Monoku is a senryu/haiku with a slight enigmatic/ambiguous flavour, written in its earlier Japanese form as a one liner. A ceaesura (pause) may be appropriate, dictated by sense or speech rhythm,and usually very little punctusation.Seveteen syllables or less. They may also be in a sequence form.
#1 listen to the pause - silence is golden
#3 in the midst of death - lichens come to life
#3 a kite overhead - still as a road-kill
#4 the snow covers the pasture - the haystacks disappear
#6 the school-bus departs - she eats the advent candy
#9 carol concert prelude- - chatter of innocents
#12 footsteps in the street - echos of a distant youth
MONOKU SEQUENCE
#A
a perambulator arrives - emptiness takes its leave
*
a quietness descends - fresher term opens
*
room-to-let sign illumes - emptiness returns
#1 listen to the pause - silence is golden
#3 in the midst of death - lichens come to life
#3 a kite overhead - still as a road-kill
#4 the snow covers the pasture - the haystacks disappear
#6 the school-bus departs - she eats the advent candy
#9 carol concert prelude- - chatter of innocents
#12 footsteps in the street - echos of a distant youth
MONOKU SEQUENCE
#A
a perambulator arrives - emptiness takes its leave
*
a quietness descends - fresher term opens
*
room-to-let sign illumes - emptiness returns
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Here are some examples of mine (coyright Brian Strand) They may be used for educational purposes provided an acknowledgment is given & notice thereof given to strandbg@aol.com.
Other Educational Poetry Blogs of mine are
haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com
vignette-ichthys.blogspot.com
monoku-ichthys.blogspot.com
sequence-fibonacci.blogspot.com
ekphrasis-poiema.blogspot.com
quintile.blogspot.com
quintain.blogspot.com
ichthys-couplets.blogspot.com
epulaeryu.blogspot.com
tetractys-ichthys.blogspot.com
englyn.blogspot.com
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