M - Mondo

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A Mondo is a poem with a question and an answer, often written by two poets in collaboration.  While it is quite like a sedoka, the focus of a mondo is on nature.  I read a mondo can be one line (although how that will contain the question and the answer wasn't explained), or two 5/7/7 stanzas, the first being the question, the second the answer. 


Trip to Faerie

 

This light that issues

from the blue morning glory,

where does it originate?

 

Faerie, I’ve no doubt.

A dreamland for bee visits;

See? Pollen glows on her back.

 

©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

 

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  1. A Tarkabarka HölgyApril 15, 2021 at 3:21 AM

    Lovely! I love everything about this, concept, image, and poem :)

    The Multicolored Diary

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    1. LisaApril 15, 2021 at 1:50 PM

      Thank you. I really do ask myself, and my family, every year, "Where does that light come from?" I take photo after photo and people think it's photoshopped, but they really are bright white inside!

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  2. Timothy S. BrannanApril 15, 2021 at 2:58 PM

    I did not know this! Thank you that is really great.

    --
    Tim Brannan, The Other Side: 2021: The A to Z of Monsters

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  3. Weekends in MaineApril 15, 2021 at 5:16 PM

    Wouldn't it be fun if life followed a Mondo and all our questions had the answers included. Although, maybe it wouldn't be as interesting. Weekends In Maine

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    1. LisaApril 15, 2021 at 6:09 PM

      But, would be follow the advice in the answers? Probably not. We like to muddle through on our own.

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  4. Anne E.G. NydamApril 17, 2021 at 7:00 AM

    There's your fairyland morning glory! Excellent! =)
    The mondo sounds like a fun form for poetry classes to play with.
    Black and White: M for Middle-earth

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