Monday 21 June 2010

Sudo Poetry

Here is the first Sudo Poetry blog. My intention is to present Sudo poetry on this blog and nothing else. Here are the rules of sudo poetry. Sudo as in Judo never Sue Do (a woman who may or may not exist).

7 lines.
First 3 lines are the 'su'.
They have a 7/10/7 syllable count.
The last syllable of lines 1 and 2 rhyme. That rhyme is loosely carried into the first syllable of line 3.
The 'su' must have some reference to either an animal or a bodily function or wildflower.

The 'do' consists of the next 4 lines.
They have a syllable count of 6/6/6/6.
There is no rhyming structure but one may be imposed on the poem by the author.
The first syllable of each of lines 4,5 and 6 must begin with the same vowel and conversely the last syllable of those lines must end with the same consonant.
The last line, line 7, must have nothing to do with the rest of the poem. If the poem is about Boris Johnson and David Cameron in their natural Eton habitat then the last line should be about, say, the American sit com Everybody Loves Raymond.

All poems will be presented by poets under pseudonyms...sudonyms...sudo-nyms.

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