Quick Admin Correction re: 'Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges 1 & 2' Deadline

[jjhunter]

The post originally read 'Friday, March 30th' as the deadline, which was in error; the deadline for both challenges is this Friday, March 23rd, 11:59PM EST.

Corrected post with full contest details here; remember, the winner of each challenge receives their choice of their 15 Dreamwidth points or a personal haiku written just for them. Unless specified as ineligible on the contest post, anyone (including guests to the comm from within or outside Dreamwidth) is eligible to win, and even those ineligible to win are still encouraged to participate just for fun.

Go forth and write poems & comments!

The Etheree

[ariestess]

Today, I thought I'd introduce you to another of my favorite poem forms, the etheree.

And I will just say this now: Sometimes, when I'm not paying attention, I'll call this the Etheridge poem, because of the similarity of the names. Crazy, I know, but there you go. *g*

The basic format is a 10-line poem with increasing syllables [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. You can also do these in reverse [10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1], or do a longer poem of multiple stanzas of the etheree, even alternating the forward and reverse versions.

I've only written one so far, so I don't know that any sort of rhyming will work for this format, but give it a shot if you want!


"present"

bow
askew,
torn paper
litters the floor.
forgotten so soon,
left like so much rubbish.
no one cares how long it took
to find the perfect paper shell.
they strip it away in a mad rush
to reveal the treasure hidden within.

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