Sunku: beyond rhyme and rhythm, search for new structures in short form
Description: Short form appeals to a reader's imagination and goes across cultural barriers.
It disciplines the poet and requires the most precise choice of words in the same time leaving a good degree of pleasant ambiguity.
How to use a poetic toolbox – personification, extended metaphor, allusions, alliteration, repetition, rhyme, meter – in short form? Without a doubt it is a difficult question, however, it is well recognized that structure and patterns make a short poem esthetically pleasing.
I offer to your attention Sunku as a way to structure a short poem. In Sunku there are three stanzas, each consists of three lines with 2-3-4 syllabi per line. The level of connection between stanzas is up to a poet to decide.
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Leader: IRiz and Weirdelf
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Objectives: to try the new form and see how it delivers your ideas and feelings. To see how other poetic tools complement the form.
Level of expertise: Open to all
Subject matter: testing Sunku a new structured short form