Maglia Weaver Twill : Writing

Kyrielle

Kyrielle

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


The kyrielle is a French four-line stanza poem—with 8 syllables per line—that has a refrain in the fourth line. Often, there is a rhyme s..
A Lune: the American haiku

A Lune: the American haiku

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


5-3-5 syllable lines, ascribed to Robert Kelly—a result of his frustration with the English haiku; variant ascribed to jack collom 3-5-3
What's Going On?

What's Going On?

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


Modified Cascade poem. I cannot repeat the first words for the overarching rule I use to threaten my own project sillily together. ABC abA cdB edC
Cascade Poem

Cascade Poem

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


The cascade poem was a form invented by Udit Bhatia. For the cascade poem, a poet takes each line from the first stanza of a poem and makes those the..
Blitz poem

Blitz poem

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


50 lines, wordy couplets, going last word of 2nd line become 1st word of 3-4, last word of 4 become first word of 5-6, and so on
Windowsill

Windowsill

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


KEY TS = Z davanzale-windowsill
Ballade (forme fixe)

Ballade (forme fixe)

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


ababbcbC ababbcbC ababbcbC bcbC
What is right

What is right

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


I cannot have him, still the hoping takes me somewhere, lifts me. I will embrace this sorry type and sorrowfully admit that he is just someone. ..
  Alphabet Poem: Argument Oscurita

Alphabet Poem: Argument Oscurita

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


“Abecedarians: They rejected every other means of instruction, and claimed that to be saved one must even be ignorant of the first letters of th..
The Oracle at Delphi (or What does this point mean?)

The Oracle at Delphi (or What does this point mean..

A Poem by Maglia Weaver Twill


The speaker of the poem becomes less mature; a collage of mixed up phrases and thoughts jammed into the lines, for a distant approach to deludere, del..