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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 2, 2011 14:19:56 GMT -6
Thanks - this has been my avatar most places for a long time - I always tell people that's exactly what I look like I also love Sweet Silver Bird's avatar - it is very her in many ways ... odd, isn't it, that a person who has always been at heart a bird would also be so much a cat person that she would create an avatar that transforms into a cat, but it is the perfect thing for her. I guess that makes her a catbird ;D
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 2, 2011 17:26:18 GMT -6
I'd say it makes her a silver cat-bird! She's awesome, no matter what she is!
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 2, 2011 18:18:56 GMT -6
As it happens, the Gray Catbird is fairly close to silver in colour ;D and yes, she is very awesome!
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Post by dustandwater on Mar 17, 2011 23:08:43 GMT -6
Hi, Brigid and those of you rising to her challenge.
As some of you may have noticed, I can be a bit of a stickler. Therefore, I've popped over to try out my hand at the modern Haiku and see if I can't embrace it progressive style.
Here's my attempt based on the topic given.
Haiku (battlefield)
arguments shot down - words strewn on the battlefield of conversation
Some really nice Haiku from the rest of you. @sweetsilverbird, I agree with the others: You should definitely give it a go.
I find that sometimes, when I try out a new form for the first time it resonates with me in such a way that I have to explore it more. Sometimes a certain form will attach itself to certain moods and I will write differently depending on my day.
I recommend that anyone even mildly interested in poetry try out as many different forms or styles as they can get their hands on.
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Post by dustandwater on Mar 17, 2011 23:17:14 GMT -6
Hello again.
I managed to miss that there was a second page and so some of my previous comment does not apply.
@sweetsilverbird, congratulations for jumping in head first there. A nice little collection of Haiku.
My favourite was the last one. I think the point was a very valuable one. I have never spent much time around other poets. Many of my friends didn't know that I wrote until fairly recently. Therefore, I have endured for a long time non-poets berating non-rhyming poetry. I think your Haiku sums that up brilliantly.
Keep it up!
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 17, 2011 23:28:01 GMT -6
Hi dustandwater, I like it! I hope you'll fall in love with haiku as I have. It takes a great sensibility to convey something clearly and completely in seventeen syllables or less. Keep at it. As for people who deride free-verse---well, there's no accounting for taste. Free verse is widely accepted these days, even as much or more so than rhyming poetry. The big drawback for me with rhyming poetry is that you usually have to make small compromises of meaning to get the rhyme. Yes, it's challenging to rhyme, however, it's not always the most direct and exact communication. But, then all poetry is not meant to be direct and exact. I'm glad to see you back with us. I've missed your unique voice. Brigid
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Mar 18, 2011 0:57:11 GMT -6
dustandwater I don't think I can try Haiku with this tight a challenge on it. I'm too new to the concept. But I'm thinking about them all the time. I find them hard to wrap my brain around, but that doesn't mean that I can't learn a few new tricks~! I'm watching.. and hopefully learning something.
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Post by dustandwater on Mar 18, 2011 3:56:12 GMT -6
Thanks, Brigid, for your kind words. I think this is an excellent challenge that you have set.
Something I have long admired other poets for is poetry concerning poetry. I have never been able to it well. This Haiku challenge is the perfect place for me to practice.
@sweetsilverbird, one of the great things about Haiku is the way that they can crop up at any time. I think Haiku is a great way for the poet to keep exercising the mind. On days when I don't have time or inclination to write much, I find that if I can at least think of a Haiku relating to my day, it keeps me fresh (whether I write it down or not).
So yes, keep thinking them up. Keep churning them out. It's a great way to fine-tune your creativity and to learn how you as an individual find inspiration.
Also, see American Sentence as another observational form useful for day-to-day practice.
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 18, 2011 6:43:34 GMT -6
I was surprised to learn the the American Sentence as a poetry form was created by the iconic beat poet, Allen Ginsberg. From what I've read, the American Sentence is no different from what is now called the "modern" haiku, except perhaps in format. Haiku still retain the three-line format, while the American Sentence is just that, a sentence. Here's a link: www.americansentences.org/
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Post by Amanda Moore on Mar 19, 2011 22:35:10 GMT -6
Writers Block A poets challenge May fail if words can't be found Mind and soul at odds ;D
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 20, 2011 0:24:50 GMT -6
Hi Amanda, I'm taking it that "Writer's Block" is your title. Ironically, I have found that haiku are the best way for me to get poetry flowing. I don't normally suffer from writer's block, but if the words are reluctant haiku seems to be the way to get them clambering over each other for expression... sleeping words awake as she puts pen to paper ah, haiku Brigid
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