Tuesday, August 14, 2018

226/365/Poetry and Form

I didn’t realize that in post 224 I had internalized Sabine’s reverse haiku until I tried to Moonlight-in-Vermont it. Here’s my “Writing advice” from 153:



When attempting haikus, it’s good to get John Blackburn’s verses and Karl Suessdorf’s tune to “Moonlight in Vermont” stuck in your head.

Pennies in a stream
Falling leaves, a sycamore
Moonlight in Vermont

Icy finger waves
Ski trails on a mountain side
Snowlight in Vermont

[Telegraph cables, they sing down the highway
And travel each bend in the road
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely]

Evening summer breeze
Warbling of a meadowlark
Moonlight in Vermont

[You and I and moonlight in Vermont]

3 comments:

  1. So this made me put on Ella and Louis...and it's blending beautifully with the katydids outside the window. Thank you for the suggestion. XO

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  2. How nice to listen to this again. It's playing now.

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  3. I am so uncultured. I don't know Moonlight in Vermont

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