Re: A form of poetry - "octricle"

In a message dated 10/30/2002 12.48.10 AM, Adrian (morg0072@FLINDERS.EDU.AU)
writes:

>I have decided to give a name to a form of poetry that I invented some
>time ago. It's a serious form appropriate for meditative contemplations
>of nature, very much like haiku in that respect.
>
>The name I have chosen is "Octricle". 'Oct' because it has eight lines,
>'tri' because it can be divided into three parts headed by lines 1, 3
>and 7, and 'cle' to invoke a sense of nature and serenity through
>resonance with words such as "icicle" and "trickle".
>
>What do you think?
    Niceness. Your octricle form vaguely reminds me of Chinese _ch'an_
poetry, which influenced Japanese poetry.
    Interestin' that you have creatively assimilated some Asian sensibilities
- consciously and/or sub- (well, afterall you are in Australia, right? & the
20th Century has been called the "Pacific Century"...).

>Good word?
    I can't get my brainie around it too well (the surreal image of a frozen
octopus - wearing a surgical mask - impaled on a stick keeps poppin' into my
mind's eyeball ;)

>Can you write one using your conlang (or otherwise, for that matter)?
    I shall attempt to some time sooner (or later...)

Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;)
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}

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    "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui."   (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu."             (Poetry is in play)
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