poet
weaver of words
mastering rhymes and meters
soul whisperers who bear witness
silence is not golden
~kat
Continuing the Pensée this month. I really like the syllable count of this obscure little form: 2-4-7-8-6, as well as the theme suggestions:
line 1 is the subject;
line 2 gives description;
line 3, action;
line 4, the setting;
line 5, final thought.
It is also interesting to note the definition and etymology from Britannica.com of the word pensée, which no doubt was inspiration for this form:
Pensée, (French: literally, “thought”) a thought expressed in literary form. A pensée can be short and in a specific form, such as an aphorism or epigram, or it can be as long as a paragraph or a page. The term originated with French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, whose Pensées (1670) was a collection of some 800 to 1,000 notes and manuscript fragments expressing his religious beliefs. The form was particularly popular in French literature, as in Denis Diderot’s Pensées philosophiques (1746).
Now you know the rest of the story. And I have found one more reason to love this poetry form even more! 😊
