day 25: glosa

Write a poem in the form of a glosa using a quote from Haikyuu!!.

This Spanish form is a poem that a glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like (or 4 lines of dialogue, which you can break any way you want), and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds to each line of the quatrain, with each of the quatrain’s four lines in turn forming the last line of each stanza. Traditionally, each stanza has ten lines, but don’t feel obligated to hold yourself to that!

Here’s a nice summary of the glosa form to help you get started.

If you need LESS structure: write a four-line poem that could be an epigraph (introductory quote) for a Haikyuu!! episode or chapter.

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