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week 492 ~ snow instead of flowers

snow instead of flowers
though we wish cold away
spring is not yet ours
snow instead of flowers
winter’s waning hours
drag on another day
snow instead of flowers
though we wish cold away

Written by mairmusic

April 17, 2018 at 6:28 pm

Posted in March, rondeau

Tagged with cold, poetry, snow, spring

week 491 ~ winter’s thaw cracks hibernation

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winter’s thaw cracks hibernation
blubs gingerly poke their heads out
thoughts of color unfurl don’t shout
too early for jubilation
maintain some equivocation
we won’t get off this easily
to break the grip of cold will be
the work of weeks to come hold fast
dreams of warmer days will outlast
fickle March snow eventually

Written by mairmusic

March 26, 2018 at 9:10 pm

Posted in decima, March

Tagged with bulbs, cold, equivocation, jubilation, March snow, poetry, thaw, winter

week 487 ~ an incantation for spring

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an incantation for spring
wait in anticipation
‘til winter banished birds sing

teeter on faith desiring
days of warmth blue skies and sun
an incantation for spring

weeks turn to months lingering
cold distracts all hopes undone
‘til winter banished birds sing

songs that catch our ear ending
snow’s silent insulation
an incantation for spring

holding on ready to fling
windows wide still frustration
‘til winter banished birds sing

we see them in our dreams wing
their way north our fixation
an incantation for spring
‘til winter banished birds sing

Written by mairmusic

February 7, 2018 at 7:34 pm

Posted in February, villanelle

Tagged with anticipation, birds, cold, faith, frustration, hope, incantation, migration, poetry, snow, spring

week 485 ~ winter drags its chilly fingers

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winter drags its chilly fingers
‘cross the map of light returning
isolation darkness lingers

here no feathered warbling singers
disturb landscapes stark with yearning
winter drags its chilly fingers

rays in hand the sun would fling hers
out to free the frozen burning
isolation darkness lingers

poisoned ice thorns fatal stingers
pierce the heart of warmth unswerving
winter drags its chilly fingers

dreaming of change anything spurs
illogical hopes of spurning
isolation darkness lingers

our pleas in vain springtime defers
patience a lesson we’re learning
winter drags its chilly fingers
isolation darkness lingers

Written by mairmusic

January 28, 2018 at 6:43 pm

Posted in January, villanelle

Tagged with cold, darkness, frozen, illogical hope, isolation, poetry, winter

week 477 ~ cold falls like a curtain

week 462 ~ longing for cold

week 273 ~ winter’s cold

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winter’s cold
fills my boots
tales once told
winter’s cold
ends this old
year’s pursuits
winter’s cold
fills my boots

Written by mairmusic

January 7, 2014 at 12:12 pm

Posted in January, rondeau

Tagged with cold, new year, poetry, winter

week 270 ~ waiting to transform

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waiting to transform
summer lurches cold
I ride out the storm
waiting to transform
still pushing the norm
it never grows old
waiting to transform
summer lurches cold

Written by mairmusic

December 13, 2013 at 3:27 pm

Posted in December, Rio, rondeau

Tagged with change, cold, holding fast, poetry, storm, summer, the norm, transformation

week 224 ~ bright and cold I shiver

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bright and cold I shiver
walk on past yesterday
watching as hopes quiver

pause to let a sliver
of life just float away
bright and cold I shiver

sunlight floods the river
there’s no chance it will stay
watching as hopes quiver

time knows I can’t give her
any more room to play
bright and cold I shiver

lost images live blur
my resolve not to stray
watching as hopes quiver

hearing the plaintive whir
of life’s long brave melee
bright and cold I shiver
watching as hopes quiver

Written by mairmusic

January 25, 2013 at 1:54 pm

Posted in January, villanelle

Tagged with cold, hope, loss, poetry, reflection, time

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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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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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Celebrating a Year

Posts Tagged ‘cold’

week 492 ~ snow instead of flowers

week 491 ~ winter’s thaw cracks hibernation

week 487 ~ an incantation for spring

week 485 ~ winter drags its chilly fingers

week 477 ~ cold falls like a curtain

week 462 ~ longing for cold

week 273 ~ winter’s cold

week 270 ~ waiting to transform

week 224 ~ bright and cold I shiver

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