The Versesmith

  Tanka Tuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge:  Specific Form  " This week's challenge is to write an Imayo poem.  Your subject must be about a bird!  I can be any type of bird."  (edit: an Imayo is four lines, and I realize my error.  I have no idea why I only wrote three!) ©Lisa Smith Nelson The crows in silhouette watch, silent as one crow their quiet disconcerts me, the un-crow-like calm gnarled toes clasp gnarled winter limbs, beneath dove grey skies                                                              ©2023 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved ©Lisa Smith Nelson #syllabicpoetry #imayo #crowpoetry #syllabicpoem #tankatuesdayno329 #poetryprompt

  Weekly Scribblings #65 : Bird is the Word   Lune I've mentioned Brazilian haiku and Japanese haiku and Israeli haiku, but is there a form of haiku known as American?  Yes!  The Lune .  It was invented by Robert Kelly.   3 lines syllables 5/3/5 Later, Jack Collom introduced the word count variant of 5/3/5, which is now the most popular Lune form. That's it, no other rules.  More freedom, fewer syllables than haiku, and yet this form was more difficult for me than some others.  So few syllables to make the words matter more.   I wrote one of each variety.  The first using the syllable count, the second, words. What of Love? of what do we speak late at night what love do we seek?  Trash Talking Bird   Crow sits in the tree loudly talking trash to the cat watching below   Lanturne, or Lantern poetry, is considered by some to be a form of cinquain.  It's origin is unknown, although it's ...