Friday, March 25, 2022

Poetry Friday: It's Greek Japanese to Me (Ekphrastic Dodoitsu)

Creating together--it's our 2022 poetry theme. For March, we're exploring the Japanese form of dodoitsu, which is a four line poem that's syllable-based, using a 7-7-7-5 pattern. Thematically, the form often talks of love or work, using a comic twist to leaven its commentary. 

To make this challenge more communal, we each donated to a pool of off-beat photos, and wrote in response to as many of them as we wished.  (That's the ekphrastic part-- a Greek word describing "a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.") 

I wrote two dodoitsu, one mentioning work, and both about love. 


(thanks to Mary Lee Hahn for the image)



(thanks to Liz Garton Scanlon for the image)




More wonderfully wry and vivid dodoitsu here: 

Kelly

Poetry Friday is hosted today by The Poem Farm. 



13 comments:

  1. What a delight to learn all about and read so many examples of this for today. Your love poems could not be more perfectly match-made to their poems! Thank you for the game recommendation...I ordered it on ebay and can't wait to play! Happy Poetry Friday! xo

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  2. omg...the word play in these! so fun! Definitely need to get The Nevermores into this sandbox!

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  3. AH! What a perfect foil to "nothing rhymes with orange." And I'm just snickering at that orthodontist. Hee. Nothing like taking your work home.

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  4. I love punny poems and the use of cemented her is brilliant. The last two lines of the orange poem are perfect.

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  5. These are wonderful. The first one's so funny, and the second one's both clever but also (for me) a bit...melancholy? Yearning?

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  6. I do love what you & everyone has created from that brick wall. If you find enough, you would have a book! The 'juicy better half" made me smile. These are fun to write!

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  7. I loved your brick wall poem! It made me laugh out loud.

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  8. Love them both! I KNEW you would nail the humor...with class. (I'm tickled at all the takes on that brick wall!!)

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  9. Ditto Mary Lee's opener... love them both. Can't choose a favorite. Thanks for sharing.

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  10. I love the poems on top of the images! We do seek our juicy better halves, for crooked and for straight.

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  11. What rhymes with orange? Ha ha ha ha ha!!
    These are so funny and word perfect, Sara -- both of these!

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  12. These are both delightful! I love seeing different poetic takes on the same photos. Thanks for sharing them with us.

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  13. I can feel and hear the laughter emerging from that brick wall, and I hope the "better" halves meet up… thanks for the smiles!

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