Gillena
Cox, poet from Trinidad & Tobago, best known for writing haiku/senryu has
created a new experimental short form called the fold. Presented on line
first at Sketchbook in 2007.
Syllabic,
No set meter, No set line-length, Rhymed, Refrain
THE
FOLD takes credibility from haiku; it shares moments which are special simply
and exactly. Grasping the tools of juxtaposition and contrast, THE FOLD crafts
itself into a rhyming form of ELEVEN lines—unlike its three lined haiku
progenitor.
There is one rhyme continuing throughout the
poem, occurring at every other line: uneven lines rhyme. Lines ONE, FIVE and
ELEVEN carry the same last phrase, to form the EDGES of the FOLD. Line ONE
repeats at line FIVE which is the CREASE of the FOLD.
Since
there are no metric or syllable requirements, any template can merely be
illustrative,
so here one is:
Example Poem
Burners (Fold)
people
shed their clothes at the Burning Man;
self-expression
and anarchy rule;
a
community grows in desert sand,
freedom
expressed in artistic artifacts,
people
shed their clothes at the Burning Man;
fifty
thousand acting as they please
no big-
name acts, attendees themselves can
dance,
sing, entertain with instruments,
make-up,
costumes, magic, getting a tan;
strangers
welcome most any where;
community works at the Burning Man.
© Lawrencealot -
October 9, 2012
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