This week’s poetry form for the Be Inspired Weekly Writing Challenge is a Monoku.
A Monoku is a senryu/haiku with a slight enigmatic/ambiguous flavour, written in its earlier Japanese form as a one liner. A ceaesura (pause) may be appropriate, dictated by sense or speech rhythm,and usually very little punctuation. Seveteen syllables or less. They may also be in a sequence form.
Here is my interpretation, I hope you enjoy.
Thanks for reading.
Mel
Haunting and intriguing – I love it!
Thank you. It reflects my mood! I wasn’t going to enter this week, because my thoughts are a little dark and then I realised I could work with it 🙂
My writing however, has suffered because of it. I’m not sure how much I can use from today. So I’ve given myself the night off and I’m going back to it with a fresh mind tomorrow.
Thanks for commenting. I value your input.
I’m sure a night off to refresh your mind will do you and your writing the world of good 🙂
Thanks, Callum. I’m sure it will too 🙂
Its great. It gets you right in there, allowing the reader to conjure up their own reality from it.
Thanks, Irene. I really appreciate that 🙂
Short but powerful, great word choice 🙂
Thanks, Mishka. I appreciate you taking the time to comment and I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Impressive! I so liked your attempt! Mel, I think the image compliments the mood described and I think you conveyed a more deep thought then what the words say. Thank you for your participation! Regards
Thank you, I’m so glad you like it 🙂
You’re welcome Mel, I enjoyed it! 🙂
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Wonderful moment, I can almost hear the scratch and smell the sulphur. 🙂
Thanks, Brenda. I’m glad it spoke to you. I think sometimes we surprise ourselves and there’s a whole story in there somewhere 🙂
Sometimes the fewer the words, the more they trigger a bond in the reader, who gets to contribute some imagination. 🙂
I agree, and I’m so glad I began this journey into the unknown! I don’t normally write poetry, but I’ve participated a few times now and I’m hooked!
Me, too. I hadn’t written much poetry in years before I started blogging. I always loved poetry, though. 🙂
There are some great examples on WordPress, and I feel blessed that I’m able to share and learn with my peers 🙂
Me, too. 🙂
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