Poetry Page
Do the Amish and poetry mix? Well, not really, but we've given it our best shot.
Do the Amish and poetry mix? Well, not really, but we've given it our best shot.
Here we have a collection of Amish-related poems from various authors. Some are poems of a certain format, such as Haiku or Limmericks. Others are just free verse.
If anyone would like to contribute any Amish poetry to our site, we would be glad to accept it. Then if we decide to add it to the site, we'll be sure to credit you as the author. Any poetry form, rhyming or non-rhyming will work. (We don't have any Amish sonnets yet.) We would also like to hear/see any original Amish songs that you have written.
Under each poetry link, we have put a short description of that peom style's structure, so that any would-be authors will know how that poem style works.
Just click on the type of poetry you'd like to read.
A Haiku has 3 short lines. Line 1 has 5 syllables, line 2 has 7 syllables, and line 3 has 5 syllables. The lines could rhyme, but they usually don't.
A Limmerick has 5 lines. Lines 1, 2 and 5 each have about 8 syllables. Lines 3 and 4 each have about 5 syllables. The ends of lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with each other, and the ends of lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other. Thus the rhyme scheme for a limmerick is A A B B A. (If we get any limmericks about an "Amish man from Nantucket," we won't use them, so don't bother.)
This is an example of a free verse poem. Free verse doesn't really have any rules (hence the name). Poems of this style can have any number of lines or stanzas, the lines can be any number of syllables long, and they can either rhyme or not rhyme.
Amish Poetry by David Ronald Bruce Pekrul
This page last updated Jan. 16, 2009