By guest poet Karuna Mistry
A nonet is not a sonnet, not
a songette nor a longette, not
a song and neither long, not
a phonic, nor sonic—
nine lines that descend
by single count
syllable
to just
one
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Karuna I love your audio reading, it is just perfect, so dry!
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Haha, dry is the word! Or is it wry…?
This is great – thanks for putting me up on your site!
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Both! I adore it
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Thank you for honouring my site with your work!
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I’d rather learn about a form this way!
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Same! Did you see my example longette?
https://wordflowerpoetry.com/2025/12/13/thoughts-on-the-longette-what-a-longette-is-and-what-a-longette-is-not-and-a-call-to-action-the-worlds-first-known-longette-written-in-december-2025/
This poem of Karuna’s in fact inspired the whole creation!
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Yes, I did, and thank you for that!
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A Lite version is coming soon, in case I made the form too tricky
EDIT: here it is: https://wordflowerpoetry.com/2025/12/22/introducing-the-longette-lite/
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Would you consider attempting a longette, Nolcha?
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If I don’t have to use rhyme, I would definitely try it out. For me, rhyming is a corset around a hippo. The hippo isn’t happy, and neither is the corset…..
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Done! I waive the rhyme, as long as you can incorporate the 1312 pattern somehow, somewhere, just once…could be in stanza lengths, in emojis, numerals, numbers, anything : ) I’m excited to read what you come up with!! ❤ Best Christmas present ever
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Thanks, I’ll work on it, starting tomorrow.
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Beautifully clever. Thanks for sharing.
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