in words and/or in time?
and
could you/would you write one piece a day for say two months regardless of length?
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in words and/or in time?
and
could you/would you write one piece a day for say two months regardless of length?
A poem or whatever you write should be good. It doesn`t matter how much time it will take.
I have two complete and very short: one word each.
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The shortest poem I have written is a haiku which goes like this:
rain carving craters
sunshine creating shadows
silence filling both
Jassy that is a lovely haiku. I enjoyed that:)
I liked that also, Jassy. Very nice.
I think that I have written only 5 in English:
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Suddently you couldn`t be sure of the words.
Sounds as well as the meaning became futile and dank.
The shape of my eye and arm could be called whatever you wanted.
I was to lose myself in drone of muttering.
However,
I wasn`t.
If you speak Spanish you can read my poems here:
http://metapoesia.es.tl/Anna-Banasiak.htm
My poetry tends to go on and on... but I must admit I like short poems. I think it is often more effective to say something pertinent and meaningful in 4 lines than in 40.
This is my shortest poem, at two stanzas in length. I'm reasonably happy with it:
this is the way
The world corrupts, the world corrupts and falls,
and bright hoar ice inscribes the standing stones
about this place of death, this place of loss,
with veins of crackling cold, the script of time
writ large upon the silent graves around.
For we, the unfulfilled, that linger long,
too long, upon this whittling witless world,
yet know the truth that lies beneath our own
low pulse, that day by day counts out our lives.
It is the secret silence and the maw,
the fateful tick, the tock, and nothing more.
I occasionally write an epigram in the tradition of Donne and the Renaissance poets. It's a challenge putting a thought into a catchy line or two. Here's one:
Accord
A CHORD’s a group of notes being played
On diverse instruments,
A CORD’s to strangle those that don’t
Discern the difference.
Shortest time it took me to write one? Hard to say... maybe a few hours?
Like I said, it's hard to say. The shortest poems I typically write are cinquains, and while I'm often able to write one quite quickly, I often spend at least an hour or two tweaking it.
Thanks. Epigrams are just short, memorable sayings in verse. Coleridge probably wrote the definitive epigram about epigrams:
What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole;
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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My shortest is a haiku. But since I am an iconoclast I bastardized the form to make it 7/5/5 instead of 5/7/5. I took the title from the title of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud that was lost. Rimbaud's biographers say that Verlaine considered it to be Rimbaud's finest poem. But Verlaine was drinking a lot of absinthe at the time.
Haha nice one ;)Quote:
No?
Woe!
ah!
well.
short is to tale
long is to mail
:)