Poetry from the Heart

By DenHagan

This book contains over twenty-eight different types of poetry, with explanations and examples of each type. Many of my poems are romantic, such as My Beloved, Ode to Melissa, To Love a Woman, My Hearts Desire, Love, and My Love. While others are inspirational, like Forgiveness, Hope, The Seven Virtues, Empathy, and Kindness. Still others are philosophical in nature, such as my poems Living, True Freedom, Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings, and The State of the Economy. My kyrielle poem Life could be said to be both inspirational and philosophical. Some of my poems are educational, like The Benefits of Reading, which extols the virtues of reading, and To Be Young Again, which talks about nutrition and exercise.

Some are family-oriented poems, such as my poem Little Bit, which I wrote for my niece Kristin, or Camping with Younger Brother, which I wrote for my brother Craig, or Little Child, which I wrote for all the little ones in the world. Other poems are devoted to naturelike my Froggy, Turtle, Tornado, and Mother Nature poemsor to mankind in general, such as Earth on Which We Live and True Happiness. And others were written with some fun in mind, like the poem Nude I wrote in response to an online contest to rhyme the last word in each line with the word nude. (Birthday Lesson is another fun poem like this.) I also did a series of seven poems on each of the seven deadly sins, where I used archaic language to spoof each of these sins, which unfortunately often plague mankind. I truly hope you will enjoy reading the poems contained in this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493149551

DenHagan

I am a veteran of the United States Air Force, who recently graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a minor in Finance. I have written poetry during various periods in my life. And in the spring and summer of 2011--due to certain experiences I had while at college and people I met, and enhanced further by an online poetry class I took--I became inspired to write poetry once again. I completed over 50 poems, during this time. After finishing my senior year at college in the summer of 2012, I updated many of these poems, and wrote many additional poems. I have included 70 of my poems in this book. I am a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and make my living from my writing and working in the Customer Service field. I enjoy reading and writing poetry and short stories in my spare time.

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Copyright © 2013 by DenHagan.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter One: Comes the Quatrains

Camping with Younger Brother

The Seven Virtues

Humility

Nude

Birthday Lesson

My Beloved

Turtle

Froggy

Pass This Way Again

Ode to Melissa

Chapter Two: Stroll Out the Sonnets (Italian, English, and Spenserian)

Sneaking Out of the House

Maynard the Duck

My Love

Missed Opportunities

Little Bit

A Sonnet to All Poets and Writers

Grateful in This Modern Age

The Benefits of Reading

Chapter Three: Roll Out the Rondeaus, Rondels, and Rondelets

America

To Be Young Again

To Love a Woman

Infidelity: A Betrayal of Love and Friendship

It Makes Me Sad

The Sun in Sky

Chapter Four: The Kyrielle Poem

Love

Life

Love Will Make You Happy

Travel

Chapter 5: The Quatern and the Retourne

Imagination

Expectations

My Heart’s Desire

My Troubled Heart

Chapter 6: The Pantoum and the Villanelle

A Dreamer’s Paradise

When You’re Not Here

Living on the Edge

I Wonder Where You Are Today

Chapter Seven: The Decuains

Forgiveness

Hope

Kindness

Temperance

Patience

Chapter Eight: The Rispettos

Envy

Gluttony

Greed

Anger

Lust

Pride

Sloth

Mourning

Chapter Nine: Trot Out the Triolets

Good-bye

Laughter

Childhood Days

Empathy

Compassion

Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings?

The State of the Economy

Swimming in the Ocean

Chapter Ten: The Nonet and the Naani

True Happiness

True Freedom

Chapter Eleven: The Acrostic and the ABC Poem

Melissa

Charity

Chapter Twelve: The Shadorma and the Whitney

Mother Nature

Little Child

Womanhood

Chapter Thirteen: The Cinquain and the Tanka

Living

Earth on Which We Live (Tanka Poem)

Chapter Fourteen: Short Poem Styles (Haiku, Senryu, and 5-7-5 Poem)

Fishing Success (Haiku)

Tornado (3-5-3 Haiku)

Customer Has No Time (Senryu)

The Gift of Love (5-7-5 Poem)

PREFACE

This book contains over twenty-eight different types of poetry, with explanations and examples of each type. Many of my poems are romantic, such as My Beloved, Ode to Melissa, To Love a Woman, My Heart’s Desire, Love, and My Love. While others are inspirational, like Forgiveness, Hope, The Seven Virtues, Empathy, and Kindness. Still others are philosophical in nature, such as my poems Living, True Freedom, Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings, and The State of the Economy. My kyrielle poem Life could be said to be both inspirational and philosophical. Some of my poems are educational, like The Benefits of Reading, which extols the virtues of reading, and To Be Young Again, which talks about nutrition and exercise.

Some are family-oriented poems, such as my poem Little Bit, which I wrote for my niece Kristin, or Camping with Younger Brother, which I wrote for my brother Craig, or Little Child, which I wrote for all the little ones in the world. Other poems are devoted to nature—like my Froggy, Turtle, Tornado, and Mother Nature poems—or to mankind in general, such as Earth on Which We Live and True Happiness. And others were written with some fun in mind, like the poem Nude I wrote in response to an online contest to rhyme the last word in each line with the word nude. (Birthday Lesson is another fun poem like this.) I also did a series of seven poems on each of the seven deadly sins, where I used archaic language to spoof each of these sins, which unfortunately often plague mankind. I truly hope you will enjoy reading the poems contained in this book.

CHAPTER ONE

Comes the Quatrains

The quatrain is one of the oldest forms of poetry, appearing in poems from