https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/17917
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chased hard by sheriff’s posse, after robbing bank,
outlaw on horseback heads for cave at split rock creek
where sioux quartzite cliffs rise along stony banks and
narrow at devil’s gulch…chasm where jesse james jumped!
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The Imayo* – Japanese form structure:
– 4 lines (8 lines permissible)
– 12 syllables per line divided as 7/5
– make a pause space between the 7 and 5 syllables
– use comma, caesura or kireji (cutting word) as the pause
– no rhymes, no meter, no end of line pauses
– the whole should flow together as though one long sentence
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Link to MTB with Laura Bloomsbury at dVerse Poets pub.
a poem in my pocket 
Jul 16, 2023 @ 11:14:22
Wonderful history lesson in so few lines.
Jul 20, 2023 @ 11:40:55
thanks for reading, janice 🙂
Jul 14, 2023 @ 09:11:45
My! My first time hearing if this. You wrote a glorious poem. Way to go, Lynn. 👏🏽
Jul 14, 2023 @ 10:53:39
Thank you, my friend 🙂
Jul 14, 2023 @ 08:53:27
Nicely done, Jay. Love the throwback western.
Jul 14, 2023 @ 08:54:28
Oops! Sorry Lynn. Wrong name! :<(
Jul 14, 2023 @ 10:53:07
Ha, ha…glad you liked it, Dwight!
Jul 14, 2023 @ 06:51:00
That is such a cool site, and I like that you wove the legend into your poem.
Jul 14, 2023 @ 07:39:28
Thank you, Merril…it was fun to write 😉
Jul 14, 2023 @ 08:14:15
You’re welcome, Lynn!
Jul 14, 2023 @ 06:23:32
Love this, Lynn.❤️
Jul 14, 2023 @ 06:42:31
Thank you, Melissa!
Jul 14, 2023 @ 04:44:37
A historical legendary Imayo, Lynn! I had no idea about Jesse James’s leap at Devil’s Gulch.
Jul 14, 2023 @ 06:43:38
It’s an interesting legend and beautiful natural area!
Jul 14, 2023 @ 02:00:57
What a story… I have never learned the details about the outlaws.
Jul 14, 2023 @ 06:45:21
We like to learn their stories as we travel to different sites…fun to read about 🤠