and never toil for toils sake
Let me tread gently. For it to
be vital, help me to get out of
its way. Let me remember
that I am not it, it is not me
Oh Love, let me love it out
into the world, and then, have
me sleep this night, to dream
that I am there, albeit briefly

—Fleur du P

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 9:06 AM

#TerzaRima #PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica #Poem

@ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:17 AM

What can I say, I do what I want.

#PoetsOfDoom #ArsPoetica #freeverse #poetry
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social

with free verse
I can write
any way I want
not worrying about
meter or rhyme
or trying to rework a line
to make it squeeze in
realizing it won't,
and screaming at it -
who needs that?
I just don't care
what can I say
I just want it
how I want it
and you can have it too
for the low low price
of forgetting all the rules

@jenthorne.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 9:47 PM

Right, my next #PoetsOfDoom
#ArsPoetica is a #sonnet
For @suzydobie.bsky.social
and the masters of the form
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social and
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

(Be gentle with me people - I am not a sonnet kinda girl!)

Bloody Sonnets

Upon the page, write one measured line,
To frame your thoughts within a stately song.
Each foot must march in rhythm's strict design,
While words persuade the verse to move along.

A rhyme appears and calls out to its mate,
Though it can hide beyond the poet's sight.
Chase the right sound like a rabbit always late,
Then squeeze its echo till the fit is right.

The quatrains build a house of ordered parts,
Where sense and rhythm settle into place.
Yet every line demands its share of arts,
And every word must earn its rightful space.

At last the fourteen lines consent to sing,
Though you have bled for every little thing.