Fri 9 Feb 2018
Day two, week one – haiku*
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Fri 9 Feb 2018
Dear illusion
Posted by PJ under illusion, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:
“The illusion that exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.â€
—Aleksandr Pushkin, The Hero
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 8 Feb 2018
I’m going to try something here
Posted by PJ under art, cinquain, haiku, nature, poetry, poetry project, tanka
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But the writing…fits and starts, can’t keep going on anything, things bubbling below the surface, but they won’t come out. I need to write. I long for it so hard, so deep. I think I need to force my own hand, so I’m going to try doing little things with that, too. I remember a writing teacher many long yarns ago who made us do five weeks (out of 20) of nothing but haiku, tanka, and cinquains before he’d let us do any other kind of writing. We chafed at that, some dropped the class, but for those of us who stuck with it this discipline turned into an amazingly freeing exercise. So…
Haiku
Poems of 3 lines and 17 syllables:
Line 1, 5 syllables
Line 2, 7 syllables
Line 3, 5 syllables
Tanka
Poems of 5 lines, 31 syllables:
Line 1, 5 syllables
Line 2, 7 syllables
Line 3, 5 syllables
Line 4, 7 syllables
Line 4, 7 syllables
Cinquain
An American form in imitation of the Japanese forms above. (Some cheat and title these poems, allowing themselves an extra line.)
Poems of 5 lines with iambic accents:
Line 1, 1 accent
Line 2, 2 accents
Line 3, 3 accents
Line 4, 4 accents
Line 5, 1 accent
Can I keep up the discipline? What discipline should I set myself? One a day? One a week?
I’ll try one a day, but that may be ambitious. One a week seems too little. So maybe I’ll compromise. I have to do at least 3 a week. If I do more, that’s great, but at least those three. So, here we go.
Edited to add:Â I started this on a Thursday, so my week runs Thursday to Thursday.
Day One – Tanka (with a thanks to mountoregano and a side thanks to Billy Collins)
The daffodils hold,
their green ranks standing silent.
The peach tree, chafing
with impatience, holds forth in
full spring, laughing pink blossoms.
Thu 8 Feb 2018
Alive
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Random quote of the day:
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.â€
—Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 7 Feb 2018
Amazing
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Random quote of the day:
“Almost every haiku says the same thing: it’s amazing to be alive here.â€
—Billy Collins, The Paris Review, No. 159, Fall 2001
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 6 Feb 2018
Decency
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Random quote of the day:
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.â€
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dartmouth College Commencement, June 14, 1953
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 2 Feb 2018
The next step
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Random quote of the day:
“Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.â€
—Agnes Martin, “On the Perfection Underlying Life,†lecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, February 14, 1973
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 1 Feb 2018
Truthiness
Posted by PJ under art, lies, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:
“This is the slyness of art: If you tell enough lies, you’re bound to say something true.â€
—William Meredith, The Paris Review, Issue 95, Spring 1985
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
