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
xaxxThe poem is written traditionally like an epigram, so it is sometimes a clever or witty poem.”
Another Lovely Day 
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