Comments on: Shizaru Undone

By: A lovely rejection letter | R-H Perspectives

A lovely rejection letter | R-H Perspectives — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:53:56 +0000

[...] in July, I entered one of my poems, Shizaru Undone, in the New Millennium Writings summer poetry contest. (Incidentally, NMW runs simultaneous [...]

By: A lovely rejection letter | Scribblers On The Edge

A lovely rejection letter | Scribblers On The Edge — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:46:27 +0000

[...] in July of 2009 I entered one of my poems, Shizaru Undone, in the New Millennium Writings summer poetry contest. (Incidentally, NMW runs simultaneous [...]

By: John Rea-Hedrick

John Rea-Hedrick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:04 +0000

Inspired the seldom seen fourth Japanese monkey (‘do no evil’) of the well-known ‘see no evil’, ‘hear no evil’, ‘speak no evil’ three Japanese monkeys trinity, this poem is another outcome of my explorations of formal structure to free up my fiction writing. Written in iambic tetrameter it’s composed of three ten line stanzas followed by a six line envoy. The rhyme scheme is organized in non-repeating couplets; no rhyme repeats throughout the entire poem. The only exception is in first four lines of the final stanza and is done for emphasis. Each stanza opens with an allusion towards the fourth monkey while exploring the experience of the each of the other three. All other observations I could make I will withhold and will leave Shizaru Undone with you to make your own.