New Poetry Form: the Kindku
An invitation to promote kindness, positivity and inspiration through poetry
For those who don’t know me, I wear many hats. One of them is as the co-founder (with David Ellis) of Auroras & Blossoms.
A&B celebrates uplifting, family-friendly, and inspirational art through its flagship publication, the PoArtMo Anthology, which gives a voice to young and adult creatives from around the world.
(Feel free to check out our current calls for submissions here.)
A&B’s mission is to inspire creativity in people ages 13 and over. That is the reason why we write guides for authors and artists and run a series of prompts and challenges on Medium. Finally, we also invent poetry forms.
One of them is the Kindku.
Kindku: Rules
An invitation to promote kindness, positivity and inspiration through poetry, the Kindku is a short piece of seven lines. The syllable pattern is 7 / 5 / 7 / 5 / 7 / 5 / 7 or 5 / 7 / 5 / 7 / 5 / 7 / 5.
The Kindku must include seven words that are taken from one specific source — a poem, a book, a newspaper article, etc. In the case of a book or long piece of writing, those words must come from the same page.
