Secret? What secret?
Feb. 2nd, 2007 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyThere is no day so impossibly sucky that it cannot be instantly cured by a poem or three from an admirer. Tuesday was such a day.
A couple of years ago as part of the development of my Japanese persona, I began infecting various SCA e-lists with waka, a poem of five lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables that became popular in the Heian period. I was thrilled when other people started writing them back.
Somewhere along the line, the friendly poetic conversations with a certain bushi from Aethelmearc turned into an in-persona courtship. For the record, we've never met in person and he's happily married to a very understanding lady who evidently enjoys reading what we write. Who knew romance-as-literary-exercise could be so much fun?
Date Saburou Yukiie's latest messages and Saionji no Hanae's replies will be up on my website some time this weekend. My poetry page has grown so large I've decided to bite the bullet and try to divide it up into smaller pages. EDIT - make that now. http://www.wodefordhall.com/makiwarapoetry.htm if you want to start at the very beginning. http://www.wodefordhall.com/morewaka3.htm if you just want to see the new ones.
In the meantime, I'm still basking in the happy glow of "robes lined with gleaming sunlight."
A couple of years ago as part of the development of my Japanese persona, I began infecting various SCA e-lists with waka, a poem of five lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables that became popular in the Heian period. I was thrilled when other people started writing them back.
Somewhere along the line, the friendly poetic conversations with a certain bushi from Aethelmearc turned into an in-persona courtship. For the record, we've never met in person and he's happily married to a very understanding lady who evidently enjoys reading what we write. Who knew romance-as-literary-exercise could be so much fun?
Date Saburou Yukiie's latest messages and Saionji no Hanae's replies will be up on my website some time this weekend. My poetry page has grown so large I've decided to bite the bullet and try to divide it up into smaller pages. EDIT - make that now. http://www.wodefordhall.com/makiwarapoetry.htm if you want to start at the very beginning. http://www.wodefordhall.com/morewaka3.htm if you just want to see the new ones.
In the meantime, I'm still basking in the happy glow of "robes lined with gleaming sunlight."
