Here’s a linked list of the thirty poems I did this month (each in a different style) for National Poetry Month (and the various other descriptors it’s become known by: e.g. #NaPoWriMo and #GloPoWriMo )
1.) Limerick: Viral Limerick
2.) Sonnet: A Sonnet in Contradictions
3.) Haiku: Solitude Haiku
4.) Ghazal: Away
5.) Acrostic: BANGALORE
6.) Villanelle: Escaping the Frame
7.) Clerihew: A Few Clerihew
8.) Ode: Ode to my Immune System
9.) Ruba’i: Cloud Ruba’iyat
10.) Tanka: Rainy Day Tanka
11.) Free Verse: Train of Sleep
12.) Rondeau: I’ve Seen Sunsets
13.) Senryu: A Few Senryu
14.) Pantoum: Bee Flow
15.) Elegy: Spanish Flu Elegy
16.) Narrative: The Philosopher
17.) Doggerel: All Hail, Warhol!
18.) Prose Poem: Perpetual City
19.) Idyll: Sense of the Meadow
20.) Sestina: Fear in Motion
21.) Lai: Rubber Ducky
22.) Ottava Rima: The Unblemished & the Indelible
23.) Aubade: Booty Call Aubade
24.) Confessional: Fear & the Snowflake
25.) Triolet: The Cult of Leandra
26.) Lyric: Sound
27.) Eclogue: After the Rains
28.) Symbolist: Pressure
29.) Dickinsonian: (1)
30.) Ballad: Orpheus Twisted
Tiger Riding for Beginners 
All poems are marvelous. First time I came across ghazal and Rubaiyat in English.
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Thank you very much.
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So many types of poems?I did not know that you could write a Ghazal in English. Please also enlighten the difference between Sonnet and Limerick. I am genuinly keen on learning about styles of poetry.
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I’m sure there are those who would say you can’t properly write a Ghazal in English. But poets are notoriously unruly when it comes to playing with forms, and there is now a long history of English language poets utilizing the form.
A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem that is metered and rhymed. For English language sonnets, the meter is usually (but not exclusively) iambic pentameter. There are a couple of different popular rhyme schemes. One is the original from the Italian Sonnet, another is that from the Shakespearean Sonnet. Traditionally, it deals in serious topics, notably love and death.
A limerick is a five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme with the third and fourth lines being shorter than the others. Limericks are generally humorous or at least light-hearted in tone, and (contributing to this is may employ weak rhymes or distort words to achieve a rhyme.)
Sonnets and Limericks are both rhyming fixed forms, but other than that have little in common.
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