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May 14, 2011
Suggester's words: Eastern Poetry Forms by *saiun is basically a compilation of links that #the-haiku-club has put together on available Eastern Poetry forms - it is a super handy reference, and should be more readily available to all. Typically, this list is maintained in #the-haiku-club's journal (the link to which is available in the deviation comments) - but *saiun was lovely enough to submit it as a deviation so it can be collected and thus easily found.
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The Haiku Club: Eastern Poetry Forms
- Japanese
- Haikai
- Waka
- Korean
- Chinese
- Southeast Asian
- Go Vat (Cambodia)
- Luc Bat (Viet Nam)
- Pantoum (Malaysia)
- Pathya Vat (Cambodia)
- Tanaga (Philippines)
- Than Bauk (Burma)
- Ya Du (Burma)
- Middle Eastern
- Modern / Derivative
Literature
Punctuating Poetry Part One
Some people believe poetry shouldn't be punctuated and others are still taught to put a comma after every new line. So where is the balance? What does one - especially one new or growing in poetry - do? Well, that's simple: a poet must punctuate with purpose!
In order to punctuate with purpose, however, a poet must understand two things: what she wants to achieve with the poem and what a piece of punctuation can achieve in a poem. This means a poet must understand more than the common rules of punctuation; she must know the effect that certain punctuation points can have on a reader or in a text.
This overview tackles punctuation in poetry
Literature
Characterization and Names
Characterization and Nomenclature:
What's in a name?
As an author, one of the most important tasks in writing a story is building a character. Every small trait that a writer leaves, builds, and hints at, draws a reader into the story and gives them an image of each character, be it protagonist, antagonist, or miscellaneous extra. However, many writers overlook one of the strongest traits that a character can have: a name. Nomenclature can be one of the most powerful assets that a writer has in their endless battle to build a lifelike character.
The uses of a name
The craft of literature is always at some level a decision-making process.
Literature
Vertigo
He sleeps the sleep of a man
who doesn't yet know that Love
sits sewing her shadow to the dawn,
nursing a subtle,
aching silence in his lungs
with her name, her shape.
He can't fathom how someone
can sit so deep inside him,
shelling the shadows of himself
as though there are moons at their core,
how he no longer believes
in falling lightly in love
but in committing himself
to inevitable call of concrete
or how she lingers like ink on his fingers,
like a story he's still figuring out how to write.
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Simply a copy of the Eastern Poetry Forms journal at the Haiku Club for *jamberry-song's lovely Writing Resources collection. I'll try to keep this updated but you can always check out the journal page for the latest and greatest. If you happen to know of a poetry form from anywhere in Asia that isn't listed here, or a good resource about one that is, please note me about it! 
This work is a collaboration between many amazing artists here on dA. Each area cites those that have contributed to it, but here is a full list of the current contributors. If you've found this resource useful then take some time to visit these artists and give them some love!
This work is a collaboration between many amazing artists here on dA. Each area cites those that have contributed to it, but here is a full list of the current contributors. If you've found this resource useful then take some time to visit these artists and give them some love! © 2010 - 2024 saiun
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In Language we had to write a Tanka, a Haiku, a Senryu, and a Cinquain. I loved it