So I was thinking about another haiku, but thought, "Why not get adventurous?" The picture my wife inserted below notwithstanding, in general I have been fairly conservative in my blogging. So tonight, I'm branching out. I'm going to attemp a Septolet. A septolet, you ask, "What is that?" Well, I'll tell you:
The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture.
So here goes. My first ever attempt at a Septolet:
Buzzing
Fiercly biting
Causing itchy pain
Mosquito armies
attack relentlessly;
my porch
the battleground.
And now, my own invention, a monolet:
Was that a racoon that just ran across my driveway or are the rats getting bigger?
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hahaha! this made me laugh since Ive seen those racoon-sized rats here at our "new" house......how'd they walk all the way here from New York City? i thought that was the only place that had rats so gigantic. yuck!
You teach me many things, brother. Appreciation for fine poetry notwithstanding...
I am looking for an interesting picture of your wife and didn't see one. Did I miss it?
I'm speechless.
Ah - mazing. I just want to know if you learned that in med school, high school English, or did McKenna teach you? And I hope it was a racoon. Much cuter a racoon.
Trisha,
I was referring to the picture Anda had put in of me with my underpants slightly exposed. Maybe adventurous wasn't exactly the right word.
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