The Gzha is Tibetan folk poetry, a dance song.
The Gzha is:
• syllabic, written in 6 syllable lines, usually trochaic. The form ends with a spondee SS.
• written in 4 lines.
• unrhymed but parallelism is expected. The poem often employs internal consonance and assonance.
Super Sunday by Judi Van Gorder
Wearing pads and helmets
players fight for pig skin
ball. The Super Bowl is
football’s final Big Game.
Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=641
My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on this fine PMO resource.
Parallelism:
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
Also called parallel structure.
By convention, items in a series appear in parallel grammatical form:
a noun is listed with other nouns, an -ing form with other -ing forms, and so on.
My example
Seasonal Procrastination (Gzha)
Driving, walking, riding,
anxious always knowing
Christmas time is coming
I can’t wait, I must shop.
Next year I’ll do better
(promised that last Christmas.)
Seems the theme’s repeated
nearly every damn year.
© Lawrencealot – December 15, 2014
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