Because we all want to write more poems.
First snow of winter
First snow of winter
gingerbreads our neighborhood
in powdered sugar.
- Benjamin Gorman's Shared Poems
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First snow of winter
gingerbreads our neighborhood
in powdered sugar.
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Benjamin Gorman
January 2, 2012
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challenge within the challenge
I know, I know: "but it's just a haiku."
(I have a feeling the old masters would not take that disparaging comment lightly!)
But the point is well taken. A haiku (to our Western sensibilities) seems such a cop-out, when the task at hand is to write a poem.
The inner challenge, then, is to keep the haikuing to a minimum. (I mean, I do like the form, though I admit to knowing little about its highest and best use; I don't mean to dismiss the form, when done well. I'm just saying I don't necessarily do the form justice, so I mean to apply my better efforts in other forms-- or non-forms?).
Jennifer Dixey
January 2, 2012
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No judgement!
Ah. The inner judge. I know it well. Don't let it rule here. Write something every day. Go back later and write it again as a non-haiku, if you please ... even write it twice in the same space (that's why there's an Edit tab). Haiku, limerick, doggerel, villanelle, sonnet, all will be equally respected here. Just dance.* And if you don't like the looks of it, there's always the "unpublish" button, where we hide our unpublishables. The point is to produce work, and any and all work is A-OK.
*(Ha! See what I did there? Quoted Lady Gaga, just to prove I'm no snob.)