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Tag Archives: balance
Solstice
Look: for a minute the light takes over dark as the great wheel turns. Then, in the next span of now, the shadow always grows back. There must be balance in our illusion of two – no up without down, … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, emptiness, poetic forms, seasons, solstice, tanka, waka
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Rainbows and sunshine: tanka
This note may be dark, but it reflects the weather. Besides, too much light fades color from everything. What a gray world that would make! Rainbows and sunshine do not help the whole world grow. There must be dark storms … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, balance, dark, illusion, Japanese verse forms, light, perception, poetic forms, rain, sunshine, tanka
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Fit to Print: englyn unodle crwca
What’s fit to print is not news. Our bitter, contrary views are merely stuff we seek to use as new fuel; like fools, we think we choose to fight false with what is true, wielding light that will burn through … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, balance, englyn unodle crwca, fiction, illusion, news, poetic forms, reality, truth, Welsh verse forms
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Our Sum: clogyrnach
What a world this one’s become: to have begun both deaf and dumb, then learn of singing, the art of bringing love winging; see it come! Who needs make-believe, I wonder, when there’s rain, lightning and thunder that illuminates, feeds … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, balance, battle, clogyrnach, destruction, fate, poetic forms, Welsh verse forms, wonder
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The Renaissance Myth: bref double
If genius is the thing that saves mankind by pulling it along above the mud, and with the rarest spark, inducing flames to warm against the night the coldest souls, then why does the world still seem deaf and lame? … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, atrophy, balance, beef double, daily poems, evolution, French verse forms, genius, poetic forms
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10. Wake From the Sleep of Habit
I suppose one could take this advice two different ways: to wake from the sleep of habit, but also to wake from the habit of sleep. That is for the former, to be aware of everything you do by rote, … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, awareness, balance, Ben Franklin, habit, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Montaigne, Shakespeare, sleep
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Both Kinds of Good
It should be said (at least one time in jest) that in the world exist two kinds of good to separate what matters from the rest, for use by some discerning soul who could in keening the true nature of … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, blame, daily poems, evil, good, hidden essence, nature, sonnet
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