In view of the Haiku’s popularity in the West, and the rising interest in Asian poetry, it’s surprising that the Than Bauk is not more popular. Than-Bauk, conventionally a witty saying or epigram, is a three line “climbing rhyme” poem of Burmese origin. Each line has four syllables. The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of the first line, the third syllable of the second line, and the second syllable of the third line.
WALT’S EXAMPLE:
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
Wait for hours;
these showers pour,
flowers will grow.
© Copyright Walter J Wojtanik – 2014
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IAIN’S THAN-BAUK:
LOVE: LIES BLEEDING
Beware the sword
of the lord who’s
grown bored with you
© Iain Douglas Kemp 3/14
POETIC BLOOMINGS 
Responses
That looks like fun…
Sweet, Walt; Iain… ow… I felt that one!
🙂
Yep, I agree
Walt and Lain – fun way to start the writing going,
Chicken Soup
Simmering soup
for croopy cough,
scoot, scoot away!
Love it! especially the “scoot”
Thanks, Darlene.
That’ll do it! Cute
(Slurp!)
Lol, sounds yummy
Just right!
Good for the soul, too.
So I’ve read. 😉
I go for the soup. 🙂
Than-Bauk
Interesting
Take a fling with
This thing: Than-Bauk
(c) 2014 Earl Parsons
Made me laugh
Not so easy as you’d think, I found.
With you on that one G
Made me smile too, Earl.
Very good, Earl!
Dessert
Magnificent
Apple scents rise
Crescent roll yum
© 2014 Earl Parsons
That makes a lot of ‘sense’
Now I’m hungry! Nice one!
Mee too; I’ll have three.
They could go with the soup!
Rejected
He walked the walk
Talked the talk, too
We locked Him out
© 2014 Earl Parsons
sadly true
He’s at the door
want’s to pour out
love for mankind.
AN EVERYDAY LESSON
(A Than-bauk Chain)
Give it your best.
Life’s a test, friend,
the rest you’ll learn,
I must insist,
at every turn
or you’ll burn where
you’ll yearn in Hell
to warn and tell,
Please repel sin,
the spell that’ll kill,
Do rest assured,
can only fill
to the hilt what
brings ills to souls.
For whom bells toll
red-hot coals rain,
flames roll like waves,
But enter grace,
He that can save,
He who gave all,
So bravely done
For everyone.
God’s good son paid
and none ignored.
He died for us
And gave us more.
Rich and poor souls
now soar like birds.
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Excellent. Love it.
Nicely done.
Very cleverly done 🙂
Jack Frost
Jack Is still here
frosting dear Spring’s
soft ears and hands-
Out staying his welcome for sure!
Yes! Time he went home!
I think is is lovely.
Aw, I love this Priti.
Kiss and Tell?
Can’t kiss and tell
If I yell, your
lips fell on mine
Sweet!
Iain, thanks for looking me up again. This poem was inspired by a lunchtime joke. . .
Wonderful!
Sounds like yelling is good…….
Let’s hope so. 🙂
My favorite so far, and that’s saying a LOT with the body of excellent work displayed here.
Marie, wow, I am humbled. This is a fun form for me.
Good one, Darlene!
OLD PHOTOS
Look at the frame.
Who’s the dame there?
What name is hers?
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I’ve done that so often with old photos – very well expressed.
Old flames in old frames, eh? Love it.
ENOUGH ALREADY
Please! No more snow!
Where to stow it
Or tow away?
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Any day now….
My Life With You
It feels so good
Like it should feel
How could it not
When you are here
Right by my side
On this tide we
Both ride called life
God put you here
Never fear, He
Is here with us
Always will be
His blessings grow
And I know He
Will show the way
No matter how
I now vow and
I bow to you
Forever more
With Him to guide
And confide in
This ride will last
© 2014 Earl Parsons
Good chain – I’d never have thought of doing that.
I agree
Got the idea from Sal. Thought I’d give it a go.
Frozen Food
Oh, where is spring?
Winter’s fling just
won’t wing away.
Robin red-breast
on a quest tries
to wrest iced worms.
A tasty treat
crunchy meat then
he repeats. Yum
Well done!
I love these, especially the middle one.
This is so well done, Debi.
Oh, fun form! Love your example Iain!
Praying on Superiority
Every and each
lording speech shows
the leach in wait.
Speaks volumes in so few words! Thanks Mik – as you know I don’t do form. My spectrum took 15 mins. This one nearly an hour!!
I love this. A lot of widsdom in a pithy piece.
Hear, hear!
Death and Taxes
I feel the urge –
spend and splurge when
the dirge descends.
🙂
Happens every April, eh?
How I Really Feel Today
of being blue
I say screw you
in lieu – candy.
LOL! 🙂
Same here.
YES!
Last one! I promise!
Beware of Following Crumbs
There was a crone
who was known by
blood, bone and sweets.
I can picture this person. Wonderful.
Alone
Standing by waves
Dry, unshaved, raw
And craving salt
Very vivid
Wonderful!
This is a first for me. I’ve not heard of this form before. It takes getting used to, but I’ve given it a chance and myself one, too.
(Than Bauk)
More’s the pity
each city breathes
gritty used air.
Good first attempts, Claudsy 🙂
Thanks, Iain. My brain just doesn’t think on this track. It’s a major shift for me.
Lots os truth gasping here.
LOL Thanks, William. It was the first thought after seeing the prompt and examples.
I’ve never heard of this one either, Clauds, and I like it very much. Yours is superb!!
Aw, thanks, Marie. I’m glad you liked it. I don’t have nearly enough time to explore forms as I’d like. One of these days. That’s what I keep telling myself. 🙂
I found this a tough challenge as well, but you wrote a winner.
Aw, bless you, Sara. It’s tough when a form goes against one’s normal thought current. I’m glad you enjoyed my efforts. I just wish I could have found more cracks in my week’s schedule to come back and finish my own commenting. Perhaps tomorrow. <>
(Than Bauk)
Yellow daffies;
Bright daisies sway;
Bee sees targets.
This one made me accent the last syllables!
Really Hmm…. Thanks, William. I’ll have to look at that.
(Than Bauk)
Slick paper cuts,
while door shuts off
your mutt’s barking.
I’ll be back in a short to do comments here and on the Sunday prompt. 🙂
Free Rein
Kryptonite fights
men in tights, but
I write freely.
© Copyright 2014
Benjamin Thomas
Me too!
Chortling here.
What a great form! Thanks for introducing it.
migrating birds
wing like words; flight
home girds the world
That’s clever!
Oh, superb! Spot on for this time of year, too.
Great job on this form, Jane!
Window Warm
A sunning cat
will purr that fur
is satisfied.
Indeed!
I think this is a little gem.
Whether Weather
Know: wintry sun
is undone by
clouds’ blundering.
I can feel this… every time I stand in a strip of sunlight through the front door and then it disappears!
Wonderful slant on it. Blame it on the cloudsa nova.
Wanderlust
My pup is stuck
in a muck pile
Who’ll pluck him out?
Oh, I just want to ERASE THIS ONE !!! : D !!
Your poem is stuck too but I like it!
Ha, ha, ha… yes, can’t undo it. Thank you, Iain… I just don’t know Why I do not like it!! 😦 !!
Because you love puppies and want to see them romp without mud. XO 🙂
Aww… sweet perspective… This last little guy was an older pup (btwn 1-3yrs) and let me tell you… he was like a little “canine-pogo-stick” Terrier… he was with me because he had to recuperate after being hit by a car… I think he would be a great Agility-course dog, so full of energy!!
i can totally picture this in a children’s magazine, Hen. Super cute!
An empty keg
Drunken beggar
An egg on face
I hear a bell
From the well. Oh!
Cat fell down there.
His funny face
Is a trace smart
And spacey, too.
those are 3 different ones
And all good ones!
Indeed!
Poor kitty. Love these.
These are wonderful, Connie.
Pretty Pictures
Our rain and snow
Will not go, yet
Earth’s glow is here.
Ah, such optimism!
The imminent spring is on a lot of minds – nice one!
The backward clock
could still talk, it
went tock, tick, tock.
Mmmmmpffff! Love it.
Ding dong!
SPRING
Today’s spring rains
flower chains to
ease pains
April showers
May flowers bring
To spur spring’s joy
Lovely, just lovely.
Thank you, William, for taking time to read and respond.
That’s meant as two poems. 🙂
Agreed! Both lovely!
You seem to have a knack for this form, Darlene.
I did find this form easy to work with. Thanks.
PROGRESSION
Writing Than-bauk,
first you gawk, then
you balk and squawk.
I can relate to that!
I know I did! 🙂
Tattle-tale
Pinocchio’s nose
always grows ‘cause
it knows the lie
Can you tell I’m having fun? Maybe I’ll find something serious. If not, I’ll be quiet.
Goodness knows, this piece has a nose for fun.
Nothing wrong with good fun and this is good.
I thought of it when I saw that TV ad with Pinocchio’s nose growing long — how he would make a terrible motivational speaker.
Thanks, George, Williams
Good because that was FUN!
Thanks. I just decided four was enough.
Than-Bauk poems
Chest puffed out, red
quickly, sped off
with bread in beak
In purple ink
she can think, write,
and drink some wine.
Purple they are! Love these.
Super stuff!!
Thanks so much, William, Iain, and Darlene.
I need that purple pen . . . Love it
It ’tis my fate
I must wait for
a date with you.
I plan to make
(use as bate) a
pie, great for you.
So to sedate
you to state to
set date with me.
’cause once you ate
(what I bake), you
will make a choice.
To get a cake
(I could bake,) you
must make with me
an honest date
to translate to
a great time spent.
Then we could rate
our first date – worth
the wait (ooo, Ya)
Sorry, Marjory; my placed my comment in the wring place. These, meaning yours, are first-rate.
To comment I
should first spy the
reply button.
Very nice indeed.
Some poems take the biscuit – this takes the Pie! 🙂
Ah, these are first-rate!
ANNOYANCE
His voice can grate
like a gate oiled
too late to help.
That is so apropos of someone I shall not name! love it!! 🙂
I think we all know someone like that.
[…] Creative Bloomings-Than-Bauk […]
Day is Breaking
Rising early
sun softly spills
lightly climbing.
Copyright © Hannah Gosselin 2014
This is gently evocative. I can feel it as well as see it.
Now, just taking the -ly rhyme is so subtle and yet so magical 🙂
GROANING IN THE GLOAMING
The night might come,
casting some light
on slumbertime.
To sleep, perchance to dream… 🙂
Funky Friday
Head full of snot
I cannot work
I caught the crud
© 2014 Earl Parsons
Nurse’s Orders
Pain in my head
“Go to bed now”
So said my wife
© 2014 Earl Parsons
Belaboring the Poem
Pondering birth:
To unearth life
Is worth digging.
© Marie Elena Good
Wonderful, Marie!
Aww! Thanks so much!
Than Bauking
this mountain climb-
ing (short) rhyme makes
my time alpine.
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