jjhunter: Drawing of human JJ in ink tinted with blue watercolor; woman wearing glasses with arched eyebrows (JJ inked)
jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote in [community profile] poetree2012-10-15 07:29 am

Intro Post: The Art of Brevity

[personal profile] jjhunter here: I'm succumbing to temptation and Hosting this week on a subject near and dear to my heart: very short poems, here defined as poems of ten lines or fewer. (For more about me, please see my intro post from the first time I Hosted at [community profile] poetree.) I plan to primarily post my own poems as springboards for broader discussion on all brevity has to offer.

what I can say in
5-7-5: everything
or one thing concise.


To get us started, please share one or more of your favorite haikus in the comments. What makes such haiku work for you?

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Poll #11878 Kudos?
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I would like to leave kudos on this post

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Yes
4 (100.0%)

untonuggan: A leather journal (well-used) (journal)

[personal profile] untonuggan 2012-10-15 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
But I can't think of just ooooooooooooooooone. Or even think of one of the top of my head right now! Maybe later?