Midnight
Rest a restless body upon a window ledge,
identical stars shine communally – one rare shooting star for us to pledge. Through moisture window pains gaze high up at a universe,
moonlight reflected by aluminum-bodied cars for its light to disperse.
Porch lights channeling, centering to a point in the distance,
pathways catching light – curbs causing shadows at night less existent.
Ice crystals frigid from decadent airs clings to a street light,
a street in a neighborhood silent at midnight.
© Andrew Lockley 2008
this is a great poem!!!!!
and i like all your other poems as well!
excellent job!
Its a AWSOME POEM!!!!
….^-^…..LOVE IT!!!!
Ur other poems are really neat!!!
Siriously ull be a geat poet if u keep up this great job!!!! =3
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the other poems are really awsome…^-^
my fav is love plaesure…=3 its so romantic…^-^
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I consider language as a form of music, and I consider music as a form of language, so many musical terms apply to poetry. It’s a different experience nowadays because most of the time we encounter poems that are in print, rather than hearing them. Obviously poetry starts as an oral experience, but we’ve gotten accustomed to reading silently, and we carry that over to poetry, which is a big mistake.* Pitch and meter often get overlooked when a poem is read silently.
METER is the poetic equivalent of rhythm. Meter means “measure” and is a measurement of time, which is exactly what a parking meter does. Different languages and different times have used a variety of standards for this measurement. In Modern English we use accent or stress within each unit of measurement. (Other languages have used number of syllables in each line, or the actual length of time needed to speak the syllable. The basic unit of measurement for us is the foot. (Not the one that has five toes.) A foot consists of two or more syllables. There may be definitions of feet of five or more syllables, but I think that is academic bullshit, since the brain automatically hears in units of 1,2, or 3. I once saw a list of 4 syllable feet, I think it’s totally useless. Which is to say the only ones you need to know are those of 2 and 3 syllables (disyllables and trisyllables are the technical terms). They are classified according to accent. Some say long and short, others stressed and unstressed – same thing – often the symbols used in scansion( analysis of meter) are x and / for long and short There are other methods also. Here’s a list:
TWO SYLLABLES
Dibrach = xx
Iamb = x/
Trochee = /x
Spondee = //
THREE SYLLABLES
Tribrach = xxx
Dactyl = /xx
Amphibrach = x/x
Anapest = xx/
There’s one for x// which I learned in the ’60’s and have not used since. Isuppose you could find it on the web, along with those of 4+ syllables.
I hope that this is what you were looking for, and I thank you for the opportunity to refresh my memory. If you wish to contact me directly that would be OK.
Reply to JEFF LOURIE:
Thank you for spending time to write that up, im still learning poetry as i write more so thanks for the extra help