Fri 9 Feb 2018
Day two, week one – haiku*
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Thu 8 Feb 2018
I’m going to try something here
Posted by PJ under art, cinquain, haiku, nature, poetry, poetry project, tanka
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But the writing…fits and starts, can’t keep going on anything, things bubbling below the surface, but they won’t come out. I need to write. I long for it so hard, so deep. I think I need to force my own hand, so I’m going to try doing little things with that, too. I remember a writing teacher many long yarns ago who made us do five weeks (out of 20) of nothing but haiku, tanka, and cinquains before he’d let us do any other kind of writing. We chafed at that, some dropped the class, but for those of us who stuck with it this discipline turned into an amazingly freeing exercise. So…
Haiku
Poems of 3 lines and 17 syllables:
Line 1, 5 syllables
Line 2, 7 syllables
Line 3, 5 syllables
Tanka
Poems of 5 lines, 31 syllables:
Line 1, 5 syllables
Line 2, 7 syllables
Line 3, 5 syllables
Line 4, 7 syllables
Line 4, 7 syllables
Cinquain
An American form in imitation of the Japanese forms above. (Some cheat and title these poems, allowing themselves an extra line.)
Poems of 5 lines with iambic accents:
Line 1, 1 accent
Line 2, 2 accents
Line 3, 3 accents
Line 4, 4 accents
Line 5, 1 accent
Can I keep up the discipline? What discipline should I set myself? One a day? One a week?
I’ll try one a day, but that may be ambitious. One a week seems too little. So maybe I’ll compromise. I have to do at least 3 a week. If I do more, that’s great, but at least those three. So, here we go.
Edited to add:Â I started this on a Thursday, so my week runs Thursday to Thursday.
Day One – Tanka (with a thanks to mountoregano and a side thanks to Billy Collins)
The daffodils hold,
their green ranks standing silent.
The peach tree, chafing
with impatience, holds forth in
full spring, laughing pink blossoms.
Wed 7 Feb 2018
Amazing
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Random quote of the day:
“Almost every haiku says the same thing: it’s amazing to be alive here.â€
—Billy Collins, The Paris Review, No. 159, Fall 2001
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Thu 19 Oct 2017
Dove guitar
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Random quote of the day:
“The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.
—Pablo Neruda, The Paris Review, Issue 51, Spring 1971
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Wed 28 Jun 2017
Poet head
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Random quote of the day:
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.â€
—Orson Welles, “Ribbon of Dreams,†International Film Annual, No. 2, 1958
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Mon 22 May 2017
Everything
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Random quote of the day:
“When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything.â€
—Steven Wright, I Have A Pony
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Thu 11 May 2017
Discovery
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Random quote of the day:
“I don’t think people read poetry because they’re interested in the poet. I think they read poetry because they’re interested in themselves….I read poetry to discover things about myself…â€
—Billy Collins, interview, Powell’s Book Blog, October 10, 2006
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Mon 20 Mar 2017
Fresh off the presses, so please keep that in mind
Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry, spring
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Oh
Spring, oh spring, you break my heart
with the gaudy riot you splash against my eyes,
with the sweet winds and misting torrents,
you crack my heart wide open, thrusting life
where I have carefully kept it out.
Oh spring, oh spring, how can I deny you
when all around the yellow and red burn,
burn and burst and foment and fly?
Oh spring.
Oh.
Thu 2 Mar 2017
Alive
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Random quote of the day:
“I promise to make you so alive that
the fall of dust on furniture will deafen you…”
—Nina Cassian, “Ordealâ€Â (tr. Michael Impey and Brian Swann)
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Mon 20 Feb 2017
Imaginary gardens
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Random quote of the day:
“[Poetry is] imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”
—Marianne Moore, “Poetryâ€
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