Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 January 2008

nano-poetry festival

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We welcome you all to the chasing-sheep nano-poetry festival ... which will now run for an unspecified period depending on levels of interest.

A definition: nano-poetry
is a genre for poems composed of fewer characters than the term 'nano-poetry'.  (i.e. 10 characters or less, including punctuation).

Whether a work is nano is easily assessed by counting the constituent characters.  Whether a work is poetry is somewhat more subjective!

So far we have the following 4 works of economic brilliance:


On the onomatopoeic howling of wolves, by Ms Signs:

woolf


On behalf of the prodigal son before his return home, Dr But Why? offers:

famly


On the disappointment of lost consonants, I comment:

issing


And on the neverendingness of the search for meaning, Badger contributes:

wh?


We invite you to contribute as many nano-poems as you can muster. No work too small :) Personally I intend leaving my computer on over night to see what the cats can compose by morning ... 

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

The shortest poem ...

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issing


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