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Barbara Writes
Barbara Writes
Feb 17, 2018 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)
This poem is part of the workshop:

Sunku: beyond rhyme and rhythm, search for new structures in short form

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Sunku 6 Workshop

Roast fest
Burning bricks
And fire bombs

Niceness
Been kicked out
Pissed off in the house
__
I’m like
A strange bird
Caught in the wind

About This Poem

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: United States, USA

Favorite Poets: Billy Collins, Shakespeare, , Emily Dickinson, , , Whitman, Jess Tapper

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Geezer

Geezer

7 years 4 months ago

I'm thinking...

that Sunku is kind of like Haiku with fewer restrictions!
I got the feel of war -torn lands from this one!
I liked the separation of the last stanza from the rest.
It gave it all the more feeling of aloneness!

Barbara Writes

Barbara Writes

7 years 4 months ago

Thanks you are right

And On point with your description. I get the feel that SunKu is haiku, senyru and it’s where I write from. My objective in the workshop is get the structural design Irzi shooting is for. I’ve havent mastered traditional poetry in all it many forms. I realize my challenge is as Jess said, I don’t speak the language lol. So I guess my dyslexic nature crosses over into poetry. I just don’t get it and when I do I forget if I don’t get the basic formula for writing any poetry form down. Once down I can write without being tied to the syllabi count, meter etc.

IRiz

IRiz

7 years 4 months ago

Way more condensed poem!

Hello, Barbara.
Thank you for your great Sunku.
It created an image of destroyed town.
Lost wind wanders above the ruins.
Grief and smoke of recent fires make it so dense and heavy that it catches souls in it.
That is how a strange bird of your soul is caught.
Time stopped when it happened.

Tell me if I am way off. It is possible.

I like the way the sounds in your poem form patterns.

Roast fest rhymes to niceness
The middle has ou sounds.

I like how sounds of

burning bricks
bombs

connect to

bird
wind

Barbara Writes

Barbara Writes

7 years 4 months ago

You are on point

I love writing how I feel and making it pop with metaphors. I’m not educated in Poetry. what I know I learned here at Neopoet since 2008. So I’m here in your awesome workshop to master this style as I’ve done haiku, senyru, tanka, couplets and Renga.