Today's challenge is to write a liwuli.
minus one
It should not be this way of course, a hard cookie crumbling. It is unfair for both of us. And chemo is not cheap either.
It is now a night of waiting
quick footsteps
cold coffee.
Have you seen tracers firing into the night sky, are they like red ribbons?
02/04/2023
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A liwuli is a poetic form originating in South-east Asia.
A liwuli consists of 3 stanzas:
(1) the first stanza contains exactly 31 syllables in the form of a prose poem, and should be expressed as instructions.
(2) the second stanza consists of 14 syllables, and is broken into 3 lines, the length of each line is up to the writer as long as there are 14 syllables in the lines.
(3) the third stanza consists of 19 syllables, broken into as many lines you want, and should be phrased entirely in terms of questions.
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ), 2023
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