Sangeetha & David’s new poetry project
Once upon a time, two poets who’d never met in person spontaneously began writing verses back and forth to one another over the Internet. Their first poetry project took them some nine months: a 100 verse Hyakuin.
Once they’d completed their oeuvre, the two decided to continue their creative journey together; and Sangeetha came up with a fun new idea, which David loved – to explore different poetic forms together, working through the Alphabet from ‘A’ to ‘Z’.
Every week, for twenty-six weeks beginning in January of the year 2022, they would take turns selecting poetic forms beginning with the letter corresponding to that particular week (1=A, 2=B, etc., etc.) and write poems to one another using that form.
David suggested they call their new project ‘Form verses creativity’, and so it began.
U for Ukiah
Sangeetha’s Ukiah
what we lose we find again
in another when
with eyes closed and hearts open
David’s Ukiah
we lose ourselves, eyes open
hearts healed, once broken
embraced by our soul-chosen
Ukiah?
- tristich (three lines)
- rhyming
- lines 1 & 3: seven syllables
- line 2: five syllables
Sangeetha & David’s ‘Form verses creativity’
- The Alouette
- The Balance
- The Candlelight
- The Dizain
- The Etheree
- The Florette
- The Ghazal
- The Hexaduad
- The Italian octave
- The Jue Ju
- The Kimo
- The Limerick
- The Marianne
- The Nocturna
- The Ottava Rima
- The Pathya Vat
- The Quintilla
- The Retrac
- The Sijo
- The Tritina
- The Ukiah
- The Verso-Rhyme
- The Waltz Wave
- X (wildcard): The Lira
- The YaDu
- The Zejel
Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
Splendid ๐๐ซ
โค D. A. โค ~ thank you!
Sounds like a call and response poem when read together!!
โค Thanks, Muri โค
Oh so beautiful! What a talented pair. ๐
๐ Terveen ๐
So uplifting and reassuring
๐๐ Anca ๐๐
Complement each other beautifully.
๐ Dolly ๐
Love this!
โค thanks, Kelley โค
Take care,
David
Interesting work “oeuvre” had to look it up! Good word for a prompt, anyone?
Yeah – it’s a fun word, Myrna ๐
All the best,
David