Two ‘Shadorma’ poems in a ‘Cleave’
| the effort | it takes me |
| to transport myself | far enough away |
| to escape | from this stress |
| challenges | my inner |
| faithful ideals of a | child freely dancing, sure of |
| Papa’s commitment | love and full support |
How to read a cleave poem?
Simply:
- Read the left hand poem as a first discrete poem.
- Read the right hand poem as a second discrete poem.
- Read the whole as a third integrated poem.
Shadorma
- The Shadorma is a Spanish poetic form made up of a stanza of six lines with no set rhyme scheme (rhyme is optional);
- It is a syllabic poem with a meter of 3/5/3/3/7/5;
- It can have many stanzas, as long as each follows the meter.
Tanka Tuesday
For Tanka Tuesday, Colleen encourages us to incorporate synonyms of both ‘work’ and ‘play’ into syllabic poems.
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)
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And truly what an effort it takes to be a loving parent.
Enough joy makes it appear easy though! ๐
(((Hugs)))
๐๐๐ป Jules ๐๐ป๐
This cleave poem looks so effortlessโ love it!
๐๐๐ป Sarah ๐๐ป๐
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Great job combining the forms. I love how the complexity increases by doing that! I also know the cleave as a contrapuntal poem and thought of doing it, but it is, of course, more complicated!!!
โค ๐ Luanne ๐ โค ~ thanks!
Writing a cleave as a contrapuntal is an even greater accomplishment!
Much love,
David
oops! ๐ณ
I misspelled your name in my comment, but I just fixed it! Sorry!
No worries. So many people make that mistake!
Very nicely done, David.
๐ ๐๐ป Roberta ๐๐ป ๐ ~ thanks!
You did an amazing job with the prompt, my friend!
๐ค๐๐ป M Jay ๐๐ป๐ค ~ merรงi beaucoup
Endearing conjoining of the two archetypes
Father and Child
๐๐๐ป Abi ๐๐ป๐
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Wow, that’s impressive David. Bravo!!
๐๐๐ป Gwen ๐๐ป๐
Amazingly seamless fusion of two parts.
๐๐๐ป Dolly ๐๐ป๐ ~ merรงi beaucoup
The pleasure, is mine, David.
Wow! Well done, David. These two poems go together so well!
๐ค๐๐ป Colleen ๐๐ป๐ค
This cleave is so seamless! Such a delight to read!!!!
๐๐๐ป Muri ๐๐ป๐
love this David!
Great Job with my favorite the Cleave poem I learned from you.. โฃ๏ธ
And therein lies the question.
I used to live to eat and know i eat to live TG!
The life thing is a great one.. balance is the key~!
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๐๐๐ป Cindy ๐๐ป๐ ~ thank you so much; I agree!
You’re so welcome David!!! โฃ๏ธ