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VAL MAGNUSON Cathedral Immured How ravishing you are! and how divine! Your allegiance to true enlightenment, flawless- How sweetly and gently you submit me to your heavens- How splendid is even your faintest image How artfully you camouflage yourself among the shadows And mysteriously veil your countenance- How gayly your sky ribbons sing at daybreak How piercing your evening songs How true you are and how imposing- I travel your paths and ascend your peaks I pass through your vales and within your cathedral immured I find your visions in golden states I find delight in your mountains And peace in your valleys I see strength in your stone lines How well I know your spirit- You are fragile and mighty- gentle and masterful, receptive and inflexible, serene and hidden- I have crested your ocean and meandered your streams Eternity's voice is your mouth I see time reflecting your melodies In you, I hear life, speak to life You invite me to your spring And lead me into your meadow I open the transoms and portals of my soul to you- I love your Voices, Your trinity: Quill, Ink, and Vellum I love you, Poetry The Oxford English Dictionary defines REPAIR: Concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; resort, frequent or habitual going; making one's way; to arrive; to dwell; to heal, to cure, to recover; to renew; (AND!) to fix to original condition. In each sense, www.poetryrepairs.com

"Poetry endangers the established order in the soul."   poetryREpairs v07.09:117

BACK | HOME SUBSCRIBE PS : Sponsor Poetry visit Poetry Sponsors STEVE GILLMAN MECHANICAL POETRY - Part 3 Have you ever read the lyrics of a Simon and Garfunkle song? Pure poetry. Want to write poems like that? Start copying them. Let me explain. Creativity is somewhat of a myth. It isn't that it doesn't exist, but people's ideas about it are mis-informed. Many believe that to be creative is to come up with something completely new. There isn't an artist or inventor out there who has done this. Somebody had to write the first four-line verse or haiku poem, right? Now is everyone that uses these forms an uncreative copy-cat? No, of course not. We must copy forms, general ideas and techniques, so why not do it more systematically? Poem Writing Tricks Copy a poem you like, and then play with the elements. Part of the beauty of a poem is its structure and rhythm. Why not insert your own words into that, to see what happens? Here is the last part of a poem titled "Gratitude." It started by painting a picture of the mountains,and then; Words fail, as they should... So there is nothing to say. There is nothing to say. There is nothing. Is nothing. Nothing.... But gratitude .. Now, if you take the general "gimmick" of the diminishing lines, you could insert all sorts of thoughts. An example: .. Pain returns, as it must.... And to where can I turn for relief?. To where can I turn?. Where can I?. Where? . But to life .. Shameless? No more so than the second time somebody wrote a four-line verse. New words have created a new poem. In the context of a longer poem, this copying of form in one verse might not even be noticed. .. What is creativity if you don't create something? Use whatever tricks and techniques you need to start creating poetry. Steve Gillman has been playing with poetry for thirty years. He and his wife Ana created the game "Deal-A-Poem," which can be accessed for free at: http://www.dealapoem.com The novice copying the masters is a long established tradition. JH

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from vMM.10:116 ABIGAIL B. CALKIN The Washout On the edge of the creekbed washout lay the carcassed head of a horse. On the dried blood of the stump of her neck on her white blazed nose in her nostrils on her tongue in her ears on her eyes thousands of white segmented maggots wormed one over another greedily searching still fresh meat. Black flies, blue flies, yellow jackets dove in the white heat of day to feast their small buzzing bodies on the blazed head. poetryREpairs.com seeks volunteer editors to expand poetryREpairs via "language specific" subdomains; for example: fr.poetryrepairs.us to create a network of truly 'Contemporary' and 'International' sites. If you are fluent in a language other than English and you wish to help, please edit a one or two poems; send the poems and a paragraph 'about you' to editor@poetryrepairs.zzn.com .

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