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week 676 [from week 2] I swallow my heart like a goldfish

week 454 ~ my heart fell

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my heart fell
off my sleeve
you can’t tell
my heart fell
wish me well
as I grieve
my heart fell
off my sleeve

Written by mairmusic

July 17, 2017 at 2:51 pm

Posted in June, rondeau

Tagged with family, grieve, heart, loss, poetry, wear your heart on your sleeve

week 403 ~ family grows in the heart it expands

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family grows in the heart it expands
adding those who stake a claim on our love
never stagnant sometimes out of our hands
family grows in the heart it expands
big enough to hold everyone who stands
at the door by choice or luck a sense of
family grows in the heart it expands
adding those who stake a claim on our love

Written by mairmusic

July 3, 2016 at 5:22 pm

Posted in June, rondeau

Tagged with family, heart, love, poetry

week 357 ~ there’s truth in music

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there’s truth in music
listen with your heart
each note has a kick
there’s truth in music
so go ahead pick
turn it up jump start
there’s truth in music
listen with your heart

Written by mairmusic

August 28, 2015 at 2:13 pm

Posted in August, rondeau

Tagged with choice, heart, listen, music, truth

week 338 ~ I open my heart

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I open my heart
though it feels empty
tear reason apart
I open my heart
press hope press restart
as life preempts me
I open my heart
though it feels empty

Written by mairmusic

April 4, 2015 at 6:48 pm

Posted in April, rondeau

Tagged with heart, hope, loss, poetry, restart, spring

week 319 ~ why does the roof fly off the world

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why does the roof fly off the world
from time to time leaving me bare
I reach out in the darkness where
will I find sustenance words hurled
in frustration fall broken curled
up in a ball at my feet they’ll
evaporate by morning sail
away even from memory
as my heart’s song no longer free
lies tattered trying to inhale

Written by mairmusic

November 21, 2014 at 4:59 pm

Posted in decima, November

Tagged with darkness, dreams, frustration, heart, loss, love, memory, poetry, words

week 206 ~ which box marked fragile holds your heart

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which box marked fragile holds your heart
he asks I don’t know what to say
I wrap my past pack it away
there isn’t any easy part
and though it’s time for change to start
each object holds a memory
together they have defined me
now some will stay and some will go
but I am who they made me so
my heart’s in every box you see

thanks to Sam373 for the inspiration

Written by mairmusic

September 24, 2012 at 9:32 am

Posted in decima, September

Tagged with heart, leaving, memories, moving, poetry

August 10, 2010

with 25 comments

heart full of wonder
which way lies dreaming
clouds pull me under
heart full of wonder
what time will thunder
send the rains teeming
heart full of wonder
which way lies dreaming

Written by mairmusic

August 11, 2010 at 10:36 am

Posted in August, rondeau

Tagged with dream, dreaming, heart, one shot wednesday, poetry, rain, thunder, wonder

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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Celebrating a Year

Posts Tagged ‘heart’

week 676 [from week 2] I swallow my heart like a goldfish

week 454 ~ my heart fell

week 403 ~ family grows in the heart it expands

week 357 ~ there’s truth in music

week 338 ~ I open my heart

week 319 ~ why does the roof fly off the world

week 206 ~ which box marked fragile holds your heart

August 10, 2010

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