reflections
of autumn tumbling
earth and rust
diluted
in ripples of a river
swept under a bridge
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
Image courtesy of Bastet
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P Shadorma & Beyond – Full Circle – October 15, 2016
Today Bastet has told us about the shadorma: where it comes from, its form and content. It’s believed to have come from Spain as a European alternative to the Japanese haiku. It is similar to a haiku in the sense that it is brief: a 6 line poem with a syllable count of 3 – 5 – 3 – 3 – 7 – 5. There are also variations on the form, such as the Shadorma Summation, a poem with a shadorma that rounds it up; chained or linked shadorma; and shadorma to end a piece of prose, similar to the haibun.
Recently, one of the contributors at MLMM commented that she usually only writes a one line shadorma instead of a multi stanza shadorma: as we think of the shadorma as being a Spanish variation of the haiku, this would be the logical way to write the poem, trying to convey meaning in six lines without elaborating into several stanzas.
Bastet has asked us to create shadorma following the rules of the classical haiku (with the shadorma structure, of course!) and the kigo ‘autumn colours’.
Wonderful shadorma ala haiku.
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Nicely done Kim beautiful imagery!
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Thank you, Georgia! I’m still in the mood to write about autumn but I think I might have enough of it soon – you can only write so much and it does come round every year!
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True … here the autumn has really only just begun (up until last week it was still in the high twenties!
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Beautiful it is true that autumn is here and it seems to stay around for length of time it is suppose to. But the photo is so wonderful and your words give it meaning. ❤ ❤ Kat
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Thanks, Kat! Hope your weekend is a good one! Kim xx
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I’ve been loving your Autumn offerings – this shadorma is no exception
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Thank you, Candy!
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Such brilliant expression (ism). 🌹
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Thank you!
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