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Questioning
The exercise this week relates to the poetic foot the dactyl, which is basically a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. A typical waltz pattern, you could say. Here’s the example I used, with successive stanzas in dactylic monometer, … Continue reading
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Tagged choices, dactyl, decisions, exercises, journeys, poetic forms, questions
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On Reaching Forty in a Week
In a week I will be forty. If my mother’s right it’s time to get my act together and find more delight in doing what needs to be done to build something to show for two score spent in dissipation … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, aging, birthdays, choices, expectations, failure, success
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The View You Choose
Having just seen the new Harry Potter film, I was contemplating the underlying message I find in JK Rowling’s work. No, it’s not some dark Satanic point that seeks to overthrow the basic power structure of the Christo-centric universe. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged choices, Christianity, living, magic, mundane, perception, spirituality, tolerance
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moving edward, a wall said longing
come fall with me, he said, where i have lain alone beside myself and watched in silence screaming it is not for me to say or not to speak the words that self-destruct and creep unseen between your lips where … Continue reading
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Tagged abdication, choices, decisions, longing, love, success, Wallace Simpson
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Here is Where I Am
Could have been famous, so I’ve always said; those Hollywood notions still mess with my head. Should be free of them by now, I suppose – just takes accepting the life that I chose. Paths come together, and then they … Continue reading
Plan B is the Reality of Plan A
Sometimes, I wonder if the choices made in the heat of the moment, out of my head, by comparison to some plan would have played out differently if I’d chosen that plan instead. While in some way that structure might … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, choices, daily poems, decisions, fate, planning, plans, regret
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