The morning birdsong
fills the city streets with sound--
nature's traffic jam.
My take on this week's Monday Musings form prompt - Haiku.
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Monday Musings: April 21, 2014 - Form Prompt
Prompt: Haiku
What to do: Write a haiku. A haiku is a poem consisting of three lines. The first and last line has 5 moras (or sound unit like a syllable), and the middle line has 7 moras.
While not technically a syllable, I tend to think of a mora as a syllable to make it easier on myself. ;)
Prompt inspired by: Spring and my early morning visits to the outdoors with Milo.
What to do: Write a haiku. A haiku is a poem consisting of three lines. The first and last line has 5 moras (or sound unit like a syllable), and the middle line has 7 moras.
While not technically a syllable, I tend to think of a mora as a syllable to make it easier on myself. ;)
Prompt inspired by: Spring and my early morning visits to the outdoors with Milo.
Monday Musings: March 17, 2014 - Form Prompt
Yes, yes... I know it's Wednesday.
Prompt: Write a Limerick
What to do: Aw, come on. You've heard at least a few of these little diddys -- think Mother Goose or a good ol' humorously lewd bit of fun... Five lines; first two lines rhyme with each other, the third and fourth rhyme together, and the fifth line either repeats the first line or rhymes with it. It is written in anapestic rhythm with an example demonstrated with syllable marks below (the back-slashes are stresses, the dashes are not):
Line 1 - / - - / - - /
Line 2 - / - - / - - /
Line 3 - / - - /
Line 4 - / - - /
Line 5 - / - - / - - /
Prompt inspired by: St. Patrick's Day and the city of Limerick, Ireland (Why not? I've never been there but it looks and sounds like a great place to visit. It is Ireland after all!)
My take on this week's prompt:
A Faerie McClary
There once was a Yank named McClary
Who was incredibly short and quite hairy.
He reinvented his past
claiming birth in Belfast
and passed himself off as a faerie.
Prompt: Write a Limerick
What to do: Aw, come on. You've heard at least a few of these little diddys -- think Mother Goose or a good ol' humorously lewd bit of fun... Five lines; first two lines rhyme with each other, the third and fourth rhyme together, and the fifth line either repeats the first line or rhymes with it. It is written in anapestic rhythm with an example demonstrated with syllable marks below (the back-slashes are stresses, the dashes are not):
Line 1 - / - - / - - /
Line 2 - / - - / - - /
Line 3 - / - - /
Line 4 - / - - /
Line 5 - / - - / - - /
Prompt inspired by: St. Patrick's Day and the city of Limerick, Ireland (Why not? I've never been there but it looks and sounds like a great place to visit. It is Ireland after all!)
My take on this week's prompt:
A Faerie McClary
There once was a Yank named McClary
Who was incredibly short and quite hairy.
He reinvented his past
claiming birth in Belfast
and passed himself off as a faerie.
Update: Monday Musings 2/24/24 Poem Featured at Poets Online!
"Winter Ronka" was chosen by Poets Online as one of the featured poems for the February 2014 Ronka prompt. It can be viewed at poetsonline.org under Archives, ronka / Ken Ronkowitz.
You just never know what will happen if you dare to put yourself out there... ;)
You just never know what will happen if you dare to put yourself out there... ;)
Monday Musings: February 24, 2014 - Form Prompt
Prompt: Poetry Form - Ronka
What to do: Write a Ronka - a poem of 5 lines, each having 7 words without concern for syllables. Like traditional tanka and haiku, there is no rhyme and a preference to show rather than tell.
Prompt inspired by: poetsonline.org / writingtheday.wordpress.com
While I am always on the lookout for individual creative action, it never hurts to go back and draw from the mainstream now and then. I've found poetsonline.com (and Ken Ronkowitz especially) to be the "shot in the arm" so to speak when I'm feeling stuck or stale.
My take on this week's prompt:
Winter Ronka
Snow fell hard and heavy all night.
Cold but pristine, the glittering white blanket
covered all the world in quiet beauty.
The frigid silence, so fragile as glass,
was shattered by the hulking city plow.
What to do: Write a Ronka - a poem of 5 lines, each having 7 words without concern for syllables. Like traditional tanka and haiku, there is no rhyme and a preference to show rather than tell.
Prompt inspired by: poetsonline.org / writingtheday.wordpress.com
While I am always on the lookout for individual creative action, it never hurts to go back and draw from the mainstream now and then. I've found poetsonline.com (and Ken Ronkowitz especially) to be the "shot in the arm" so to speak when I'm feeling stuck or stale.
My take on this week's prompt:
Winter Ronka
Snow fell hard and heavy all night.
Cold but pristine, the glittering white blanket
covered all the world in quiet beauty.
The frigid silence, so fragile as glass,
was shattered by the hulking city plow.
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Yes, yes... I know it's Wednesday. Prompt: Write a Limerick What to do: Aw, come on. You've heard at least a few of these litt...
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