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[Eisa]

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large eyes flutter
among echinachea blooms -
peacock butterfly

[4rum]

Ya know, this little visit and this little poem and the gi-normous (it's now a word ... look it up), portent of the discussion has me in a mell of a hess. I'm terribly ignorant about form poetry, can't write free verse, but not willing to give up ... sigh ... what's a body to do?

I think that form poetry should have discipline but everytime I study or research a form I find that someone has deviated and named it something else or has found basis to rely on interpretation.

When I attempt haiku, I write in the 5-7-5 count. That has caused me to toss some of my best attempts into the trash ... shame on me, no, really, shame on me. I allow myself alllllllll kinds of latitude when doing humorous poems, but I sincerely felt inside that I should honor the old masters. I should first learn in a discipline then explore other facets. I admit, for some time I would not accept anything but 5-7-5 as haiku and felt the author should just call it something else. I too, was wrong and apologize to anyone who understood so much more than I, so much earlier than I.

I will probably stick to the 5-7-5 until I write at least one poem I consider haiku (for myself). More likely, I'll resort to limerick, a form that not only allows disobedience but encourages it!

If I may, I'd also like to wish each of you a Merry Christmas.

'rum