Oh, I had a good time looking through all those links to forms. Flypaper for eyeballs, indeed. I got a lot of ideas inspired by the forms but not necessarily restricted to them. So some of these could use any short form you fancy; it was just a jumping-off point for my brain.
*Nonet - I quite liked "The Strange Shapes of Clouds" poem you posted, and the tapered form of the nonet reminded me of it. Maybe for a waterfall or something else that falls or tapers?
*Ottava Rima - This one was described as being for epics of heroic deeds when many stanzas of this form are strung together. I thought it might be fun to miniaturize this or another epic form, using just one stanza of its usual format, to speak of small heroics--tiny and/or everyday acts.
*Old Norse forms - Have you read Maria Dahvana Headley's new translation of Beowulf? I have the audiobook of it, and it is a delight to listen to. The alliteration is addictive, and I love the riddle-logic of kennings. Something with a lot of that would be marvelous fun.
Also, in the link you gave for these forms, they mention Galdralag, and call it the "magic spell metre." This made me think of two things.
*One, a chant for meditation would be interesting if it used some of that Old Norse style--a mantra with a little sass to it, I was thinking.
*Two, I'd love to hear your take on a work song, for when doing rhythmic, repetitive tasks. Work songs and labor/union songs became suddenly interesting to the broader, younger internet when The Wellerman went viral. The subject came up of how we need these sorts of songs for modern jobs--the ballad of the Walmart worker, and so on. Cadences for the tasks of modern jobs would be fun too.
*Haiku - Haiku and related forms are my forever favorite, and I loved the year of haiku you did. Something I've been thinking about is how the seasonality of haiku and the kigo would change alongside climate change. Haiku in an (almost) apocalyptic future, where the markers of the seasons are different, or happen at different times. (Admittedly, this is something I very much want to write about myself as well, but hey, the more, the merrier!)
*Relatedly, I was thinking about poetry in a post-apocalyptic setting, where short poems are scratched into ruins and such by people passing through. Daughters of the Apocalypse made me think of it, though I don't know when in that timeline it would be most likely to happen. The specific limitation would be of scratching letters by hand into, say, a stone wall or metal siding. So it would need to be short, and certain letters would be easier than others to render. Part form, part phonemic restriction, I suppose?
And I saw a couple of rare word entries I liked the looks of:
*namelings npl 1706 -1706 persons bearing the same name The namelings Martin Luther and Dr. King shared a concern with political reform.
*lignatile adj 1855 -1855 living or growing on wood She collected lignatile mushrooms on her hike, confident in her identifications.
I got a little carried away...
*Nonet - I quite liked "The Strange Shapes of Clouds" poem you posted, and the tapered form of the nonet reminded me of it. Maybe for a waterfall or something else that falls or tapers?
*Ottava Rima - This one was described as being for epics of heroic deeds when many stanzas of this form are strung together. I thought it might be fun to miniaturize this or another epic form, using just one stanza of its usual format, to speak of small heroics--tiny and/or everyday acts.
*Old Norse forms - Have you read Maria Dahvana Headley's new translation of Beowulf? I have the audiobook of it, and it is a delight to listen to. The alliteration is addictive, and I love the riddle-logic of kennings. Something with a lot of that would be marvelous fun.
Also, in the link you gave for these forms, they mention Galdralag, and call it the "magic spell metre." This made me think of two things.
*One, a chant for meditation would be interesting if it used some of that Old Norse style--a mantra with a little sass to it, I was thinking.
*Two, I'd love to hear your take on a work song, for when doing rhythmic, repetitive tasks. Work songs and labor/union songs became suddenly interesting to the broader, younger internet when The Wellerman went viral. The subject came up of how we need these sorts of songs for modern jobs--the ballad of the Walmart worker, and so on. Cadences for the tasks of modern jobs would be fun too.
*Haiku - Haiku and related forms are my forever favorite, and I loved the year of haiku you did. Something I've been thinking about is how the seasonality of haiku and the kigo would change alongside climate change. Haiku in an (almost) apocalyptic future, where the markers of the seasons are different, or happen at different times. (Admittedly, this is something I very much want to write about myself as well, but hey, the more, the merrier!)
*Relatedly, I was thinking about poetry in a post-apocalyptic setting, where short poems are scratched into ruins and such by people passing through. Daughters of the Apocalypse made me think of it, though I don't know when in that timeline it would be most likely to happen. The specific limitation would be of scratching letters by hand into, say, a stone wall or metal siding. So it would need to be short, and certain letters would be easier than others to render. Part form, part phonemic restriction, I suppose?
And I saw a couple of rare word entries I liked the looks of:
*namelings npl 1706 -1706
persons bearing the same name
The namelings Martin Luther and Dr. King shared a concern with political reform.
*lignatile adj 1855 -1855
living or growing on wood
She collected lignatile mushrooms on her hike, confident in her identifications.