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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Khalil Gibran
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Robert Frost
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Duality of Love
When you get that call.
It's a punch in the gut.
The one where they tell you they're dying.
Your love for them holding hands with sorrow, then anger, then hopelessness, and then sorrow again. Sometimes one at a time, like a slow dance and other times all at once like a game of red rover trying to break you apart.
In my years I've noticed that love is rarely this singular emotion. You'll often find it entwined with one or more other emotions.
This month I challenge you to write a poem displaying this duality—whether you show it combined in the same stanzas or separate them into their own stanzas. To help you with this challenge, I'm sharing a couple of forms.
Brady's Touch
The Brady's Touch form is a more recent invention—having been created within the past fifteen years or so. Maryann Merryweather-Travis is the poetess/inventor of this form. The name of the form comes from the person she wanted to honor with this invention, poet Allen Brady.
MUST HAVES
--Stanza count: 2
--Line count total: 10 (5 lines in each stanza)
--Rhyme in the following format: ABCDE ABFDE
--Meter: syllabic in the following format: 9/9/8/8/2 9/9/8/8/2
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--topic, theme—but if you're going to use this form for the above challenge it will be the duality of love or love and at least one other emotion.
Katuata
As the brevity of the form may suggest, it originated in Japan.
MUST HAVES
--Stanza count: 1 unless creating a Katuata chain
--Line count total: 3
--Meter: syllabic in the following format: 5/7/7
--Ask a question, then respond to that question OR make a heartfelt statement and respond to that statement (why I thought it would make a good form for the above challenge).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic, theme
--Rhyme, although this form, like most Asian poetry, tends not to rhyme
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