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JAlpha
05-04-2008, 08:03 PM
GET SKINNY

Write
Short
Lines
Sprawling
Down
The page

(Other than that, it’s up to you)
Here’s an examples from one of the masters of the form . . .

The Great Figure
by William Carlos Williams (http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/119)

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.

JAlpha
05-04-2008, 08:06 PM
.
SUNDAY MORNING

Two hot
cups of coffee
nestled
in bed
with words
and legs
crossing
ruffled
sheets

P.H.Delarran
05-04-2008, 08:36 PM
furtive
complaints
wind through legs
still shocked from
morning's chill
time
to
feed
the cat

Meerkat
05-10-2008, 10:01 AM
call me
not
when so moved
not
when "you've proved"
not
just to plead
not
just in need
call
instead

me

onestepp
05-14-2008, 07:46 AM
watched the
baseball
fly over
centerfield wall
into one
child's
mitt.

Teena
05-30-2008, 10:08 AM
Yellow
pencil
pours forth
words --
a graphite
foundry

HeronW
06-17-2008, 09:49 PM
Drowsing
stretching
yawn
teeth
raspy
tongue
cat
kiss.
Ewwwwww!
Tunabreath!