Notes on the Soviet Stamp Suite
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2024-april-pad-challenge-day-15
Today’s April PAD Challenge prompt asks participants to write a middle poem.
https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-10/
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt invites participants to take poetic inspiration from postage stamps.
I decided to go with a Haibun. I selected what seemed to me an incongruous stamp. This stamp originated in the former Soviet Union but uses a religious image. Since the Soviet government was not merely irreligious but actively opposed to religion, I am puzzled by the existence of this stamp.
To complete my baffling Haibun, I wrote a Haiku using a prompt from the Carpe Diem Haiku site.
https://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2012/11/carpe-diem-special-9-plum-blossom.html
For the second Haibun in the Soviet stamp series, I used these prompts:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2024-april-pad-challenge-day-16
For the third Twofer Tuesday prompt, poets were invited to write a poetry form poem and/or an anti-form poem.
A Haibun is a form, so I’ll think of a way to deconstruct my Haibuns for the third piece in the Soviet Stamp Suite.
https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-11/
Today’s NaPoWrimo prompt asks poets to closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does.
The style of Haibun that I use for the first two poems in the Soviet Stamp Suite ends with a Haiku unrelated to the prose part of the Haibun. One can infer subtle connections between the prose and the Haiku, I suppose. I’m honestly not terribly concerned about it one way or the other.
For my next trick, I took my two Haibuns and created a blackout poem. A blackout poem is a form, but the resulting double Haibun is a nonstandard Haibun and therefore an anti-form poem, methinks.
Enjoy the Works of the Weaver from the Ancient Realms channel on Odysee.
A typo would have put me way over the top for my Camp NaNoWriMo goal. I'm not a cheater, though. I corrected it. It's kind of painful to subtract 145,000 words from your word count!
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