#imagist

For Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 54, Imagist Poetry, Robbie has invited us to write an imagist poem using a syllabic form. Photo: Gary Tate (western) Tiger Snake, up to 2 metres, highly venomous. We had a small one in the yard recently, and there’s a big one at the local reserve. Form: Tanka (5-7-5-7-7) golden belly snakesleek banded olive tigerhiding in dry grasssure killer lightening…

A Greek man, naked, throwing a discus The panting tongue of a scarlet hibiscus A porch-light meeting of moth A.A.– whirring tales of drunken paths, and of the nights they’ve lost their way –Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post See more epigrams by Sarah Torribio HERE

I have eaten the plums

That were in

The icebox

And which

You were probably

Saving

For breakfast

Forgive me

They were delicious

So sweet

And so cold  

This poem immediately puts an image of eating plums and feeling sorry but not too much because they were so good. Pretty simple but still you can see the image and feeling so clearly. This is an example of Imagism poems that are very simple and give a clear concreate image of what’s happening. Even with the clarity there is still some poems, like some writing, which is not so simple to understand. With writing amongst many arts, it’s all about interpretation but I believe that imagism makes that much easier to understand a mental image of whatever feeling or idea they're trying to convey.

And the nights are not full enough

And life slips by like a field mouse

Not shaking the grass."

-Ezra Pound

My graphics skills weren't what they've since become, but I still like some of the images the words bring up in the whispering wobbles of my inner quirk ... ;)