Form play
We're playing with shapes in this issue of your weekly poetry booster shot
Shapes,
forms,
evoke
emotions.
That's this poet's aim.
And sometimes I even succeed.
I’ve been playing with forms again lately. Not those shapes you give small children so they can start developing their scientific muscles at a young age, but poetic forms. I usually write poems in the tritriplicata form, a form I created myself. But practising with other poetic forms, helps me to sharpen my pen and develop specific writing skills that will come in handy when I create poetry. When I write in other forms, I accept that the result might not be the best poem I’ve ever written. That’s not the goal. The goal is to strengthen the different skills you need when writing poetry. Rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and so on.
The easiest way to make practising a habit is to do it together. That’s why I started Form Friday on my new favourite social network Farcaster. Every Friday, I will challenge my fellow Farcasters (and you if you join in) to try writing a poem in a specific form. Today it’s the Fib, a poetic form based on the Fibonacci sequence. It’s a poem that mostly has 6 lines. The syllable count follows the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.
Go
on!
Try it.
And please share
your finished poem
in the comment section below.
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Poetics in life
Try something new for 30 days. A simple concept, but something you can easily do. Just try. But first, watch this short TED talk that tells you why:
Poetry elsewhere
Why not try for 30 days to look intently at art. Any art. Poetry, maybe. I believe that the meaning of an artwork is not just in what the artist has created, but also what the person looking at the piece brings to the interpretation of it. You can get lost in art, looking for answers, for meaning, for a story. The
does precisely that in this wonderful poem birthday girl:
Poetry can help people who are struggling with life. Life is, after all, not always easy. And if poets share their struggles in a poem, that is not just for their own benefit, they poem will find someone who recognises it, and may help that person to make life lighter and easier. Maria Verder writes such poems, and she illustrates them herself as well. As she did with this one, Cansada de no poder ser/Tired of not being able to be.
If you want to try new things, you will have to embark on a journey. And that journey may be hard. But often, it’s still worth it. That process is very vividly described in this poem by
from Tumbleweed Words:
Much appreciated, Arjan! Very happy you consider 'birthday girl' a good example of a point you want to make. I have to say, you do interesting work here!
I used to play with Fibonacci form quite often, and found that doing so mad me much more aware of the repeated patterns in all of nature and the world around me. It's a great tool to increase conscious living!