How Did It Go?

Thinking through emotion, current world events, and a sense of imagined histories collide in these three imayo. The form is Japanese, it is composed of 12 syllable lines of four lines, to create narrative, enigmatic verse. I worked on these mostly focused on the fact of the break 7 / 5 syllables per line creates a linear diptych as well as a continuity of breadth-of-feeling in sound and emotion. I like how form creates texture, atmosphere emerges from soft/hard sounds, from the fracture/ continuity across line and in the fissures of the poem.

Robert Frede Kenter

I enjoy these Japanese forms and find they work well with nature poetry, as originally intended. This came from a walk along the Clowne Greenway on the old track track.

Greenway

June sun lifts into the sky / turns the warm air hot
Trees hide us from its burning / leaves dapple the floor
Nettle-smell rises upward / the robin’s head tilts
Trains came here, steam-soot filled air / fragmented in time

How Did It Go?

I enjoy these Japanese forms and find they work well with nature poetry, as originally intended. This came from a walk along the Clowne Greenway on the old track track.

Tim Fellows

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Robert Frede Kenter is a widely published writer, visual artist & the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net).