my burmese than-bauk

with haiku line

yet with fine change

makes mine than-bauk

~ sld

 

Jason A. Muckley, Poems for Warriors, recommends “a simple and fun, epigram-like poetic form to try your hand at during National Poetry Month… the Burmese Than-bauk.” His poem, Everywhere, can be found here.

“The Than-bauk is a Burmese poetic form with simple rules:
– Three-line poem (Tercet), but you can string together multiple stanzas to form a longer poem
– Four syllables per line
– The final syllable of the first line rhymes with the third syllable of the second line and second syllable of the third line.

Here’s a visual representation of rhyming syllables for each line:

xxxa
xxax
xaxx

The poem is written traditionally like an epigram, so it is sometimes a clever or witty poem.”

 

[please] repeat after me

repeat after me

with the loudest voice in your

head, “I am enough!”

~ sld

1 • 12 • 19

rising to bloom still

more remains below surface

obscured memories

~ sld

from the shore

from the shore we see

the edge    what lies beyond it

we can imagine

~ sld

fairy waves

lines of silk fairy
waves caress the shore, ripple
backwards in delight
~ sld

may it always be so

waking to birdsong,
sea breeze, gold light in the pines,
breathing pure freshness
~sld

chapter’s end

with the locking of
the door, a chapter ends. I
breathe and turn the page

~ sld

profusion

pretty light tonight

brightens a profusion, now

snow-white with blossoms

~ sld

a different kind of warm

snow falls outside the

study window, a warming,

fluffy, white welcome home

~ sld

lush

lush greenness covers
every inch, ferns, mossy trunks,
made vivid by rain

~ sld