EXERCISE: WRITE A HAIKU IN WHICH A SISYPHIAN EFFORT IS PERFORMED.
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King Sisyphus's Last Trick (Haiku String)
Rock who had never
run away for boyish games
or adventure, now
could be measured by
his ever thinning waistline;
gone, a boy's corners.
Mother, a black sea
boulder, hated the king who
turned boy to pebble.
How quick kings forget
a mother's vengeance on fleets
of gold and soldiers,
on tricksters who turn
the effort of love to sand,
feet laughing at gods.
JEA
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María Inés Gómez (La Plata-Argentina,1967)
Hace 1 año
I messed up on the essence of a haiku (the lingering moment of epiphany in the last line). Because the form requires such syllabic precision, I have to choose between the syllables and the epiphany, which carries over into the next stanza). Maybe this does not need to be a haiku. I guess I will keep working on this. Thoughts anyone?
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