seven playful words
celebrating syllables
poetry party
six participants
disappointedly watching
companion's exit
five merrymakers
syllabify together
harmoniously
(un)expectedly
remaining quadrumvirate
inebriated
deliberately
intercommunicative
trilateralism
The above series of senryūs was inspired by this quote by Khalil Gibran:
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
d’Verse ‘Open Link Night’
I would like to share this with the d’Verse community this evening…
It’s primarily a poetic exercise, but I’m rather pleased with how it came out! For some reason, I’ve been writing a lot of senryūs this week…
David, I called you Ben as you’ve mentioned ben Alexander.
Wanted to ask about that.🙂
Sure 🙂 just check out my about page:
One other thing…
I find it difficult to maneuver your website if I don’t go through the WordPress reader.
I just can’t figure out where your latest posts are.
Also, in the reader, they don’t appear date wise. New to old. Maybe it’s a problem only I face…can’t say.
Terveen, please check out this graphic below – it has an arrow pointing to the link to all of my blog posts in chronological order. As for WordPress Reader, I cannot control that 😦
Thanks David. 🙂
Finally! That’s a little tough to find.
I guess I need huge signs. LOL!
🤗 Terveen 🤗
Unrelated to that, Terveen, would you mind my asking what your name means?
What language is it in?
❤
David
It’s an Indian name. I think its origin is in the Sanskrit language.
It means ‘guiding light’.
I couldn’t guide myself through your website though. Lol!
no, but you illuminated 💡 the problem for me! 😉
Wonderful quote!
And very clever writing, Ben! 🙂
Terveen,
Thanks 🙂
Please feel free to call me David – that’s my first name.
The word ‘ben’ just means ‘son of’ in Hebrew.
❤
David
Thanks for explaining this, David.
I appreciate it. 🙂
Left with
one
I’m not that
good
I must admit that I have been mind blown over this poem. I have learnt a great deal from such an incredible, unique and creative poem. Thank you for sharing.
Jess, I take that as a very high compliment – thank you!
❤
David
Enjoyed reading these – you have extended my personal lexicon!
I use a lot of online resources to find appropriate words 🙂
Thanks, Marion!
❤
David
Fresh and terse, yet quite the verse! peace, Jason
🥰 thanks so much, Jason 🥰
-David
Creative poem. I hadn’t read that quote before and it made me wonder if true. Seven does seem the perfect number. I was born on the 7th after all. There may be something to it. 🤔
Tricia, I’ve been thinking about it ever since I came across this quote… it’s really not obvious!
❤
David
How unique!! Well done, David, 💜🙏
💝 Diana 💝
This is wonderful … I learned a few new words in the process of reading it!!
Thanks, Helen ❤
Shabbat shalom,
David
A new vision to my life 🙂😉
🙂 Thanks! 🙂
-David
I love the way you play with words. (K)
I’m just a big 🤓, Kerfe.
❤
David
Yes.
And you managed to reduce it to three! Clever writing David.
I actually debated trying 2 too but I just couldn’t see any way to go about it…
Quite hard!
su-per-cal-i-frag-i-lis-tic-ex-pi-al-i-do-cious
If you say it loud enough, you’re sure to sound precocious! 😊
hey you know what? together, those two words are… seventeen syllables!
supercalifrag-
ilisticexpiali-
docious ~ precocious
It’s a Mary Poppins haiku 🤣
I probably won’t post this one on Twitter, if that’s okay with you 😉
Oh but I think you should…I’m sure there’s a Dick Van Dyke meme to go with it!
I’m left feeling completely inebriated….
😉 you must be a cheap drunk 😉
Brilliant! 🙂
💙 Kitty, thanks 💙
Yours,
David
A fun read. Love the word play.
🤎 Ali, thank you 🤎
Yours,
David