Creativity Verses Form ~ Ya Hoo

David  of The Skeptic’s Kaddish and Sangeetha of Mindfills 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 new poetry projects.

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 ‘Y’, David selected the ‘Ya Hoo’ form and the keyword ‘Yes’.

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Y: Ya Hoo

David’s Ya Hoo

You have my 'Yes.'
We two press on.
It's less new now-
But fits! Wow, dawn
somehow hits us both; and connections get drawn.

Sangeetha’s Ya Hoo

One word that wins
my fun princess...
she grins running
to me, impressed,
as indeed I indulge, concede, and say Yes! 

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Ya Hoo?

• Stanzaic: 1 to 3 stanzas, each with five lines;
• Syllabic:
  • Each of the first four lines have four syllables;
  • The last line has either 5, 7, 9 or 11 syllables;
• Rhyming: crisscrossing internal staircase rhymes as follows:

a.O.O.b
O.a.b.c
d.b.a.e
O.d.e.c
O.e.d—.c

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
• V ~ Violette Vintage
• W~ Whyquain Wisdom
• X ~ Eightette Excuse
• Y ~ Ya Hoo Yes

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