Poetry Forms
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It’s #FFF — Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This piece was written five years ago and is being recycled today. It’s the Lucky Dip Saturday Mix over at MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie. Today we are to write a Somonka: The somonka is a Japanese form. In fact, it’s basically two tankas written as two love letters to each other (one tanka
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So sweetly, your gentle love wound its way around my heart like delicate passionflower tendrils. O, but soon it transformed into a strangling kudzu vine: clinging, binding, suffocating, and finally withering my almost-beating heart — leaving a silent screaming wound. You and your vicious love.
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Some hearts were meant for breaking Unluckily born in vain Thornbird’s song in the making. Some hearts were meant for taking Not caring if they cause pain Some hearts were meant for breaking. Some hearts go through life faking It’s their tears that bring the rain Thornbird’s song in the making. Some hearts expect forsaking
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They say you can’t miss what you never had. Who are they and how do they know my heart? I dare them to tell me why I’m not sad. My heart’s leaking tears; the break is that bad. “It’s all in your mind; just make a fresh start.” They say you can’t miss what you
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Recipe for a Fibonacci Poem 1 syllable for the first line 1 syllable for the second line 2 syllables for third 3 syllables for fourth 5 syllables for fifth 8 syllables for sixth 13 for the seventh If it’s true that we each have an astral body, I hope mine will find the one love
Ergo, the Ogre 