Apr 14, 2016 NaPoWriMo, Original Poetry, San San

Truth and Lies – The Outlier
©April 14th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

Dear child, if called on to prevaricate
Think straight, and try to not be prodigal
Dwell deeply on the truth (intensively).

For you, dear child, will find it’s not too late
To dismiss what’s mythological.
Your doubts, when you think straight, will disappear.

With liars, deal not apprehensively.
Dwell deeply on the truth – there is no fear.

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The Day 14 prompt for NaPoWriMo deals with a form I’ve never heard of, called the san san, and it was difficult at first.  Then, I did something I’ve never done before:  I simply came up with the end rhymes, and wrote the poem around them.  It came fairly easily this way.
Here’s the prompt that was provided:

And last but not least, our (optional) prompt! Today’s prompt comes to us from TJ Kearney, who invites us to try a seven (the site corrected it later to eight!)-line poem called a san san, which means “three three” in Chinese (It’s also a term of art in the game Go). The san san has some things in common with the tritina, including repetition and rhyme. In particular, the san san repeats, three times, each of three terms or images. The seven (eight) lines rhyme in the pattern a-b-c-a-b-d-c-d.

 

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