week 208 ~ what’s fixed always will be broken

what’s fixed always will be broken
and what’s now new will soon get old
and where the time goes no one’s told
me I guess some things aren’t spoken
of down the rabbit hole again
my friend and who knows where we’ll land
this time stick your head in the sand
but the days march on relentless
you ask and if I had to guess
I’d say entropy will expand

entropy: the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system

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Written by mairmusic

October 3, 2012 at 12:06 pm

Posted in decima, October

Tagged with broken, entropy, equilibrium, poetry, stasis, time

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Ah…the poem reminds me of a discussion I had not too long ago with my friend…we concluded that entropy will expand also.

slpmartin

October 3, 2012 at 12:55 pm

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- Yes, inevitably.
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:12 pm
  
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words of wisdom or close observation here,
glad to read.

:)

Yielday Pittzheng

October 3, 2012 at 2:33 pm

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- Thanks for your comment.
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:11 pm
  
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What’s fixed will become “was once broken”. Though might not be as good as new – that’s imperfect – but life is never perfect in the first place. The mistakes and lessons learnt are what makes life colourful and this signifies growth in us. I enjoyed the uncertainty and disorder in the system. Keep it up!

Die Reise meines Leben

October 3, 2012 at 3:19 pm

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- We do. That’s what we do.
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:11 pm
  
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Splendid write. As always your poetry always shine through. Good to read you again.

Cheers!

Emmanuel Ibok

October 3, 2012 at 3:40 pm

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- Thanks, Emmanuel– will be over when the spinning stops to read you.
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:10 pm
  
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Inevitable maybe, is entropy, but we can make some fine words with it, like you do here!

mbwilliams

October 3, 2012 at 5:43 pm

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- Interesting comment– thanks!
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:10 pm
  
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Rather interesting work, short and concise. Wonderfully written!

systematicweasel

October 4, 2012 at 9:31 am

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- Thanks for reading.
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:09 pm
  
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very sense making headline.

Mish Foster

October 4, 2012 at 2:19 pm

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- Interesting, thanks!
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:08 pm
  
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I loved this piece … unique !!!

Green Speck

October 5, 2012 at 5:39 am

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- Thanks!
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:08 pm
  
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powerful talent.

Bristo Jiu

October 5, 2012 at 1:11 pm

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- Appreciate your comment.
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:07 pm
  
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so very true!

Sharmishtha Basu

October 11, 2012 at 2:49 am

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- In all of our lives.
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 20, 2012 at 7:03 pm
  
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Reblogged this on INTO THE BARDO and commented:
Mandolinist, composer, educator and writer Marilynn Mair, posts a poem on her blog once a week. It’s always a treat: sonnet, villanelle, decima, rondeau, or pantoum … It’s an event I look forward to. This one is from her 208th week of blogging. Jamie Dedes

Explorations in Sacred Space

October 22, 2012 at 5:14 am

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- Thanks, Jamie! The poem formatting seems to have disappeared though– could you fix that?
  
  mairmusic
  
  October 22, 2012 at 7:56 am
  
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  - No. They have to click through to see the correct formating. Reblogging doesn’t allow for it. Sorry … There have been a number of click through those, judging by the stats.
    
    Thanks for a fabujous poem.
    
    Explorations in Sacred Space
    
    October 24, 2012 at 12:41 pm
  - Thanks for the re-blog!
    
    mairmusic
    
    October 29, 2012 at 7:23 pm

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.

What is this?

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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“Year 2″ begins– so what’s changing?

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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