Creativity Verses Form ~ ukiah

David  of The Skeptic’s Kaddish and I began a fun poetry partnership in April. We celebrated writing together a 100 verse renga, The Hyakuin  And within days, decided we would absolutely love to continue our writing collaboration and what has grown to be a warm friendship with a new poetry project.

We decided to explore poetry forms. A to Z. Each week one of us chooses a poetry form the other responds to. We completed our first series Form verses creativity in June ’22. And we’re now on to the next set of poetry forms A to Z ~ Creativity Verses Form. We added a little twist for version2.0, with a key word starting with the same letter.

For ‘U’, David selected the ‘Ukiah’ form and the keyword ‘Underwear’.

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U: Ukiah

David’s Ukiah

I can't find my underwear...
Neither here nor there!
Dear friend, could we share your pair?

Sangeetha’s Ukiah

Underwear ~ Recycle! Reuse!
But please don't refuse
And at the waist... not too loose!

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Ukiah (Reverse Haiku)?

• A tristich: three lines;
• Monorhyme: all lines rhyme;
• Syllabic:
  • L1 and L3 contain 7 syllables;
  • L2 contains 5 syllables.

Read all the poems in our series ~ Creativity Verses Form where we explore poetry forms

• A ~ Alliterisen Alternatives
• B ~ Bragi Books
• C ~ Cadae Crisis
• D~ Dodoitsu Desire
• E ~ Emmet Elves
• F~ Fold Friend
• G~ Golda Gravity
• H~ Harrisham Hope
• I ~ Inverted Refrain Imagination
• J ~ Jram Jubilee
• K ~ Kōel Kismet
• L ~ Lai Love
• M ~ Monometric Motivation
• N ~ Novo Otto Night
• O ~ Ovillejo Origins
• P ~ Purely Hopeful Poetry
• Q ~ Quatern Quiet
• R ~ Raay Roots
• S ~ Septanelle Smiles
• T ~ Trianglet Time
• U ~ Ukiah Underwear

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