More clever than poetic, my poem for day 2 of weary wary January where Mary E. Weems, Lady K. Smith and I each write a poem a day for the month choosing one of four forms – haiku, cinquain, tanka, or free form sonnet (aka blank verse sonnet). Sometime during the month I’m also going to attempt my first Shakespearean sonnet and my first Italian sonnet.
Form Farm
Three short lines of five
seven five in oughtful sought
births us to haiku.
Words build
syllable by
syllable, two, four, six,
eight, two, with minor start and stop —
cinquain.
Haiku on steroids,
take basic five seven five
and at the pause end
plop down two more hard sevens
for tanka firm foundation.
The Playwright Professor Poet asked the
BeeKeeper Lady and her Errant Scamp
if we three be’s could set to sea in four
forms of daily poetry — cinquain, free
form sonnet, haiku, and tanka — to choose
one for daily fun and that each day done
a poem appears constrained by one of the
above mixed with language love and mental
moral understanding of word with will,
will with worth, and worth with would, basic four
form path of right walk, right talk, right ought, right
sought seasoned in patience and compassion
like this free will dance of free form sonnet.
– Smith, 1.2.2015.
