My 27th Poem

Poem Challenges

Twittle a little, Skinny then, Haiku I do

What if this was a stage curtain? (Photo art by Bear Kosik)

Most everyone is introduced to Haiku in school as far as I know. It is one of several short forms of poetry, a subcategory of the various rhetorical devices (like iambic pentameter) used by poets to demonstrate their creativity within a structure. Among them are:

• Haiku has three lines, the first with five syllables, the next with seven, and the last with five syllables. A reference to a season of the year is traditional. For example:

the decaying leaves
release the scent of new life
from a musty womb

• A Skinny has 11 lines. Lines 1 and 11 are any length (usually short) but use the exact same words in each (the words don’t need to be in the same order). Lines 2, 6, and 10 are identical. All lines except 1 and 11 are one word only. For example:

the promise held some meaning
once
sharing
words
creatively
once
caring
towards
receptivity
once
the meaning held some promise

• A Twittle has four lines (making it a quatrain) with a combined total of 100 letters and a rhyme element. Unlike Twitter, spaces and punctuation don’t count towards the 100. For example:

relationships are illusions
confusion seeking resolution
of the delusion that love
is a stain our…