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Untitled Dodoitsu

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UntitledDodoitsuDodoitsu is another short, less familiar Japanese poetic form developed towards the end of the Edo period. It often is about love or work, and is sometimes comical. Dodoitsu poems consist of four lines with the moraic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme for a total of 26 morae (a single mora can consits of one, two or even three syllables), making the Dodoitsu one of the longer Japanese forms. The form and tone of Dodoitsu derive from Japanese folk song traditions.

The Canals of Mars / David Jibson

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Astronomer Percival Lowell, founder of the Lowell Observatory, published Mars and Its Canals in 1906. His observations of the planet mars were greatly influenced by those of Giovanni Schiaparelli. The two men’s speculations generated many subsequent sci-fi novels, stories, movies and, eventually, this poem which appeared first in Apex Magazine and now in my collection, Protective Coloration, available from Kelsay Books and at Amazon.com.