10.02.2008 5:09 pm
A new kind of poetry: the Oge.e.ku
Post-Dispatch Book Editor
Ogden Nash
Pat Tovo says she’s having fun creating a new form of poetry. She calls it Oge.e.ku. (but don’t ask me how to pronounce it).
It combines elements of Ogden Nash, e.e. cummings and haiku (but don’t ask me why - I think it’s just for fun).
Check out how the St. Louis-area writer structures the poetry at her blog http://prattlefromtheflatlands.blogspot.com
Here is one of her poems, which combines the brevity of haiku, silly rhyme like Nash and some odd syntax, like cummings.
Contorted, twisted, eagle spread
bewitching, twitching, lump of lead
my dog, while small in stature be,
takes up more space in bed than me
Anyone like to try to write an Oge.e.ku?
My attempt at Oge.e.ku
One thinks of feeling hands
in a thousand lonely rooms….
as rhymer’s swing from trees
looking, touching me.
The light , soft shadows creep
Feeding time draws near
she sits high in a tree
this monkey touching me.