Author Topic: mookuka (Read 4443 times)

witt · « **on:** February 18, 2007, 07:43 AM »

Try your hand at writing a mookuka. The format is 5-7-5-5. The rhyme scheme is aaba. Here is an example:

Do not feel forlorn
For as sure as you are born
You can't make a friend
With a white Leghorn

seraph · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2007, 12:06 PM »

I like this style~I tried the tanka~this looks interesting.

seraph

witt · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2007, 06:13 AM »

Well, go ahead and give it a try. It doesn't have to be as silly as this one, that's for sure.

Dutch · « **Reply #3 on:** February 23, 2007, 08:50 AM »

Ohhhh..another poetry form that is totally new to me...Learning all the time...thanks witt for introducing me to it, it really sounds cool...Let me have a try.

House near the Northsea
soon no longer home for me
always Stars and Stripes
Finally be free

cafeRg · « **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2007, 01:02 PM »

gonna give a try
while the coffee is frying
smoking leftover dreams
with a cat named spy

elise · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2007, 08:33 AM »

Ha Ha Witt, yours is way cute. Let me try.

Poets here at Splash
Don't write poetry for cash
Instead to share and
With poet friends bash

cafeRg · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2007, 11:18 AM »

if you came for bling
all you will get is poet's fame
so start a word string
find your poetry thing

Bittersweet · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2007, 01:42 PM »

I've never heard of this style before Witt. Will have to stop by later and give it a try.

elise · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2007, 01:50 PM »

I just love saying it. "mookuka, mookuka, mookuka"

cafeRg · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2007, 02:29 PM »

elsie = mookuka ..lol.... couldnt resist

i just did a search for mookuka Sweet teacher ..the only place it came up was here at SplashHall ..maybe we'll start a trend ..heh.. teach us please please Sweet teacher of the Mookuka Way.

i love it ..kinda haiku and (strict) limerick hybrid.. so fun to write..

elise · « **Reply #10 on:** February 24, 2007, 04:13 PM »

LOL Rg---I thought of that too!!! "ELSIE"=Moo-kuka

elise · « **Reply #11 on:** February 24, 2007, 04:28 PM »

Hmmm Witt. Did you make this up? Cuz I can't find anything about it either. If you did, what a great idea!
But fess up! We wanna know!

I found a fun site that started out with: " Everybody Was Haiku Fighting!"

elise

cafeRg · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2007, 11:37 AM »

standing on your street
for the night and day to meet
gangsters slip away
sparks of high heel feet

tag.. your it..

witt · « **Reply #13 on:** March 01, 2007, 06:31 AM »

OK, OK! I confess! Actually it started when John was writing a haiku, but it was too much to be a haiku, so he decided to change it to a tanka. That wasn't working out, so he decided to try something new. He showed it to me and said that it was a mookuka. He pointed out the meter and rhyme scheme and said, "Try THAT, smartypants!"
I decided that I liked the style, so here we are. A new form.