Shared Poem - You Decide What Kind!
here's background on these fab 4:
limericks end with the same sounds: lines 1,2,5, are A and 3 and 4 are B - what we could do here is after posting yours, you provide the words to end the lines of the one - example clue/stew/harsh/marsh/chew
sonnets are obviously hard as hell but we could have fun and maybe even turn some good ones out. personally i'd have more fun eating nails. :D :D
maybe we could each contribute 2 lines at a time? or 7 and 7.
death poems are sort of self-explanatory aren't they? i wrote mine one sad silly night years ago, although they're supposed to be done at ceremonial moments, (like hari kari - DON"T try at home!!) before the big bye-bye. there was a full moon that provided sentimental background, too. :rolleyes:
with this one we could use the format we've used for the haiku - the last person's last line and build on it. it could be simultaneously spiritual, silly, helpful (like a friend of mine lost her friend recently, and i had nothing to offer but a poem) .
so the tanka (a.k.a. waka) was really popular into the 1500's - and i always think of my brothers' tonka trucks when i hear this word. :)
"The first three lines (kami no ku) usually present an image or thought and the last two lines (shimo no ku) shift the focus to a related idea. We might see this as similar to a sonnet's "turn." - from http://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/poetso...rch_tanka.html
with this one we could add the last two lines, and start the first three of the next.
here's an example by Lady Ise:
Pillows know, they say,
and so we slept without one.
Why then do rumors
like swirling pillars of dust
rise as high as the heavens?
A Tanka about The Universe.
The Universe, with
all its splendor, always seems
to mystify me.
The suns, stars and galaxies;
what purpose do they all serve?