The sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta structured as 5-7-7. Commonly it will address the same subject from differing perspectives or feature a volta-esque redressing of the core subject, with the break between each katauta.
A Katauta itself is often considered an incomplete poem, or seen as an element of something greater as opposed to a finished, refined work. Throughout ancient Japan, many poets would add to or author responses to existing katauta in order to create longer collaborative poetry. Such a poem is referred to as a Mondo: a series of katauta by various poets.
As a new poetry game, I wanted to put forward the idea of a Mondo, but with consideration of a continuing or fluid relationship between the katuata as with the sedoka. I feel we can do this as follows:
Does that make sense? Basically, I'd like to see how long it can go for and how it evolves, morphs, meanders and snakes. The idea is to be as tight, or as fluid in the relationship as you fancy, only linking your post to the preceding one (don't worry about the whole). If you're stuck for ideas, you could always lean on device such as refrain (i.e. borrow a line from the previous post) or anaphora (i.e. repeating a word or words to start a line), or perhaps syllabic mirroring and parallelisms -- or even elaborate on, or strengthen an existing concept or metaphor.
Great. So let's get started :)
See section below for the starting Katauta.
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A city skyline
yawns before me as morning
stirs the urbanite dreamer
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Sedoka Mondo
A Katauta itself is often considered an incomplete poem, or seen as an element of something greater as opposed to a finished, refined work. Throughout ancient Japan, many poets would add to or author responses to existing katauta in order to create longer collaborative poetry. Such a poem is referred to as a Mondo: a series of katauta by various poets.
As a new poetry game, I wanted to put forward the idea of a Mondo, but with consideration of a continuing or fluid relationship between the katuata as with the sedoka. I feel we can do this as follows:
- first post: a single katauta
- following post: a katauta in response, volta/turn or peripity, continuation (or using an idea/theme/reference from preceding post
- next post: as previous
- etcetera
Does that make sense? Basically, I'd like to see how long it can go for and how it evolves, morphs, meanders and snakes. The idea is to be as tight, or as fluid in the relationship as you fancy, only linking your post to the preceding one (don't worry about the whole). If you're stuck for ideas, you could always lean on device such as refrain (i.e. borrow a line from the previous post) or anaphora (i.e. repeating a word or words to start a line), or perhaps syllabic mirroring and parallelisms -- or even elaborate on, or strengthen an existing concept or metaphor.
Great. So let's get started :)
See section below for the starting Katauta.
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A city skyline
yawns before me as morning
stirs the urbanite dreamer
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