Zen Meditation: Trinet (Letters from the Soul #26)

Eyes closed

Agonized heart

Head feels heavy; ache in body

I sit in the lotus position

Pay attention,

Breathe in 

Breathe out.

Breathe in 

Breathe out

The breathing matters and nothing else

I am conscious and full of life;

Completely blessed,

Divine love

Protecting me.

Anxiety slowly

Ebbs down;

Enveloped in a bubble of tranquility,

All my thoughts jump around it

I smile

I am

Fully free.

© Purba Chakraborty 

30.04.2018

Note: This is a Trinet poem. It is an invented poetry form which has the following specifications:

Line 1: 2 words

Line 2: 2 words

Line 3: 6 words

Line 4: 6 words

Line 5: 2 words

Line 6: 2 words

Line 7: 2 words

Repeat this pattern 2 more times. When centered correctly, it looks like 3 crosses. 

Read Letters from the Soul #25

This is the last post for the #AtoZ2018 and the #BlogchatterA2Z challenge. 

26 days

26 poems

26 poetry forms.

It was a roller-coaster ride experimenting with various forms of poetry every single day in April for my series~ 

"Letters from the soul". 

I hope you enjoyed the series. I am happy that I could complete the challenge successfully.

Yesterday has finally gone! : Quatern (Letters from the soul #25)

Yesterday has finally gone!

And here's a new, roseate dawn

Acting like morphine to your soul

Showing you a new path and goal.

To the pool of tears, don't get drawn

Yesterday has finally gone!

Collect the pieces and rebuilt

your life one more time, bit by bit.

Your cracked heart will rejoin again

The way sun shines after the rain

Yesterday has finally gone!

Do not cling to the spiky thorn.

You will slip again in this road

Tired of carrying grief as load,

But now run like a sporty fawn

Yesterday has finally gone!

© Purba Chakraborty 

28.04.2018

Note: This is a quatern poem. Quatern is a 16 line French poetry form composed of 4 quatrains. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. 

A quatern has eight syllables per line and can follow any rhyme pattern. 

The refrain in this poem is: "Yesterday has finally gone!" which you can spot at different places in each quatrain. The rhyme pattern that I followed is aabb ccdd eeff. 

Read Letters from the soul #24

Xeroxed Moments: Rondolet (Letters from the Soul #24)

Xeroxed moments

Are too rare to capture in life;

Xeroxed moments

Makes one static with no movements

Gliding with the tide feels alive,

Cannot offer newness to thrive

~Xeroxed moments. 

© Purba Chakraborty 

27.04.2018

Note: This is a Rondolet. This is a French poetry form consisting of a single septet (7 line poem) with 2 rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. A is the refrain. A rhymes with a, b with b. The refrain is of 4 syllables and the other lines are of 8 syllables. 

Read Letters from the Soul #23

Water and Love : Sedoka (Letters from the Soul #23)

Mocktails cannot quench
The thirst of a tired tourist;
Only water can do that

Love alone can soothe

Burns and scars of the journey;

It deep cleanses like water.

© Purba Chakraborty 

26.04.2018

Note: This is a Sedoka poem. Sedoka is an unrhymed Japanese poetry form with the syllable count: 5-7-7 and 5-7-7. A Sedoka often addresses the same subject from two perspectives. 

Read Letters from the Soul #22

Violet Sky: Monorhyme (Letters from the Soul #22)

The hour of change is like the violet twilight sky

Explosion of shifting colours that can beautify

your life amid some uncertainty and goodbye;

The ride can seem turbulent and might terrify

But aren't you born to wear your wings and fly

from the cage of monotony that makes you cry?

Dawn and dusk lends you the magic eye

To recognize change as a divine lanternfly

That will illuminate your path as you walk by.

© Purba Chakraborty 

25.04.2018

Note: This is a monorhyme poem. It is a very simple poetry form where all the lines have the same end rhyme. 

Read Letters from the Soul #21

Umbrella of God : Shape Poetry (Letters from the Soul #21)

No

typhoon,thunder,tempest

and hurricane can make you tremble;

They cannot break your spirit when you

stand dauntlessly under the umbrella of God.

The divine power that created you will not only

shield you from the furor and bedlam, but will teach

you

how

to

play

in 

the

rain

and

how 

to 

talk

           to  storm

       the       

© Purba Chakraborty 

24.04.2018

Note:  This is a shape poetry which is a very inventive poetry form. In this type of poetry, the poem takes on the shape of its subject. As my subject is umbrella, my poem looks like an umbrella. 

Read Letters from the Soul #20 here

Timeless ties: Tetractys (Letters from the soul #20)

Some 

people

touch our lives

with such bright hues

they cannot be wiped from our existence.

Their imprints deepen in our soul daily

like roots of trees

cobalt dyes

timeless

ties.

© Purba Chakraborty 

23.04.2018

Note: This is a Double Tetractys. Tetractys is a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consisting of at least 5 lines with the syllable count of 1,2,3,4,10. 

Double Tetractys consists of 10 lines and follows the syllable count of 1,2,3,4,10,10,4,3,2,1. This poetry form is used to express a complete thought within the mentioned syllable count. 

Read Letters from the soul #19

Slave to the Music: Sonnet (Letters from the soul #19)

The moon changes its face every black night

Seasons shift, whispering some old wise words;

I spot the changes in me without fight

Let go people and things just like free birds.

Music is the only thing I hold on 

Like a forlorn person who owns nothing

A melody for each night and season

Lost memories rekindle as I sing. 

Being a slave to the music gives me hope

I feel alive despite losing a lot;

Like letters stacked inside an envelope

Music makes me feel secure about my thoughts.

I can feel all the people I have loved

In the rhythm of songs, I have savored.

© Purba Chakraborty 

21.04.2018

Note: This is an English sonnet also known as Shakespearean sonnet. It is a poem consisting of 14 lines (3 quatrains and 1 couplet). Each line consists of 10 syllables. The rhyme pattern is abab cdcd efef gg. 

Read Letters from the Soul #18 here

Rainbow within her : Senryu (Letters from the soul #18)

Sundry emotions

Autumn and spring coexist;

Rainbow within her.

She frames the rainbow

In the pristine white pages;

Plays the song of life.

Unaware, she is

How many lives the rainbow

Touches and uplifts. 

© Purba Chakraborty 

20.04.2018

Note: This is a Senryu (also known as human haiku). It is a Japanese poetry form that follows the syllable count of 5-7-5 like that of a haiku. While haiku is used for describing nature, Senryu talks about human emotions or human nature. It is a three-line, unrhymed verse that is usually written in the present tense. 

Read Letters from the soul #17

Questions : Quatrain (Letters from the Soul #17)

Amaranthine questions are spread unevenly

In the enigmatic labyrinth of life;

They tease, mock, and laugh breezily

At the weary travelers trying to thrive. 

The sea waves question the azure sky

The earth questions the restless wanderers;

We flutter from flower to flower like a butterfly

The answers lie hidden in Nature's metaphors.

We are seekers, in search of answers

To the questions that lie on our path;

Life is a stage and we are the performers

Reveling in soul-searching on earth. 

© Purba Chakraborty 

19.04.2018

Note: This is a quatrain. A quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines of verse that follows a fixed rhyming pattern such as abab, aabb or abba. I used the rhyming pattern of abab in this quatrain poem. 

Read Letters from the soul #16