Written for OLWG #25
American Sentence
She pulled back and she smiled, you know the way she does; yeah, she smiled that way.
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Cinquain
money
money to burn.
his, all his; his money.
money he’d worked for, burned friends for.
money
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Tanka
it’s a curse, I say
my good looks, my wealth, my friends
fast women and cars
all a scheme to ruin my chance
for a tortured soul, and fame
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Shadorma
I like this
this exercise in
the process
that we call
creativity. Pare it
trim it – less is more.
This week’s prompts are
- She smiled that way
- It’s a curse
- Money to burn
Poetry.Scares.Me.
A lot.
Even the champagne cork, bullet and flower.
So much meaning.
Except for me and my pea brain.
[I like my peas with honey/I’ve loved ’em all my life/Makes the peas taste funny/But it keeps ’em on me knife.]
Limericks.
As good as it gets from the Roses are Red, Violets are Blue girl.
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Me too. I’m facing my fears. That usually proves an effective means of eliminating them.
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Tackling one genre at a time, even though my favorite prose authors were first considered accomplished poets.
I just…don’t get it. An elegantly penned prose can send me into the stratosphere, but poetry makes me feel as though I am lacking, both emotionally and intellectually. And yet, I am happy to celebrate it, because it is a form of artistic expression that I entirely and completely understand.
It’s just not…”my thing,” like, dance is not some people’s “thing,” or theater, or classical music, or Picasso, or…
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Fantabulous series! 😎😎😎😎😎
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I love all of these but especially 2 and 4. You’re gonna have to teach me the rules for writing tanka and shadorma.
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Oops, should have just read posts in date order – got it, well the shardorma. Still need help with the tanka.
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What a fun triolette. I especially enjoyed the cursed one….
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A nice variety. If you want to go even shorter there’s tau-ku and pi-ku: sentence/syllable(s)
tau ku: 1/6 2/2 3/8 :
to the light that lingered
goodbye…
the edge of the storm has arrived
pi ku (1/2 of a tau ku): 1/3 2/1 3/4
what is left?
one
word says; goodbye
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Nice
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