week 116 ~ Rio is in my heart

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week 116 ~ Rio is in my heart

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Rio is in my heart
I feel the door open
restoring a lost part
in my story and when

I feel the door open
I want to walk through now
in my story and when
will I discover how

I want to walk through now
that’s why I have returned
will I discover how
lessons wait to be learned

that’s why I have returned
I feel like I’m not done
lessons wait to be learned
awakened by the sun

I feel like I’m not done
restoring a lost part
awakened by the sun
Rio is in my heart

Written by mairmusic

December 31, 2010 at 9:53 am

Posted in December, pantoum

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December 31, 2010 at 10:10 am

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you are right on time,

Glad that you made it to the rally.
have a smiling last day of 2010…

awakened by the sun
Rio is in my heart..

those lines are divine, hope that you have fun!

Jingle

December 31, 2010 at 10:35 am

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- thanks JI! See you in 2011!
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 31, 2010 at 10:43 am
  
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Glad your return was successful, Marilynn, that photo is amazing. Loved your poem that illustrates your love of Rio and what new lessons are waiting for you.

Happy New Year–may you have the best that life has to offer in the coming year.

Gayle xoxo

Bodhirose

December 31, 2010 at 12:47 pm

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- And I’m sending the best right back your way! Happy New Year!
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 31, 2010 at 5:42 pm
  
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fantastic poem.

wish you a marvelous 2011 my sweet dear friend. Wonderful years may follow it to fill up your life.

trisha

December 31, 2010 at 1:27 pm

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- Trisha, your words mean the world to me. Happy New Year to you as well, my friend!
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 31, 2010 at 5:41 pm
  
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It sounds as if the new year shall start in a marvelous fashion.

slpmartin

December 31, 2010 at 1:32 pm

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- Absolutely! Hope yours is brilliant!!!
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 31, 2010 at 5:40 pm
  
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I wonder what’s on your mind. Oh, Rio! Rio is in your heart. Blessings to you…

Carol Ann Hoel

December 31, 2010 at 5:14 pm

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- Happy New Year, Carol!
  
  mairmusic
  
  December 31, 2010 at 5:39 pm
  
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I hope you found what you were looking for…beautiful picture.
http://lynnaima.wordpress.com/

Life: Between the lines

December 31, 2010 at 8:31 pm

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- not yet…
  
  mairmusic
  
  January 2, 2011 at 12:58 pm
  
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Love how the sun has awakened you to an open door at Rio! Lovely flowing poem!

Gemma @ Greyscale

December 31, 2010 at 9:52 pm

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- ah, thanks! & felz ano novo!
  
  mairmusic
  
  January 2, 2011 at 12:53 pm
  
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Nice poem,seems like Rio is gonna be in your mind and heart for the rest of the year;)Happy new year!

Vishwas Anand

January 1, 2011 at 8:21 am

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- yes, I suspect it is back– feliz ano novo!
  
  mairmusic
  
  January 2, 2011 at 12:36 pm
  
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You may still be in process, but the poem is well done.

Jamie Dedes, all rights reserved

January 3, 2011 at 7:33 pm

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- Thanks, Jamie!
  
  mairmusic
  
  January 4, 2011 at 6:53 pm
  
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great combo with the shot!

hermio

January 5, 2011 at 10:03 am

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- thanks for reading!
  
  mairmusic
  
  January 5, 2011 at 10:24 am
  
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January 6, 2011 at 12:03 am

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wow! its like a song.. mine for this thursday- http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/hunger/

fiveloaf

January 6, 2011 at 5:41 am

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- Thanks– you are right, Rio is a song in my heart
  
  mairmusic
  
  January 6, 2011 at 7:57 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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