week 163 ~ my heart still waits though you

my heart still waits though you
can’t see it from the highway
it beats in my chest true
my heart still waits though you
drive by not someone who
knows where it’s hidden away
my heart still waits though you
can’t see it from the highway

Written by mairmusic

November 30, 2011 at 8:40 pm

Posted in November, rondeau

Tagged with poetry

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Enjoyed your poem.

slpmartin

November 30, 2011 at 10:41 pm

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- Thanks, my friend.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 1, 2011 at 12:06 am
  
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Wish it could be seen :)
A feeling of the longing heart nicely penned down.

Alcina-In need of me-2

Alcina

December 1, 2011 at 1:05 am

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- On my long drive, thinking of the rest areas, unseen from the highway, and resting hearts, on a break from relationships.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 1, 2011 at 4:00 pm
  
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poignant and forlorn, brought to mind and endless highway

mbwilliams

December 1, 2011 at 6:53 am

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- It did seem endless as I was driving on Tuesday.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 1, 2011 at 4:03 pm
  
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such longing, hope that it goes through,

well expressed emotions.

The Noiseless Cuckooclock

December 1, 2011 at 11:48 am

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- Thanks– a verse from a long drive.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 1, 2011 at 3:58 pm
  
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The agony of the unacknowledged heartbeat very simply, yet beautifully, potrayed.

polidn

December 2, 2011 at 5:07 am

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- thanks. meant to be more reflective than agonized– I’ll have to re-read since everyone feels the longing here.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 4:01 pm
  
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Yeah, things cannot be seen from the highway, one has to get closer. Nice!

shail

December 2, 2011 at 6:42 am

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- exactly!
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:59 pm
  
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Feel the longing.Lovely…

Dakshi

December 2, 2011 at 12:48 pm

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- again, must be subliminal.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:57 pm
  
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powerful longing,

excellently expressed.

:)

The Orange Tree

December 2, 2011 at 12:59 pm

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- interesting– I hadn’t realized the longing part, just the exhaustion.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:56 pm
  
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Poignant capture of the times between joy … whether a rest between people is due to abscence, misunderstanding or awaiting fate to deliver! Nicely done ~~

becca givens

December 2, 2011 at 1:19 pm

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- nice interpretation. thinking of a heart parked in a rest area while the traffic still races by on the highway– the result of a long anxious drive recently.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:54 pm
  
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i like this… insightful

voiceoftruelove

December 2, 2011 at 8:55 pm

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- thanks.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:52 pm
  
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A poem like a song! Beautiful emotions, yet so sad…
‘my heart still waits though you
can’t see it from the highway’… – those lines totally stuck in my head! :D

magher1

December 3, 2011 at 6:56 am

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- you are right! oddly, as I am a musician, the music of words seems melody-less to me until others point it out.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:50 pm
  
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I like this one a lot–you’ve inspired me to write a rondeau :)

wordcoaster

December 4, 2011 at 5:18 pm

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- fun form– have a go!
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:47 pm
  
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[...] would like to thank for the following award from the Thursday Poets’ Rally:I nominate MairMusic GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); [...]

‘Another and another’ « The Chamber of Stories

December 6, 2011 at 11:57 am

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- thanks for the nomination! never got the award though, but that’s ok.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:45 pm
  
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a lot of longing

zongrik

December 7, 2011 at 12:19 pm

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- perhaps, at least confusion.
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 13, 2011 at 3:42 pm
  
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Who am I?

A mandolinist, a bandolimist, a writer, a photographer, a wannabe Brasileira. Check my webpage for information on my music and my sometimes life in Rio.

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I have made a plan for this year, beginning on my birthday- October 16, 2008 - to keep creativity in focus in my daily life, spontaneously, reflectively, and with intention, by setting in motion several series of small events. Every day I will take a photo and record a thought. Every week I will write a sonnet and photograph myself in the context of my life. And I will post it all here. Maybe not every day, but I will maintain the schedule of each series and post as often as I can. I think this will be fun, may be interesting, and will result in a considered year of small moments stolen from a busy life and strung together to make... who knows? At this point it's just a plan. Wish me luck~ here goes!

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I have completed a year of this blog-- amazing! And I've decided to continue on, because this document has become a treasured reflective spot in my life. There will be some changes for "Year 2," beginning on my birthday, October 16, 2009. I'll expand the options for my weekly poem beyond sonnet to add some other forms-- rondeau or triolet, possibly villanelle. I just added the decima in late January. And in August I am adding the pantoum. Definitions will appear below as the forms enter this page. I'll continue to post a photo daily, but I may post several pictures taken on one day over the course of a week if I have an interesting series. I may even post an old photo if I'm writing about something I'm thinking back to. I'll continue to have fun with this project & I hope you will too. Thanks for reading!

“Year 3″

For Year 3 I tried some changes, including other people in the self-portraits that accompany my poems, adding "Musical Sundays" to post mp3s of my music, but these petered out in a few months. This is simply a place for my daily thoughts & photos, and weekly poems in the forms I love. Onward...!

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What’s a sonnet?

A sonnet is a 14-line iambic pentameter poem with a unique and characteristic rhyme scheme. They have been written in Europe and England for centuries, and usually combine viewpoint and reflection in a personal yet universal way. I call mine blank-verse sonnets and try for a simple casual scan that observes yet obscures the form. Inspirations are the American sonnets of e. e. cummings and Edna "Vince" Millay.

What’s a villanelle?

A villanelle is an early French form with 19 lines using only 2 rhymes, traditionally broken into 6 verses. It's kind of obsessive, with lines 1 & 3 repeating alternately, the 4th time as lines 18 & 19. The lines can be any length, but don't seem to vary within a poem, and subjects include love, loss and challenge. Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath all wrote them, and from the minute I typed villanelle in "Year 2 begins" I was itching to try it out because I've never written one. My first appear in Weeks 53 & 56. I've run some verses together, as many modern writers have done, for continuity and a cleaner line.

What’s a rondeau?

A rondeau is a form of medieval poetry that pre-dates the villanelle and also uses only 2 rhymes. The earliest come from an 8-line song form with 2 lines of music that repeat-- line 1 as 4 & 7, and line 2 as 8, rhyming the rest in a characteristic pattern. The result is a sturdy little poem that makes its point thoughtfully, and less obsessively than the villanelle, perhaps because the generating couplet is unrhymed, and the lines don't need to be the same length, just able to be sung or spoken in the same amount of time. The first ones appear in weeks 55 & 57. Sometimes the poetic form, sans music, is called a triolet.

What’s a decima?

A decima is an early 10-line Spanish poetic form, with a distinct break after the first 4. It uses an 8-syllable line and has an unusual but characteristic rhyme scheme. It's also a 19th-century form of improvised Cuban song so I thought it would work well in this blog format. My first appear in weeks 66 & 69.

What’s a pantoum?

A Malaysian form from the 15th century-- how exotic! It's a series of quatrains, w/ lines 2 & 4 repeating as lines 1 & 3 in the next. The last quatrain also uses lines 1 & 3 from the first quatrain, with the first line ending the poem. So every line is used twice. My first one is week 95.

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