I often scroll through Pinterest for inspiration while working on my poetry. During one search for new ideas, the above image caught my attention immediately, and the phrase “play your bones like a xylophone” popped into my head.
Determined to use it in a poem, I tried it out in a quick senryu:
Senryu 55
tonight I will dream
about playing your bones
like a xylophone
I liked it, but it felt a little incomplete. I decided to try it in an elfchen next.
Bone Xylophone
I’m
dreaming about
playing your bones
like a xylophone tonight
feverishly
I liked this version better, but since I was having fun experimenting, I wrote a third poem in the form of a triolet.
Playing your bones
tonight I’m dreaming
about playing your bones like a xylophone
your vertebrae jingling
tonight I’m dreaming
diabolically scheming
carving your tombstone
tonight I’m dreaming
about playing your bones like a xylophone
So far this version is my favorite, but I’m curious to see how many more I can come up with using different poetry forms. Stay tuned!
Really interesting to see your process. The third one is my favourite, too.
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Yep, the Triolet is brilliant and quite eerie!
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The middle version is epic!!! 🖤
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I love this! People really are interested in the creation process.
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Ha, I love to see the development. I liked the first one, and wondered why add more? Then I liked the second one, understood, and thought ‘why add more’. Then I read the third one and understood 🙂
I’d love to read more of these!
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Thank you!
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