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Anyone can write a haiku
It doesn't take very much skill
Everyone can count to seven or five
So I'm proposing a new challenge
That takes a bit of thought
Try it, it's called a sestina
It's a french kind of poem, a sestina
And has nothing in common with a Japanese haiku
At least that's what I always thought
I never realized though, that writing one would require so much skill
And I'm finding it more of a challenge
I can't keep a rythm, but no one's used rythm in these poems since nineteen o five
Tomorrow I'm buying tickets to Bob Dylan; I'm getting up at five
But that has nothing to do with the sestina
form, which I was trying to write about, so I could challenge
Other people to write some and ditch the haiku
But my lines are getting longer and longer, I'm losing the skill
This looks less and less like poetry as the stanzas go on. What a thought
Three more to go and then the final thought
I remember when I was five
I didn't care about skill
Or appearance or anything like that. I'd never heard of the sestina
Or the haiku
And I never cared about the challenge
Now I'm seizing that same challenge
And putting in some thought
I feel more and more like scrapping this and writing a haiku
But I'm sick of couting to five
And getting to the end of this sestina
Will take some skill
I can write real poems, I just don't like forms.skill.
But I thought I'd try one out. challenge.
Apparently form can add strusture to poetic thought. sestina.
I don't buy it; it's restricting my ability to express myself. thought.
Give me back my free verse. five.
I cheated on this one. haiku.
So a haiku doesn't take much skill
Writing five wouldn't be a challenge
Try putting some thought into a sestina
DO IT.
It doesn't take very much skill
Everyone can count to seven or five
So I'm proposing a new challenge
That takes a bit of thought
Try it, it's called a sestina
It's a french kind of poem, a sestina
And has nothing in common with a Japanese haiku
At least that's what I always thought
I never realized though, that writing one would require so much skill
And I'm finding it more of a challenge
I can't keep a rythm, but no one's used rythm in these poems since nineteen o five
Tomorrow I'm buying tickets to Bob Dylan; I'm getting up at five
But that has nothing to do with the sestina
form, which I was trying to write about, so I could challenge
Other people to write some and ditch the haiku
But my lines are getting longer and longer, I'm losing the skill
This looks less and less like poetry as the stanzas go on. What a thought
Three more to go and then the final thought
I remember when I was five
I didn't care about skill
Or appearance or anything like that. I'd never heard of the sestina
Or the haiku
And I never cared about the challenge
Now I'm seizing that same challenge
And putting in some thought
I feel more and more like scrapping this and writing a haiku
But I'm sick of couting to five
And getting to the end of this sestina
Will take some skill
I can write real poems, I just don't like forms.skill.
But I thought I'd try one out. challenge.
Apparently form can add strusture to poetic thought. sestina.
I don't buy it; it's restricting my ability to express myself. thought.
Give me back my free verse. five.
I cheated on this one. haiku.
So a haiku doesn't take much skill
Writing five wouldn't be a challenge
Try putting some thought into a sestina
DO IT.