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It's Poetry Time!

8/29/2015

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Last year, I took a song writing course from Coursera, and it was super cool.  A great no-pressure way to learn about song writing.

Now, I have joined a poetry workshop, also through Coursera, called Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop,  led by Douglas Kearney, a Poet/performer/ librettist.


Week 1 Poetry Prompts:

The Found Poem: A Brand New poem in Three Easy Steps
Grab a paragraph of text from a book or on the web and make a found poem by breaking a passage in to lines. A poem is more than line broken prose, but this exercise can help you experiment with rhythm and sound quickly.

The Found Poems:

(#1) 
To quote Douglas Kearney in this course's introduction....

Poetry 
orchestrates its
music,
arguments,
tensions, and
environments via
arrangements of
language into

lines and stanzas.

The line 
break is perhaps 
the most conspicuous signature 
tool in the poet's toolkit.

Do you 
break for 
sound, 
sense, 
visual effect, or
shape?
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 (#2) 
What Aldous Huxley saw...

A bunch of flowers
Shining with their own inner light.

Those folds in my pants-
What a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity!

...When the Doors of Perception were open...

I was seeing what Adam had seen
on the morning of his own creation-
The miracle, moment
by
moment, of
naked existence.
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(#3)
Forward of Brave New World:

Chronic remorse,
as all moralists are agreed,
is a most undesirable sentiment.

If you have behaved badly,
Repent,
Make what amends you can
and address yourself to the task of
behaving better
next time,

On no account brood over your 
wrongdoing.
Rolling in the muck is not the best way of
getting clean.
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(#4)
A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea (based on a book by Michael Ian Black)

What could be
more fun
than gathering a
few hundred pigs together
for a grand parade,
and then watching them
proudly march together
in perfect formation
down the finest boulevard
of your hometown?
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(#5)
The Skeptical Cartomancer

Believe it or not, I am a skeptic.
Such a label might be odd 
for an author of occult books.

But I'm a Skeptic
in the older sense of the word:
I find it hard to believe 
on hearsay alone.
I need data-
either scientific data
or personal experience-
to believe a claim is true.

Moreover, I always keep in mind 
the alternate ways of interpreting data: 
My divinations 
may be self-delusions,
My religious experience, 
hallucinations,
My neighbors, 
figments of my imagination.
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(#6)
How to Talk With the Universe (from Understanding Yourself, by Dale Carlson)

So, first sit
down.

Sit in a chair or sit 
on the floor.
Legs crossed, or 
on the floor.
Do not lean against the chair back or wall.
Back straight, shoulders down and relaxed.
Lower your eyes to the floor, or close them.

Take 

a 

few 

deep 

breaths.

Draw the air 
into your belly
And bring it up 
through your diaphragm 
and into your lungs.

Slow-
ly

Let the 
breath out

Slowly,
Back down 
through your diaphragm.
Tighten your belly and push all the air out.
Keep
Your
Attention
On
Your
Breath-
In, and
Out, and
In, and
Out...

Thoughts will occur.

Watch          them          pass          through          your          mind.

Do not follow them. 
Note them.

Let them pass.
Bring your attention back to your breath-
In, and
Out, and
In, and 
Out...

Watch your thoughts
come          and           go.

Do not hang onto any of them.
Do not let them pull you            Away
from
where 
You
are.

The trick here is that there is no trick.
Do 
Nothing.
There is nothing to do.
In, and
Out, and 
In, and
Out...
 
When the mind quiets, eventually,
The you of you
will not interfere with your connection to
the Universe
And you feel 
Peaceful- in this stillness.

Your troubles and the troubles of the world
Fade
Away.

After practicing meditation for a while, you will feel connections to 
everything and 
everyone.
If you are lucky you may hear the breath of 
the Universe and feel a high 
you have never known, before.

Remember, 
your thoughts will always be thunk.
Don't think about them.
(You're thinking about them, now-
Aren't you?-
Because I told you not to!)

Watch them,
Let         them         pass. Don't follow them.

Don't lapse into scripts or daydreams.
Eventually, thoughts and scenarios, nervous lists of things done and to do, questions about what on earth you're doing just sitting there-

All

Slow

Down.

Leave spaces.

It is in those spaces between thoughts, when
All that talk,
The chattering of the Self, it's memories and knowledge and problems,
All that has been taught- 
It is in those gaps that the Universe

Speaks to us.

When the "I" of us
Stops,
We touch the 

Everything.
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Breaking Good: Chop a Block of Famous Poetry
Below is a piece of lineated poetry that has been stripped of line breaks—I’ve also gotten rid of capitalization except where grammatically necessary. Copy the bolded text below into a new document or write it out by hand, adding line breaks where you think they should go.

tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. out, out, brief candle! life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
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Without any further adieu...

Tomorrow, and 
tomorrow, and 
tomorrow, creeps in 
this petty 
pace from day to 
day, to the last 
syllable of 
recorded 
time;

And all our 
yesterdays have 
lighted fools the way to dusty 
death.

Out, 
out, 
brief 
candle!

Life's but a walking 
shadow, a poor 
player that struts and 
frets his 
hour upon the 
stage and 
then is 
heard 
no 
more:

It is a tale 
told by an 
idiot, 
full of sound and 
fury, 
signifying 

nothing.
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Here are some of the books, I used:
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Copyright.  All works are original, as written by moi, Nicola Schneider, on this date: Aug. 28, 2015.
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