Do short poems scare an audience? Difficult to settle in and listen without expectation of grasping whole cloth, the first time.
Of course, there’s no consensus on what constitutes a longer poem. For me, 28 lines.
Regarding food, I consider soup as long. Ceviche as short-ish.
Yeah But
ReplyDeleteWhat if you want to longetivity your very
last limb of lettuce?
Not have enough, hostess says.
Get more, guest says.
Dilemmas of the pagoda
bridging little forms,
once umbrella
never furled
a thousand years too
short.
Scribble and the river flows
to make your record
disappear.