Limerick
Coffee
I've reached beyond those limits that bound
and searched around ‘til I finally found
The Pinnacle of Reality
is in my utter mortality
and so what I've found is simply the ground.






Haiku
Chicken or Egg
Chicken or the egg?
No Egg, No Chicken, Dummies
It's a no-brainer!






Sonnet
The Song
I sing a sonnet for you,
to immortalize my love,
I sing a sonnet for you,
such ethereality as further memories,
such pureness as youth sights,
such beauty as smile's meaning,
I sing a sonnet for you,
to tell my infinite love after years,
may tomorrow be late,
I sing a sonnet for you..

Ballad
Mistakes
Sometimes,
It is nothing else,
But mistakes that make us learn
a beautiful ballad of life,
Though this heart laments,
Perhaps for the time being gone,
The pain whirls out soon,
It doesn't stay long.
And then our heart again waits,
For a beautiful spring,
To come out with its sighs and mummers,
And a more beautiful ballad of life
all over again.
po•et•ry
?p??tr?,?p?itr?/
noun
noun: poetry; plural noun: poetries
1.
1.
literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.












Romanticism
The basic idea in Romanticism is that reason cannot explain everything. In reaction to the cult of rationality that was the Enlightenment, Romantics searched for deeper, often subconscious appeals. This led the Romantics to view things with a different spin than the Enlightenment thinkers. For example, the Enlightenment thinkers condemned the Middle Ages as "Dark Ages", a period of ignorance and irrationality. The Romantics, on the other hand, idealized the Middle Ages as a time of spiritual depth and adventure. Looking wistfully back to the Middle Ages, the Romantic influence led to a Gothic Revival in architecture in the 1830s. Gothic novels increased in popularity, and in art, paintings of various historical periods and exotic places came into vogue.



Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a religious and philosophical movement that was developed during the late 1820s and 1830s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest against the general state of spirituality and, in particular, the state of intellectualism. Among the transcendentalists' core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both people and nature. Transcendentalists believe that society and its institutions particularly organized religion and political parties ultimately corrupt the purity of the individual. They have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community could be formed.


















Sources
Including a few poem sites along with a couple sites that had information on Romanticism, and Transcendentalism.