Brazilian Haiku
Brazilian haiku is still 5/7/5 but has a rhyming pattern of
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streets glisten in rain
a wild night for man or child
rattles window pane
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Untitled Golden Shovel
Writers' Pantry #52 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/01/writers-pantry-52-years-beginning.html I've been playing with some new, to me, poetry forms. April is the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, and my plans are A-Z of poetry forms. I like to get a head start, especially since I also participate on my other blog. This is a Golden Shovel. It was created by Terrance Hayes, an award-winning poet and professor in New York. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/terrance-hayes The "rules" are: take lines, or one line, from an existing poem take each word and use it, in order, as an end word in your new poem give credit My poem uses the words from the last line of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II), "and so stand stricken so remembering him." I had told him “yes” already, and it’s too late to change that now, so I let my words stand though I am stricken at the thought. I am so cr
Goody ... a new form. I love this!!!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed it too! I look forward to what you can do with it.
DeleteI used to write a few haiku years ago. Introducing a rhyming pattern may even tempt me back again!
ReplyDeleteGood! I rhymed the second word, but it can be the second syllable of a longer word. I'm trying that.
DeleteNice one !
ReplyDeleteThank you! :)
DeleteLovely poem – and intriguing form.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I found it interesting too, something different.
DeleteKiller haiku Lisa! In 50+ years of writing poetry and Lyric, I don’t recall this gotm — bit I like it.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I am planning my A-Z for the Bloggers Challenge in April, and found this searching B forms. There isn't a lot online about it, other than Brazilian works of course.
DeleteEveryone knows I think in rhyme. This one is made for me. Love the way you used it!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much!
DeleteI love the sound and images this one brings to mind. A fantastic piece Lisa. Also, Brazilian Haiku is new to me, so thank you for the introduction!
ReplyDeleteThank you, and you're welcome! It was new to me too.
DeleteNicely written!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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