Daily Archives: April 15, 2013

Un-Love Poem

15 Monday Apr 2013

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An un-love poem isn’t a poem of hate, exactly — that might be a bit too shrill or boring. It’s more like a poem of sarcastic dislike. This is a good time to get in a good dig at people who chew with their mouth open, or always take the last oreo. If there’s no person you feel comfortable un-loving, maybe there’s a phenomenon? Like squirrels that eat your tomatoes.

 

I love thee,

as the dog loves the flea,

as the horse loves the tick,

you make me sick!

 

© Un-Love Poem 15.04.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

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Tanka

15 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by in Heartbreak, Poetry

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Today’s  challenge is to write a tanka. This, like the “American” cinquain, is a poem based on syllables, with the pattern being 5-7-5-7-7. They work best when those final two 7-syllable lines contain a sort of turn or surprise that the first three lines might not wholly anticipate. You can string a bunch of them together to make a multi-stanza poem, or just write one!

 

Gazing in your eyes,

memories softly playing,

gently I whisper,

you have the key to my heart,

alas… I have changed the locks.

 

Tanka 15.04.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

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Pantun

15 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by in Heartbreak, Longing & Waiting, Loss, Love, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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The pantun is a traditional Malay form, a style of which was later adapted into French and then English as the pantoum. A pantun consists of rhymed quatrains (abab), with 8-12 syllables per line. The first two lines of each quatrain aren’t meant to have a formal, logical link to the second two lines, although the two halves of each quatrain are supposed to have an imaginative or imagistic connection.

English: A snowdrop. Svenska: En snödroppe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love you

but I let you go

I see through

the winter’s snow

 

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

15.04.2013

English: A snowdrop. Svenska: En snödroppe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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