Chen-ou Liu, CA
a
needle of writing sews up my sensory nerves
moonlight ripples through snowflakes
between sleeps the dagger of night stabs into
fleshy secrets
moonbeams grace the pond a splash heard
tears from my mind deface the autumn moon
living between a rose fingered dawn and an ink
dark moon
moonbeams hit the waves a sea of broken bones
midnight shedding light on the scars of my past
sleeping with banana moon I am pregnant with
unborn verse
peeling off layered loneliness I weave a white
quilt
my dead skin falls into a poem for the ground to
read.
to Latin music a poem dances the cha cha inside
me
*A
monostich is a poem which consists of a single line.
Examples of monostich style of writing are found
throughout history. In ancient times
Marcus Valerius
Martialis (known in
English as
Martial-- 38 AD - 102
AD), was a
Latin poet from
Hispania -best known for his twelve books of
Epigrams, published in
Rome between AD 86 and 103.
Modern monostich was started in Russia in 1894 when
Valery Bryusov published the single line of pretty
absurdic essence:О закрой свои бледные ноги. (Oh,
cover your pale legs.)
In
Western poetry monostich was reinvented by Guillaume
Apollinaire in his "Chantre" (1914).
Monostich from
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
