"Hay(na)Ku" is a form invented by Eileen Tabios in 2005. There is an anthology of the work, published the same year.
Professor Bernstein maintain's a web page desribing the form here.
He created this very clever description of its word-per-line structure:
Form
Is One
Then Two Three
My own contribution to the form is below:
I
resign myself
to the inevitable.
She*
is never
going to return.
In
her memory
I dedicate this
Meme: Hay-na-ku Thursday.
It stands
Alone.
February 9, 2006
There's no compulsion, but if you do decide to participate, leave a link to your entry in the comments here at Snoozelets so I can read your work. This is a very new poetic form and variations, such as the reverse word form order, are still being created. You, too, could pioneer something new!
Professor Bernstein maintain's a web page desribing the form here.
He created this very clever description of its word-per-line structure:
Form
Is One
Then Two Three
My own contribution to the form is below:
I
resign myself
to the inevitable.
She*
is never
going to return.
In
her memory
I dedicate this
Meme: Hay-na-ku Thursday.
It stands
Alone.
February 9, 2006
There's no compulsion, but if you do decide to participate, leave a link to your entry in the comments here at Snoozelets so I can read your work. This is a very new poetic form and variations, such as the reverse word form order, are still being created. You, too, could pioneer something new!
