September 24, 2005
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Two BRIK poems
For those of you who do not know, a BRIK is a modern poetry form which requires the poem to be typed in courier font (so it looks like a rectangle) and each poem should be 13 lines, each line being 22 characters across. Also, if you choose to title the poem, the form also requires the title to be 22 characters. Here are two new ones I have written.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a BRIK poem and report back. Happy writing.
And The Dust Cries Out
Ripping her small womb
was just the beginning
It was only a pittance
of the full charge she
was to pay You desired
everything that wasn’t
hers to give Too young
to decide so you chose
Mirror says monster so
you smash it to pieces
and the shards testify
so you sweep them away
The dust cries unclean
Mocha-Choca Latte YaYa
It is almost delicious
I can nearly taste the
timbre of his voice as
he speaks It is packed
with flavor hearty and
satisfying like a rich
espresso foaming in my
cup but his singing oh
his singing it is lava
hot molten flowing and
with blistering energy
scorches the landscape
with searing intensity
Comments (2)
Hi, I’m still learning formal poetry structures. BRIK poems are new to me. Is there any sort of rhyming or meter schemes here? Or are we simply concerned with the character lengths? I like yours, very creative.
Okay… haven’t written any poetry in years or heard of BRIK… but what the hell… here goes…
On Painting My Habitat
One rung after another
Asian ladybugs bite me
Still there is more to
do and there’s nothing
that can stop time now
The squirrels sounding
the alarm mockingly at
my head But still I go
clutching my brush and
dragging my pail along
Up here my radio sings
beyond my ears yet I’m
pretending that I hear