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Thanks, Jingle! My Week #15 poem is below– a villanelle anticipating spring.

Written by mairmusic

April 21, 2010 at 7:58 pm

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Thursday Poets Rally Week 15 (April 22-28, 2010) « Jingle

April 21, 2010 at 8:14 pm

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Nice post,
thank you for the wonderful acceptance.
cheers!

Ji

April 21, 2010 at 8:24 pm

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- of course! thank YOU!
  
  mairmusic
  
  April 21, 2010 at 8:43 pm
  
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aw…thank you. smiles.

brian

April 21, 2010 at 9:07 pm

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- I am a big fan of your writing. and, yes, smiles.
  
  mairmusic
  
  April 21, 2010 at 9:09 pm
  
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http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/awards-from-the-blogging-universe/the-celebrate-poet-of-march-award-more/

5 awards for you.
Happy Thursday!

Ji

April 22, 2010 at 2:10 pm

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great one …
check out mine at
http://blog.divyanshu.net/2010/04/thursday-poets-rally/

Divyanshu

April 22, 2010 at 4:36 pm

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Thanks! I did & left a comment. welcome to Jingle’s Rally!

mairmusic

April 22, 2010 at 4:48 pm

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yes, you are cool!

I refer to some,
this week,
two poets are nominated, but their names are not included because they rejected previously,

I notify them when I make announcement,
I remind them before it is due,

they ignored my comment,
thus
this week, I replaced their names with others…

please be easy,
if you have followed the rules,
rest for sure…

many people did awesome job this week,
I must think of some new poets who have never won the award before, thus my pick is fresh ones mostly,
some old ones are on the list due to nominations…
thank you.
Happy Friday!

Ji

April 23, 2010 at 10:36 am

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my post or remarks intend to explain to previous winners that why poets they nominated this week could not be in the list…

it is an issue,
you know,
some poets expect awards,
they carry pride,
but openly reject it or find excuses not accepting it,
my heart aches when I see a poet ignore my instruction, it has been going on for weeks, I must tell that they hurt me when they do that, they are nominated by a fellow poet, which is an honor…

well.
enough said.
I have to prepare my post for
family Friday,
plus poetry awards…

more…
have fun at your work.

Ji

April 23, 2010 at 10:40 am

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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.

What is this?

I made a plan, 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 take a photo and record a thought. Every week I write a poem and post a photograph of myself in the context of my life. i don't post every day, but I maintain the schedule of each series and post as often as I can. Before I began I wrote, "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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“Years 2 – 6” — so what’s changed?

I decided to continue on after a year, because this document had become a treasured reflective spot in my life. There are some changes in "Year 2," expanding options for my weekly poem beyond sonnet to add some other forms-- rondeau or triolet, villanelle. I added the decima in late January 2010, and the pantoum in August. Definitions of each form appear below. I continue to post a photo daily, but 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. For Year 3 I tried 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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Everything published here was created especially for this project and is owned and copyright by me. When the project is complete I may do something concrete with some of it. So enjoy, but please, if you want to share more than a quote or two send people here, don't displace my work from its context or authorship.

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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