An-Dinh Nguyen

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Poetry

What do I do when I want to capture beauty in a flash, share stories in miniature or just play around with words? I turn to this form of expression.

Rhyme

Here's one example from my more moralistic days.

"The Drinker's Dirge" (PDF, 1 page, 36.8 KB)

Free Verse

Imagery, emotion or thought guided the course of these poems more than structure.

"Firecracker" (PDF, 1 page, 22.1 KB)

"The Wishing Fountain" (PDF, 2 pages, 25.2 KB)

"The Stream" (PDF, 1 page, 26.6 KB)

Shape

I arranged this poem's text to visually enhance the "splits" between coolness and heat, leisure and urgency, innocence and the loss of it.

"Lickety-Split" (PDF, 1 page, 18.9 KB)

Imitative

Below: a scene from John Milton's Paradise Lost in the manner of Alexander Pope's witty couplets (or, per me, "Popelets") and a piece in Edmund Spenser's more florid, uniquely structured style.

Popelets for Paradise Lost (PDF, 1 page, 18.4 KB)

Spenserian Stanzas (PDF, 1 page, 35.0 KB)