dVerse Poets Pub Today’s Form For All prompt is to write a Quatern A Garden Once Begun Today, I finished my gardenOver four days I toiled in soilThe hoe broke through thick roots and rocksAs if last year’s work never was And I dug up such a large rockToday; I finished my gardenIn the sameContinue reading “A Garden Once Begun”
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How Gravity Affects Composition
In my last abstractions post, I talked about The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts by Rudolf Arnheim, and the ideas of centric and eccentric composition. Arnheim goes on to talk about how forces like gravity can effect composition which I found interesting. Arnheim says, “Walking downhill, dropping, orContinue reading “How Gravity Affects Composition”
She Says Peculiarity is Orange
For those readers who are wondering where my Reading Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN) post is, those posts are on hold for now. I’m still reading and taking notes on a novel a week, I’m just not into spending the time writing about them right now. We’re having some early summer weather here in theContinue reading “She Says Peculiarity is Orange”
Dialectic Composition: Centricity and Eccentricity
While contemplating the next steps in my study of contradictory abstract nouns, I started reading The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts by Rudolf Arnheim, and realized that focusing on composition, both in my images and in my poetry is a logical next step. Arnheim proposes that there areContinue reading “Dialectic Composition: Centricity and Eccentricity”
Cat-scratch Reveille
At dVerse Poets Pub for today’s MTB Critique and Craft prompt we are: I chose “Reveille” by A. E. Housman from my copy of The Great Modern Poets edited by Michael Schmidt. Drag the arrows to switch between the two poems.
Poetry Month Challenges Day 30: Zeal and Zealousness
Zeal & Zealousness Finding the contradictory nature in today’s abstract nouns was an interesting and challenging exercise. Many would say that zeal and zealousness have the same meaning, however, zeal is a feeling and zealousness is being full of or characterized by that feeling. I thought writer Harvey Ardman’s answer to the question of howContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 30: Zeal and Zealousness”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 29: Yearning and Yield
Yearning and Yield I still absolutely love the image I made for yearning last year. Much of my current yearning—strong, persistent craving or desire accompanied by tenderness or sadness for something unattainable or distant—to create thought-provoking images that express the contradictory nature of life, began last year during the A to Z challenge with myContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 29: Yearning and Yield”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 28: Xanadu and Xylography
Xanadu & Xylography Last year I had a lot of fun with Xanadu, the mythical paradise from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan, and the muse’s roller-rink in the Olivia Newton John movie. I made a rollerskate filter and attempted a shape poem in the shape of a rollerskater. Today and tomorrow, with this wonderfulContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 28: Xanadu and Xylography”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 27: Wonder and Wisdom
Wonder & Wisdom Encyclopedia.com says wonder is “a state of mind excited by the perception of novelty or of something strange or not well understood. Both plato and aristotle speak of wonder as the point of origin for philosophy. In the Theaetetus, Socrates is recorded as saying, “Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, andContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 27: Wonder and Wisdom”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Marcus Aurelius Value & Vanity I found the contradiction of value and vanity in the definition of vanity itself:Continue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 26: Value and Vanity”
Experience Writing 