Instead I have my response to Mary Lee's challenge to our group of INKLINGS this month.
We are taking it in whatever way it works, and my version is "Explain a poetry form (ode, elegy, sonnet, limerick, etc) using that form." Me being me, it got a little hairier and more complex even than that. (I felt very seen reading this quote yesterday in the NYT from their two-time Pulitzer winner for criticism, Wesley Morris: “I can be paralyzed by my glut of ideas,” he said, “which often means I wait to write things until the last minute.”)
So here, without further ado about nothing, is my
In case you have not met a definito before, it is my own invention, a form the rules of which I have now resoundingly broken: the definito is a free verse poem of 8-12 lines (aimed at readers 8-12 years old) that highlights wordplay as it demonstrates the meaning of a less common word, which always ends the poem.
But hey--you make it, you break it!
I believe this month's offerings will be even more varied than usual, and I believe you will love every one. Start with Catherine's at Reading to the Core, as she is our hostess with the mostess this week. Then pop around and enjoy all the INKLINGS have to offer.
Mary Lee Hahn @ A(nother) Year of Reading
Molly Hogan @ Nix the Comfort Zone
Linda Mitchell @ A Word Edgewise
Margaret Simon @ Reflections on the Teche
