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Rated: 18+ · Folder · Emotional · #801066
Every poet find his/her way to the Japanese forms...
I bet if you took a survey of poets, you'd find that at least one in five have written (or tried to write) a poem in a Japanese form. For me, my first experience writing poetry was with the haiku, which was back in sixth grade for reading class. It was a good haiku, but like some of my best poems, it is AWOL. Pity. In the meantime, I went beyond the haiku (both form and theme-wise). In here, you will find forms such as the Naga Uta, Dodoitsu and the Kyoka. Other forms may appear in the future, including the Tanka and the Choka.


First, "Invalid Item"  is a collection of senryus from my high school days written mostly after I survived said hellpit. High school was traumatizing at times, but I found that writing senryus about various aspects of it made the memories easier to bear.

Then there is "Imperfect World" , essentially a poetic waxing from a democratic point of view. Am I a democrat? No. I really don't feel I "git" into a political party. Even so, I lament what has happened to the government of the United States, and the haibun captures my shameful disgust.

One day, I was flipping through b_boonstra's poetry form journal when I came across the Naga Uta. It seemed so easy, so I gave it a try. "My Defeat"  (my first effort) may have won a contest, but "Lust"  flows more smoothly in this form. I've since gone on to test the limits of this length with "Caress/Evade" , which to my surprise has been successful.

On one of the poetry week's at The Writer's Cramp, one of the prompts involved the dodoitsu. Its length is little larger than a Dodo Bird's brain, but big things come in small packages. I let irony work its whiles in "Without You" 

After perusing Dr M C Gupta 's collection of poems pertaining to the United States, I was inspired to try the kyoka form. "Truman's Folly"  is perhaps a bit mean spirited as a kyoka, but nonetheless, Harry S Truman is not revered in this quick poem.

Finally, I made a string of senryu for my beloved Peggy, who died in January 2005. In this chain senryu, I celebrate our bond throughout the nearly twenty years my Sissy was alive. Read about my darling Doggy in "Pegasus" .


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    Truman's Folly  
    Rated: ASR · Political · #1016530
    Ironic revisionist commentary on Harry S Truman, a mirror of twenty-first century America
    Without You  
    Rated: ASR · Romance/Love · #827532
    Who? Me? Suffer? That's funny...
    Caress/Evade  
    Rated: 13+ · Romance/Love · #1218459
    One man's flirt is another woman's disillusionment.
    Lust  
    Rated: 13+ · Romance/Love · #823385
    We must free what has always driven us mad.
    My Defeat  
    Rated: 13+ · Emotional · #791737
    What you get for playin' with my heart on the job
    Pegasus  
    Rated: E · Animal · #930214
    In memory of my beloved Peggy
    Imperfect World  
    Rated: 18+ · Political · #735411
    A nation's struggle encapsuled in a haibun
    Follow Me in the Club  
    Rated: 13+ · Drama · #2303055
    Is there ever a good age for being in (or figuring out) the limelight?
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