Elfchen poem #1
brain feels exhausted pulses heavily within dissolves into viscous paste glob
Elfchen poem #2
brain feels electrified sparks across synapses explodes with original verses blog
W3 weekly poetry prompt
For this week’s W3 poetry prompt, Sadje encourages us to:
- Write an ‘elfchen’ poem;
- Extra challenge: write a second elfchen poem, which opposes the first one.
Elfchen poetic form
An elevenie (German: elfchen) is a short poem with a given pattern. It contains eleven words which are arranged in a specified order over five rows. Each row has a requirement that can vary.
The typical structure of an elfchen is as follows:
| ROW NUMBER | WORDS IN ROW | ROW CONTENT |
| 1 | 1 | A thought, an object, a color, a smell or the like |
| 2 | 2 | What does the word from the first row do? |
| 3 | 3 | Where or how is the word of row 1? |
| 4 | 4 | What do you mean? |
| 5 | 1 | Conclusion: What is the outcome? |
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!
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My brain is a glob right now, wonder if I will be able to blog today! How do you keep pace with reading so many posts?
As always…๐๐ผโค๏ธ
other aspects of my life suffer for it, Punam… mainly sleep… and sometimes other important things…
Same here, David. Sometimes I feel guilty about posting.
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I can relate to both poems, depending on the day. Nicely done!
โค๏ธ๐๐ป Sarah ๐๐ปโค๏ธ ~ thanks!
Loved the glob to the blog! Very creative.
๐ ๐๐ป Heather ๐๐ป ๐
Ha! Glob or blog… I’ve been globbing, no viscous verse of late.
๐๐๐ป Deanna ๐๐ป๐ ~ hahaha!
I’ve definitely worked with people who had viscous paste globs for brains…
sometimes MY brain feels like that! ๐ง
Interesting form, and your mastery of it is impressive, David.
๐๐๐ป Dolly ๐๐ป๐ ~ thanks; but I’m mostly just a master of disaster ๐
LOL The Chofetz Chaim implored us to refrain from self-deprecation.
๐ธ Dolly ๐ธ
Yes definitely the two hemispheres in one โglobeโ๐
โค๏ธ๐๐ป Ange ๐๐ปโค๏ธ ~ exactly