Ok...here's the deal. Since it is National Poetry Month (NPM), I am going to try to put up a different poetic form daily (except weekends...I gotta rest sometime!). Most likely if there is a body of work attached to the definition...it's NOT MINE. It's the example that came with the definition. We all claim to be poets/wordsmiths/respecters of the literary and/or spoken word, but some of us (including myself) don't know at least a quarter of the different forms out there. So this serves as an educational tool for all of us (especially me) so that maybe...somewhere down the line, we can all be the most powerful poets/wordsmiths we can be. It doesn't hurt to know this stuff if you end up working in the literary world (especially poetry) either. Peace

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"I am the olive in your navel because your skin is a shot of gin" - Brandon D. Johnson, poet

"Haiku Revisted
When looking for a word, find it in your heart then release it at once." (c) ASIEM, 4/2/02


Del "Lucy Likka" Rica


AIM: damnacmeissue & delricaa | Blackplanet: changingseasons

http://www.4luvofpoetry.com
http://www.saulwilliams.com

Aiyo thanks,

I appreciate you taking out the time to do this
cause Im really trying to get diversified with
my verbal delivery and written presentation

I know this will be very beneficial...

so imagine me just giving you a real big hug
through the computer screen *smile*

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--Madness is the prelude to Genius--

(or is that backwards) --anyway--

Peter Parker is
the amaZing spiderman

(and a whole bunch a other ish that tries to defy gravity)

Please bless this poetry board
I moderate over at THH
http://ub3.homepagetools.com/thhfreestyle/
--It needs help--

There is so much I can say about you sistah. I was at a reading in Baltimore and met Tif and Micki. So big up's to you in D.C. hey knowledge becomes power only when used...keep the power, by sharing the Love and information.
ASIEM
"Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran
(Be and it is)
" A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder
checkout this site
http://4luvofpoetry.com

I think we on the board aren't generally concerned enough with understanding form and prefer to think of the whole concept of rules as outmoded because we are "different."

I'm down. I'm in. I'm in awe that you undertook the task.

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whatkindasoftcoregaypornshitisthat?!!?!?
-effa_mainstream

"Dazed and confused for so long it's not
true/Wanted a woman, never bargained for
you/Lotsa people talking, few of them
know/The soul of a woman was created
below."

Something like Eldridge Cleaver meets
John Lennon

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National Poetry Month (NPM) Lessons

Intro: http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/freestyle/17980.html

One (Haiku): http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/freestyle/17893.html

Two (Iambic Pentameter): http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/freestyle/17940.html

Three (Tanka): http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/freestyle/17960.html

Four (Villanelle): http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/freestyle/18000.html

Five (Limerick):
http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/freestyle/18031.html

AIM: damnacmeissue & delricaa | Blackplanet: changingseasons

http://www.4luvofpoetry.com
http://www.saulwilliams.com

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AIM: damnacmeissue & delricaa | Blackplanet: changingseasons

http://www.4luvofpoetry.com
http://www.saulwilliams.com

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AIM: damnacmeissue & delricaa | Blackplanet: changingseasons

http://www.4luvofpoetry.com
http://www.saulwilliams.com