Happy Saturday
Well we are half way there.......number 15 of 30 poems in 30 days !

Today's guest is Marvellous Marjorie Lacy with a tribute to another poet, the father of a rather famous play-write....

The Poetry Man.

I know a Poetry Man,                                                     

Harry is his name.                                                          

He can write poems quickly,

none of them the same.

He can write funny, serious, political,

to him, it is all the game,

when he really tells the tale!

He can write the rudest poem

that you have ever read,

(when he wrote about

a London brothel!!)

“What did you just say?”

We said,

It was so bad we groaned,

It was so shocking we gasped.

We held our sides as we laughed.

He is the loveliest of men,

Always clean, always polite

But what a delight, Harry,

The Poetry Man, that I know.

A tribute to Harry Godber,

The Poetry Man.

Interesting Facts About Poetry

The haiku is one of the popular forms of shortest poetic writing. It originated in Japan. The interesting thing about haiku is that it has only seventeen syllables – with three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.  The 1st and 3rd lines must have five syllables, and the second line must have seven syllables.

Mahabharata, an Indian epic poem, is the world’s longest poem with around 1.8 million words.

Charles Ghigna poem called ‘I’ is one of the shortest poems in the world.

World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21st each year to appreciate and support poets and poetry around the world. It is an initiative of of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The earliest type of poem was The epic. An epic presents a long narrative (story) of amazing heroic deeds.

Epic of Gilgamesh from Babylon is the oldest written poem. It is said to be around 4,000 years old and it tells the story of a king, Gilgamesh, who was half-man, half-god.

A stanza, traditionally contains 12 lines. A two-line stanza is called a couplet, and a four-line couplet is a quatrain.

Poetry Challenge

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.

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