Misc. Couplets

Two-line poems and stanzas are collectively called “couplets”. There are various sub-types, like the epigram and the Grunty.

Poems

1. 2025-10-23
   For the Ditch, Flat with Leaves

   A punishment on humankind
   For worming holes through nature's rind.

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   I didn't actually step into a ditch covered with leaves, I just saw (a shallow) one with a low-slung barbed-wire fence on the other side. Anyway, the title is really important to the poem here and is basically an extra line at the start free from the rhyming convention.

2. 2025-10-15

   The helicopter's wing
   Can't see which way it's going.

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   A weird kinda rhyme between a stressed syllable first and an unstressed syllable second. It's kinda unpleasant/ungainly.

3. 2025-09-02

   hear the rain
   through the rain

4. 2025-08-29

   Apparitions with ambitions on the stage—
   A frail crowd of voters underneath.

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   A first try at verbless poetry. Same subject as an englyn-alike written on the same day.

5. 2025-04-07

   A locked and barred gate
   By an open gate.