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week 321 ~ the goddess of fortune sits brooding

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the goddess of fortune sits brooding
she’s realized there’s no way to turn
twixt a rock and hard place colluding

I can’t fathom what they’re alluding
to far too exhausted to still yearn
the goddess of fortune sits brooding

beyond righteous anger including
hers and mine but it’s not your concern
twixt a rock and hard place colluding

since we know we’re simply deluding
ourselves watching bridges as they burn
the goddess of fortune sits brooding

and termites of distrust intruding
won’t be booted off stage yet though spurned
twixt a rock and hard place colluding

we pause having reached the concluding
stanza with no motion to adjourn
the goddess of fortune sits brooding
twixt a rock and hard place colluding

Written by mairmusic

December 10, 2014 at 5:33 pm

Posted in December, villanelle

Tagged with anger, bridges, brooding, burn, colluding, deluding, distrust, fortune, goddess, hard place, poetry, rock, spurned, termites

week 205 ~ time is on my side

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time is on my side
paint it black
she’s got a ticket to ride
time is on my side
nowhere to run nowhere to hide
hit the road Jack
time is on my side
paint it black

Written by mairmusic

September 15, 2012 at 8:21 am

Posted in rondeau, September

Tagged with keaving, poetry, rock, time

week 184 ~ on the screen the long-dead singer

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on the screen the long-dead singer
and his ballads of anarchy
preserved for us eternally
at the very moment we were
changing our collective minds stir
-ing the musical pot to find
our souls reflected nevermind
he wrote and we crashing into
our unexpected future knew
all stone idols had been struck blind

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Written by mairmusic

April 19, 2012 at 8:36 am

Posted in April, decima

Tagged with change, Kurt Cobain, music, Nirvana, poetry, rock, Smells Like Teen Spirit

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...!

The material on these pages belongs to me

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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