#zipodes

[bettyweir]

the lore for this line is so weirdly convuluted. they UNcensored it, its included in the censored diepod ep but not the censored vers. im assuming to pad out run time to get it back to 22 mins. they added an extra hallway scene for no reason as well in disneys diepod.

speaking of strange hey rory.

[zip-odes]

Congratulations to our Week 1 ZipOde Winners! Write your own at http://wlrn.org/write-ode-your-zip-code! 

[ziblot]

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[suarezburgosa]

Role: Zipode Poet for O, Miami 2019 Festival

[theotherpages]

2020 NPM #4: Haiku by Etheridge Knight

Looking back at past years, we haven’t talked much about short forms in poetry. Perhaps the best known short form is the Japanese Haiku, which consists of seventeen syllables in a 5/7/5 pattern. 

Nelson (Howard) Miller likes the Americanized version of Haiku, sometimes referred to as a Lune,  popularized by poet Robert Kelly. It follows a 5/3/5 pattern of syllables. There are essentially no other rules.  Jack Collum also developed a form of Lune based on word count rather than syllable count with a 3/5/3 pattern.

Not to be outdone, our local O Miami Poetry Festival, held throughout the first three weeks of April, sponsors a ZipOde poetry contest, with a five-line haiku with the number of words following the digits in your postal code. For example, if you live in 43614 it would be 4/3/6/1/4/ words. For those of you in Canada and elsewhere with Alphanumeric postal codes, sorry, I don’t know how you play this game.

Anyway, back to Mississippi poet Etheridge Knight, and his poem, Haiku. There is an extensive Biography on the Poetry Magazine website that I can’t summarize easily, other than to say that, like many poets, his was a difficult, often painful life. Etheridge, however, turned his suffering into a an effective voice for the disadvantaged.Following that analogy in a general sense, his haiku poem is, in itself, a commentary on how to summarize big concepts in small spaces. If you get a chance, click on the link above, scroll down past his biography, and read some of his more typical poems. But for now:

The falling snow flakes 

Cannot blunt the hard aches nor 

Match the steel stillness.

Or,

To write a blues song 

is to regiment riots 

and pluck gems from graves.

Or,

Making jazz swing in 

Seventeen syllables AIN’T 

No square poet’s job.

Are representative excerpts from his poem. While the form itself is compact, it lends itself to many applications. If you start doing it (in the brief Lune form especially) you find yourself using it to encapsulate both the big profound thoughts, and the everyday. There’s an imagist’s conciseness to the poetry that results.

I’ll mention one more of these short forms, also Japanese in origin: the Tanka. It’s syllable pattern is 5/7/5/7/7, and it is generally designed to give a more complete image than the shorter Haiku.

Knight was married for several years to Sonia Sanchez, also a poet and originally from Alabama, who was a student of Louise Bogan (the first woman to be appointed the U.S. Poet Laureate).  Here is a series of short poems by her, titled Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman.

Let’s make today’s essay a call for experimentation. Go ahead and post a Lune or a Haiku as commentary.

--Steve Spanoudis

[jezemaya]

12871

closed hallways mark street names

because school’s the only place to go

in a town half the size

of your first name.

i never knew love here,

having found warmth outside

shifting “city” limits,

but i never wanted to leave.

not until now.

[poet-summerbreeze]

Ode to Miami Beach's Zip Code

3 3 1 3 9

3 Walking, running, playing. 3 Pooches and hounds, 1 Everywhere! 3 Four legs gleefully 9 trotting after two / parading up and down Collins Avenue.

[ksagedog7680]

98112

gentle warmth of steam rising from early morning coffees sleepy hellos and friendly smiles to those around we form a family.

[jettycat]

33309

gun shots fired

police sirens blare

bodies lay prone

mothers scream and cry, why you shoot my baby

Hope Gold

[bettyweir]

Censored moments i need to compile:

Doug Falcon Hawks 'Transformer Two Bad' + 'Probed'

Debbie Dazzle choking out Erica in the girls bathroom

Diepods 'Zipod' + Erica and rory discussing how to kill Nick Ashley + 'NickRolled'

I THINK those are all the moments I missed in season ones original 'Censored Moments' comp

[zip-odes]

Congratulations to our Week 1 ZipOde Winners! Write your own at http://wlrn.org/write-ode-your-zip-code! 

[jricky1016-blog]

Odes to Miami

3  Hot Diverse Paradise

3  filled with salsa

1 Miami

6 To whom my heart belies to

6 and where my soul sleeps tight

[sungrl62-blog]

Hollywood

Hollywood not the west coast one 0 ! earthquake free serendipity

[poet-summerbreeze]

Ode to Miami Beach's Zipcode

3 3 1 3 9

3 Italy. France. Mexico. / 3 Dine in or 1 order 3 to go. / A 9 variable feast of global cuisines / located right next door.

[zip-odes]

Congratulations to our Week 4 Winners! Come see all of our winners read their ZipOdes at Vizcaya on April 25! 

[writing-on-fleek-blog]

Zip Ode 33705

Past the Tropicana 

It’s all ghetto

But anything further north of the Tropicana

…

Is a little bit better.