• Anthologies
  • Featured Poets & Collections
    • Flight of Fancy
    • Hungry Eyes
    • Public Domain Poetry
    • Poets in Profile
    • Poets at Peace
  • Resources
    • Poetry Forms & Specs
    • Sonnet Forms & Specs
  • Contact
Poets Collective Multisite Network
Poets Collective Multisite Network
Skip to content
  • Anthologies
  • Featured Poets & Collections
    • Flight of Fancy
    • Hungry Eyes
    • Public Domain Poetry
    • Poets in Profile
    • Poets at Peace
  • Resources
    • Poetry Forms & Specs
    • Sonnet Forms & Specs
  • Contact
Category: Fixed Form
Home Archive for category "Fixed Form"

Category: Fixed Form

The Old Man in the Mist
. Pensive / .Lonesome / Fixed Form / Life / Loss / Love / Metrical / Sentiment

The Old Man in the Mist

A lonely path through clouded memories his fading mind once sharp and clear, now lost in hazy fusion, time betrayed by hours no longer counted in his universe. Yet hesitantly …

 aging / dementia / Helen White
Continue reading ... "The Old Man in the Mist"
Mud and Honey
. Philosophical / Fixed Form / Love / Metrical / Rhyme / Sentiment

Mud and Honey

Her sentimental spirit washes freewhen clay and sediment come sliding down,so if she cries, a man is bound to seea river in her eyes but twice as brown.I hold her …

 authenticity / empowerment / Kaleb Pier / sonnet / woman
Continue reading ... "Mud and Honey"
The New Alchemy
. Contemplative / . Philosophical / Change / Fixed Form / History / Life / Metrical / Rhyme

The New Alchemy

  Might we again relearn what once was known To forebears long ago but somehow lost By later generations–scorned and tossed Aside like fads or childish play outgrown? How can …

 alchemy / ancient wisdom / common sense / Gavin Quinn / lost knowledge / social unrest / sonnet
Continue reading ... "The New Alchemy"
Dust of Days
. Pensive / Fixed Form / Loss / Metrical / Rhyme

Dust of Days

At times I pause to turn a backward glance Though doing so illuminates the lie; I long to see once more the mustang prance Yet sorrow fogs the desert to …

 change / history / Native American / sonnet / William Keller
Continue reading ... "Dust of Days"
Majestic Mountains
. Happy / Fixed Form / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme

Majestic Mountains

Majestic mountains are my legacy! They rise triumphant to the east, and call Me from the valley floor, reminding me There comes a time to leave this urban sprawl. Secluded …

 beauty / legacy / Mark Vincent / mountains / seclusion / valleys
Continue reading ... "Majestic Mountains"

Posts navigation

1 2 3 4

“To have great poetry, there must be great audiences.”

– Walt Whitman

Browse by Genre

All Free Verse
or
All Rhyme/Metrical

About Us

Poets Collective is a noncommercial effort to encourage and promote poetry writing that can stand the test of time and reading that can assure its will to live. The site is family-friendly (up to PG-rated) and geared for enjoyment by readers from all walks of life.

Most Used Tags

abandoned (5) acceptance (5) aging (7) awareness (5) beauty (6) change (9) death (12) Eric Linden (9) freedom (5) Glenn Meisenheimer (6) gratitude (5) home (5) imagination (8) irony (5) joy (7) Joy A. Burki-Watson (7) Kaleb Pier (5) Kenneth Henry (6) Lawrence Eberhart (6) light (6) love (15) Mark Vincent (13) Mary Boren (7) Maureen Clifford (5) memories (21) metaphor (7) morning (5) mystery (9) Patricia Curtis (10) Peter Smallwood (5) Rebecca Kerr (5) renewal (5) romance (6) Sharon Anderson (6) silence (5) sonnet (39) storm (8) Susan Eckenrode (5) Susanne Donoghue (13) Thomas Horton (8) time (6) unity (5) war (5) William Keller (13) WW Schwim (6)
Back to Top