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A Bead of Words
A little meme from Word beads on Sentence Strings: For some reason that defied all logic, Stan chose to seclude himself in his workshop each Sunday afternoon. He would spend hours immersed on the internet, each keystroke part of an … Continue reading
LJ Interests Meme Results
Borrowed from Ed Book. After reading his results, I was intringued, but did not imagine that my own results would prove equally as insightful. I’m really quite surprised at how closely this set of ten selected interests REALLY sums up … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bukowski, exercises, Gil Scott-Heron, India, Lefty Frizzell, personal history, revolution, sonnet, The Perennial Philosophy, Vedanta, Zen
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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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Optimistic anapestics
When the world is so full that it fails to react to the tears of a child, it has lost any hope; and when cries in the night go unheard and are lost in the noise of the street, we … Continue reading
Iambs and Trochees
IAMBICS: Until the world returns to sane, I will not fail to write. These words, though just small things, can burst through walls; there must be words of peace. Inside my head the world is pure, and thoughts, like rain … Continue reading
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Tagged conviction, exercises, iambs, meter, poetics, poetry, redemption, trochaic, war, writing
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