Neologism in Honor of Anthi Psomiadou
Mutual respect and friendship among co-creators
Tree Langdon I read your challenge too quickly and wrote this tanka before I realized the true nature of your challenge:
Anthi wrote five lines She called it a limerick But there were no rhymes I soothed her disappointment I named it a L’Anthirick
Explanation:
Anthi Psomiadou had published this great piece:
Anthi and I are close friends though in this life cycle we have only met on Medium. In fact, Anthi inspired this tanka of mine:
Mind reads strangers’ texts assigning words my own voice Third-eye hears old friends’ distinctly familiar yet no conscious memory
The decoder ring is here:
Given our closeness, Anthi and I frequently co-create. I often ask her to name pieces that I have written. Here are three of those:
We also frequently challenge each other. I pointed out that her poems in Opinion did not meet the definition of a limerick, which are five lines with an aabba rhyming pattern.
So I made up the word L’Anthirick
Anthi wrote five lines She called it a limerick But there were no rhymes I soothed her disappointment I named it a L’Anthirick
Here is how this played out. For fun and games and personal challenge, I also transformed one of Anthi’s poems into a proper limerick. Anthi had written:
I put my hand in my head, I took my opinions and put them on a shelf. Stay there at least for tonight. Leave space for the knowledge to arise. They shut their mouths and I slept.
Building off Anthi’s deep piece, I proposed to her:
“I put my hand in my head I took my opinions and put them to bed Stay there at least for tonight Leave space for the knowledge to arrive at first light They shut their mouths while my mind read”
Anthi loved that transformation, saying:
“It’s very beautiful! And, in parallel, I still see similar sounds to my choices/endings. It feels OK in me, so I don’t have a problem with readers who won’t think of these as limericks. Maybe, it’s my way of “limericking” for now. 🙂”
To which I replied:
“I just tend to be a purest when terms of art are used and I think you appreciate that — what you wrote are L’Anthiricks!! and great ones!!!”
Anthi replied:
“You see? If I had written them with perfect rhymes, how this smart and beautiful “mame” would not have been created by you? : P I like it!”
To which I replied:
“SYNCHRONICITY”
Thus, I almost housed this piece in Anthi’s and my co-creation:
Where we celebrate synchronicities and the every-person-portal.
I read stories all over Medium every day that involve coincidences, whether or not the writer even discussed that aspect in their piece. Attention writers: write about the synchronicities that aided the creation of your prior work and give those stories additional life in C&C.
Yet, as Tree started this chain in Claire’s pub, I published it here.
For those who may want to participate in Tree’s actual challenge or simply want to read a great list of neologisms, here you go:
In Rama I create,
