Happy Good Friday!!!!!!
It’s really nice to have a long weekend, I hope you all have fantastic things planned for this holiday.
I’d like to say thank you to those of you who shared, liked, commented and/or retweeted the link to my last post… it feels good to know you enjoy reading my work.
I’ve spent so much time in the past couple of weeks composing Tanka’s and Haiku’s, I almost forgot I had other forms of poetry to delve into.
Today, I’ve tried to write a tyburn poem, which I found challenging. I feel it’s quite imperfect, but I promised to always share regardless of what I think…
Voiceless
Joyless
Pointless
Weightless
The pain made her voiceless, heart joyless
Life, now pointless amidst weightless words
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** Photo credit – Send Your Flower.
ameena's musings 
You seem to be getting better with your writing..keep it up
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thank you Xia, that means a lot to me 🙂
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Nice poem! I’ve never heard of that style before.
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Thanks Sumyanna…
if you google ‘tyburn poem’, you’ll get more info on that poetry type 🙂
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Oh thank you so much! I’m always on the lookout for learning something new. Beautiful!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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I had never heard of it before either; but I really like it. My poetry is not a very developed talent so I am hoping to get some inspiration from Amina’s work. Here words are beautiful and heartfelt!
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I hope I’ll be able to inspire you…thank you for your kind words….I really appreciate it 🙂
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I like the freedom I find in the rules of certain forms of poetry . Kind of strange, freedom and rules being together like that; but it’s what I feel when I read your haiku or tanka.
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I, too, had never heard of a Tyburn poem before. The only poetry that I really enjoy are limericks though. I have a really difficult time understanding just what the heck a person is really saying in poetry. I keep trying though and yours are more easily understood than some I have seen lately.
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Ah oddly enough I’ve never tried writing a limerick (yet)…
The thing with poetry is you sometimes have to read it from the perspective of the writer (which is why you might sometimes not understand the message the writer is trying to pass)… I’m glad you’ve been able to understand mine though 🙂
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I never thought of it that way…”reading from the perspective of the writer”. It almost makes me feel like I might actually understand what a few people have to say through their poetry if I just had a clue who they are. thanks for that thought.
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You’re very welcome 🙂
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Nice to be here. I am not into Hiaku and Tanka. How do I get into it?
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A haiku is a three line poem… The first line has 5 syllables, second line has 7 syllables and the third line has 5 syllables.
A tanka on the other hand is a five line poem… First three lines have the same syllables as a haiku (5-7-5) and the last two lines have 7 syllables each.
You can check out my haiku and tanka series
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Thanks for the explanation Amina!
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Voice-full
Joy-full
Point-full
Weight-full
The gain made me voice-full, heartful
Life ever point-full midst weight full words!
How is this Amina?
N V Subbaraman
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This is a good first attempt but you’re supposed to use the first four words in the last two lines… You need to swop ‘heart full’ in your fifth line with ‘joyful’
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Sorry it is joy-full in the fifth line- keying in mistake. Thanks.
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You’re welcome 🙂
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