Experimenting with some haiku, tanka, monoku, cinqku, short verse forms I recently came across online. I love these short little expressions and snapshots of life and moments.
gembun (forthosepensivemoments)
he reminisced about a day...
walks toward a former
day-light seems to thin out, his
feet, mere echos...lost
gembun is made up of either one-word first link or anything up to one sentence, to be capped by a haiku of up to four lines.
Tryst...
Trips to Austria in early spring claimed most of our time and energy...we were desperate to
leave our pasts...respectively we settled down to a leisurly jog through that part of Europe
stopping to enjoy each others passion, we invoked a heat that threatened to turn the Danube
completely black.
the above is known as a Legends. Its a 51 word titled short story about life, love, and loss written as a prose. count all hyphenated words as one word.
drunken man seated in the dark
charlie parker only
plowin' suffocating regrets
his glass half
empty contains
more tears.
Cherita is the Malay word for story or tale. It consists of a single stanza of a one line verse, followed by a two line verse, and then finishing with a three line verse. It tells a story.
zip (forlifedecisions)
i took yo advice moved with speed
moved so fast lost sight of life
This is called a ZIP haiku, its a formal pattern for writing short, japanese style verse in english. Its an alternative to the three line - 5/7/5 - patteren. The zip has a fixed total of 15 syllables used at will over two lines, each line broken by a triple space (caesura). [my interjection] both lines will either be 8/7 or 7/8 or whatever number of syllables equalls 15 as a whole.
cinqku
gates locked...
i watch life
run frm between
his thighs to mouths of
eyelids.
Cinqku is a cinquain form of tanka with: a strict syllable count of (2,3,4,6,2) making 17 syllables on 5 lines. The single cinqku generally don't have titles unless its a several of them. tanka style is free diction and syntax, no meterical requirement.
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