Images in Blue
by
Kim Nelson
Sue Judd at dVerse Poets Pub offered the Englyn for this week’s Form For All.
The Englyn is an ancient type of Celtic poetry, used traditionally to praise or mock someone well-known. Because of its brevity, it distills ideas or emotions in a concise verse.
An Englyn can be written is one of eight forms. The following poems are illustrative of two of those forms. To read more about the Englyn, check out this Wiki page.
Light Disappears
Blazing across social tiers
Love, you inspire, allay fears
Alas! Gone! Light disappears.
(*3 seven-syllable lines, all rhyming)
∞
Death of A Star
With light’s intensity you blazed the path.
Brilliance, Love, your mien described.
Nova! Ether. You arrived.
(*One 10-syllable line ending in rhyme A, followed by two 7-syllable lines ending in rhyme B)
∞
I like both of these, though I think the metaphor in the first is the more beautiful.
nicely done to form….i really like them both…the first, love will def bring the light and when gone can certainly leave us in the dark as well for a while til we find it once more…and i like stargazing as well so the second one is cool to me….
I enjoyed both of these, Kim. The second one says to me that when something dies, another something is reborn. Such is life’s cycle, I think. (Or sometimes just hope!)
Both are wonderful, but I especially like the first one… and your artwork is amazing (as always).
I favor the first one as well. Struggled for hours with a third, then decided it wasn’t meant to emerge. Done.
Very pretty poems, both of them. The first has a nice kind of sigh to it, but they both work very well. k.
Love the subject matter. Both are excellent to form. I can see the assonance in path and brilliance on the “a” word as it should rhyme or “consonate” and it does, but subtly to my ear; nevertheless the sounds in both englynion are quite beautiful.
Again, love the art — would love a little blurb on the creation and ideas behind each piece as notes when you post.
Thanks, Sabio. I could do that… perhaps as a footnote.
Both lovely metaphysical poems.
Words blend with and build on the art
Beautiful Kim, for me, especially the first one!
This is beautiful poetry. I particularly like the second Englyn in it’s descriptive senses .. it comes to life. You have mastered this form. Pam
I liked both the poems and the visual is beautiful…ties in very well with the poems…thanks for your kind words