Icy winds bite
Birds’ bound flight south
Alight in warmthNightingales sing
Such tunes spring forth
Some things spell life
©Vivian Zems
(#Than Bauk)
The Than Bauk form is a three-line poem with four syllables each, featuring rhymes in kind of a step pattern like this- (a climbing pattern):
x x x R
x x R x
x R x x
Smell The Coffee 
December 10, 2017 at 8:33 am
Gorgeous contrasts in the first than bauk, Viv, of the Icy winds and the birds alight in warmth, and I like the sounds in the second one.
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December 10, 2017 at 8:59 pm
Thanks, Kim! An odd fussy form, I think. 🙂
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December 10, 2017 at 10:15 pm
😊
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December 10, 2017 at 3:50 pm
Yes… these sound great. Looking ahead to spring already after our first snow 🙂
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December 10, 2017 at 4:40 pm
We are soon past that turning point… love the thought of spring
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December 10, 2017 at 8:17 pm
Thanks :)…me too!
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December 10, 2017 at 7:29 pm
I’ll stick with easier forms, but I like your poem 😊💛
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December 10, 2017 at 8:15 pm
This form was very very hard. I’m not sure I’ll be doing it again!
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December 11, 2017 at 5:10 am
I like this, Vivian. Some of those birds stop for winter here along the Texas Gulf Coast. The mocking birds raise their young here, the nightingales flit around the flowering trees in the spring.
The form was fun but yes, a little hard. I had it wrong the first time and did it over.
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December 11, 2017 at 7:48 am
That’s lovely, watching nature at work. I’m not so sure about this form- I feel it destroys the flow and beauty of the words.😯
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December 12, 2017 at 9:24 pm
Gorgeous!❤️
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December 14, 2017 at 7:40 am
Thanks, Sanaa!
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