Poetic Toys
Poems
carnal
A trad sestina from the coast — a hot, carnal memory flickering through a dying CRT
aboutRiver of Reverence
Lucy Holman's drifting sestina — six end-word lineages, each shifting by a single letter per stanza
aboutToys
Pantoum Composer tool
Pantoum helper and composer: quatrains where lines two and four of each stanza return as lines one and three of the next, with every repeat kept in place as you write.
aboutVillanelle Composer tool
Villanelle helper and composer: nineteen lines on two rhymes, with both refrains written once and echoed through the poem to the closing couplet.
aboutLipogram Composer tool
Lipogram and univocalic composer: ban letters or keep a single vowel, with every stray letter marked live as you type.
aboutGolden Shovel Composer tool
Golden shovel helper and composer: borrow a line, and each of its words is held as the last word of a line in your poem.
aboutHaiku Composer tool
Haiku helper and composer: three lines, five · seven · five, with syllables counted live as you type.
aboutSestina Composer tool
Build a drifting sestina — pick six end-words, watch the rotation, write the lines, save versions
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