Comments | spacethyme: Keeping up the momentum . . .

spacethyme

Keeping up the momentum . . .

Feb 05, 2007 21:49

Even though we're 11 days past the 70 days of the Poetry Project, I'm managing to keep up one a day--most much shorter--and Saturday tackled my first sapphic (from, ofcourseof course, Sappho's example). Maybe now, while I'm editing the Grandmother Tilda poems, is the time to go more seriously into forms. The first serious poems I wrote were sonnets ( Read more... )

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Not that this will affect your momentum... cptstickfigure February 6 2007, 15:59:07 UTC

Haiku was big with the geek crowd a few years back. Probably had something to do with Cryptonomicon. For about 6 months, every announcement on the sysadmin list was written as a little 5-7-5. Bonus points for anyone who managed to squeeze a seasonal reference into a haiku about a server meltdown.

Re: Not that this will affect your momentum... spacethyme February 6 2007, 16:11:15 UTC

Haiku usually isn't my favorite form, but THAT is cool! No wonder I have such a weakness for geeks!

Re: Not that this will affect your momentum... cptstickfigure February 6 2007, 22:50:31 UTC

I can't say I'm INTO it, but it came very naturally to me (and many other technical folk, apparently). I suppose it's a logical extension of programming, where you regularly drop all extraneous characters.

Whatever the reason, it was a welcome distraction, and there were some epic battles that I wish I had saved.