{"id":288,"date":"2008-03-21T01:25:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/03\/21\/poems-about-poems-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/"},"modified":"2012-05-19T01:29:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T05:29:48","slug":"poems-about-poems-limerick-and-haiku-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/03\/21\/poems-about-poems-limerick-and-haiku-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems About Poems (Limerick and Haiku Prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s limerick and haiku theme is <em>poems about poems<\/em>\u00a0or, if you prefer,\u00a0<em>poems about writing.<\/em> First, my limerick about writing haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To The Haiku<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s seventeen-syllable verse &#8212;<br \/>\nMaybe less &#8212; yes it has to be terse.<br \/>\nWhat\u00a0a challenge to do &#8212;<br \/>\nThis form called haiku,<br \/>\nWhose brevity&#8217;s blessing and curse.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a pair of haiku about poetry, the first about writing limericks, the second about poetry writing in general:<\/p>\n<p>Anapestic twists,<br \/>\nAABBA rhyme scheme.<br \/>\nAdd wit and you&#8217;re home.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas, thoughts, fragments<br \/>\nOf inspiration surge forth.<br \/>\nPoetry is born.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, it\u2019s <strong>your<\/strong> turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about <em>poetry<\/em> and\/or <em>writing in general.<\/em> When you\u2019ve posted your verse, please return\u00a0here and add a direct link to your themed poetry.<\/p>\n<p>(If you need some tips on limerick or haiku writing, I link to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/limerick-and-haiku-seeds-and-prompts\/\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">helpful sites here.<\/font><\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s limerick and haiku theme is poems about poems\u00a0or, if you prefer,\u00a0poems about writing. First, my limerick about writing haiku: Ode To The Haiku By Madeleine Begun Kane It&#8217;s seventeen-syllable verse &#8212; Maybe less &#8212; yes it has to be terse. What\u00a0a challenge to do &#8212; This form called haiku, Whose brevity&#8217;s blessing and curse. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99,104,42,103,69],"tags":[696,575,695,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13792,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/13792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}