footle-haiku debut
high coup
haiku
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Chomolungma's fame
sherpas' legendary strength-
beware the dead zone
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© 2019 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved
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Poet's notes:
01/04/2019
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Poetry form: footle-haiku -This is my debut of the footle-haiku poetry form. It consists of a footle, followed by a haiku that has a correlation (direct or indirect) with the footle.
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high coup - a brilliant, sudden, and usually highly successful stroke or act // They pulled off a mountaineering high coup when they scaled Mt. Everest in record time.
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footle - a poem that is actually very short. It is a two-line poem that consists of two syllables in each line. It is generally written to be light and witty.
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haiku - a verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively
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