Kite poetry

Kite poetry has been variously described as:

a poor man's haiku; and
a window into eternity brought to true artistic sublimation by the genius of Billy O'Flagherty.

The strength of kite poetry is its strict and uncompromising adherance to two principles:

rigour of form; and
simplicity of content.

This form is defined simply by the number of syllables in each line, as follows:

I
I I
I I I
I I I I
I I I I I
I I I I
I I I
I I
I

(Technical note: the above, and the poems themselves, look best when viewed with a browserwith text centring capability such as theNetscape Navigator 2.0).

Appropriate content is less easy to define but, like haiku, kite poems often offer an alternative view of a seemingly mundane situation.

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