Poems
Poems
in these pages could be couplets, triplets, acrostic , limericks
or any such stuff. Personally I prefer limericks to other forms
and hence they are likely to dominate.
Limericks are poems in
which the first, second, and fifth lines have one rhyming
pattern, while the third and fourth lines have another.
They are normally humourous in nature. I shall give an
example from memory: There was this student from Damascus The Designer
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SAMASYA 'Samasya' is an ancient but popular game or puzzle in poetry. Here essentially you are given a suggested last line of a four or eight line poem (stanza). You have to complete the poem making sure that the last line is the given one. The more original the underlying idea, the better. We do not know whether similar games exist in English literature. Let me try to give you an example from Sanskrit literature. Kalidasa the famous ccourt poet of King Vikramaditya was given a 'samasya' like this: The last line was 'A B C D' .(Remember this is my translation of the original Sanskrit poem and hence it will not sound as good). Kalidasa could not think of any suitable lines to complete the poem. Dejected, he was sitting under a tree when he saw a small girl going to the school. The conversation ensued was as follows: |
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What is
your name ? Obviously Kalidasa got his little poem ready in the process. (The original is of course thousand times better !!!)
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SAMASYA 01 This week's last line is : "Not me, nor you, neither the guy next door " My
sample solution Send your solutions at the earliest |
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Solution from Jessy Up in the sky, there's
the shining star |
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