Obviously, this is inspired by haiku.

I’m suggesting that we invent a new poem format. Well, I don’t know about every format that already exists and this one just might already. But my idea is that you write a poem in three lines. The first line is four syllables. The second line is three and the last line is two syllables. Or you could make the first line four words, the second three words and the third would be two. But you cannot combine the two. You must stick with counting either syllables or counting words.

Counting Syllables

The cheerful lark

Sings a song

Sublime

Counting Words

The happy little lark

Sings a song

To delight

What I like about haiku and senyru is that they force you to present your thought, image, or emotion with as few words as possible and yet still dramatically get the point across. Hopefully, this format will help to do the same thing.

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