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[04/23/06] |
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rinsed my pallette in the sink
down the drain:
a wasted rainbow
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| Rewrite of MS poem |
[01/21/06] |
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"Barons of Surburbia," Tori Amos |
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I posted an MS-themed poem a little while ago. For my final portfolio for Verse Writing, I rewrote the poem, and I am extremely satisfied with the way it turned out. Like the original, this poem is an Italian-style sonnet.
Here it is:
( Internal Conflict )
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[01/05/06] |
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I'm sure this has been wondered by many others, but really, how can an empty heart feel so, so heavy?
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| Attempt at Rescue |
[12/15/05] |
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"Paralyzed," The Cardigans |
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For my last assignment for my Verse Writing class, I had to write a nonce (invented form) poem. I wrote one about my car (which won't start and will likely need a new battery >_<). I also read this poem out loud at the poetry reading my class had this afternoon. It's funny: when I *had* to write in iambic pentameter, I had so much trouble doing so. And yet, without even trying, the first stanza of this poem is in perfect meter. Go me.
After the poem I typed up the rules for this form.
( Attempt at Rescue )
( The Rules )
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| A very short Blue/Hige piece |
[12/01/05] |
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From the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 52_flavours community:
Theme: #1, "Five Shades of White"
Character/s or Pairing: Hige/Blue
Series: Wolf's Rain
Rating: G
Notes: *Very* short piece, almost like a poem. Hige marvels at how so much beauty can be found in different shades of white.
( Shades of White )
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| I liked this quote |
[11/28/05] |
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Someone posted this on literaryquotes, and I liked the way it sounded:
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it.
-from Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
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| Wingless butterfly |
[11/21/05] |
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they're doing construction outside |
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I had to write a mixed meter poem for Verse Writing. I'm happy to finally be free of iambic pentameter.
( Wingless butterfly )
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| "The Island": Part 1, Draft 1 |
[11/13/05] |
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This poem is supposed to be blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), but the meter is off, as usual (though I must admit that I'm getting better). Anyway, here's the unrevised version of Part 1. I should let you know that it's not like my usual work, in that the imagery is totally different from what I usually do:
( The Island, Part 1 )
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| It's official... |
[11/06/05] |
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I can't hear meter! |
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...iambic pentameter hates me. I'm supposed to write ten lines of a blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) poem, and I'm having a lot of trouble. I know what I want to write about, what images and feelings I want to convey, but the iambic pentameter is really restricting me. ::sighs:: I should probably talk to my professor about this during her office hours. She already knows that I have a little trouble with meter, so maybe she could give me some pointers.
I have to memorize the first 16 lines of Paradise Lost for tomorrow.
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| nihongo no kotoba/japanese words |
[10/29/05] |
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someone playing piano in the living room |
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Tonight I'm posting a list of my favorite Japanese words. Either I like the word's English meaning, or I like the way the word sounds (I'll be writing the words in romanji, by the way):
( kotoba/words )
Cross-posted to monozukushi
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| "I look with his eyes, not at him" |
[10/29/05] |
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I just really liked what C.S. Lewis had to say about reading, so I wanted to post it here. I saw it on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) lisnews. I suppose this came up since the first Narnia movie is coming out soon:
[C.S. Lewis] believed that readers should try to share a poet's consciousness rather than study it. "I look with his eyes, not at him," wrote Lewis. "The poet is not a man who asks me to look at him; he is a man who says 'look at that' and points; the more I follow the pointing of his finger the less I can possibly see of him."
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| Tale of Genji paper |
[10/28/05] |
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So, here is my Tale of Genji paper. It's about six pages long in Microsoft Word. Now, keep in mind that this paper is only based on the excerpts of Genji that we were required to read for class. I was also constrained by length. The paper was only supposed to be five pages. It ended up being six, and I still wasn't able to include everything I wanted to. ::sighs:: Oh well. Maybe I should write a supplement to this paper...
( Gender Roles and Relationships in The Tale of Genji )
Note: If you're wondering about the sources in my MLA perenthetic references, I'll post their information later, because they're not in front of me right now.
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| I wonder if there's ever been a sonnet about MS before... |
[10/23/05] |
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For tomorrow's verse writing class, I have to write a non-Shakespearean style sonnet. So, I opted to write an Italian sonnet (where there are 14 lines, the rhyme scheme is abba abba cdc cdc, and every line is iambic pentameter). It took me about three hours to write this poem, and I'm pretty satisfied with it. I did a much better job with the iambic pentameter in this poem than in my previous sonnet (but I'm not promising it's *perfect*). When I wasn't sure what to write about, I figured I might as well write about my MS:
( Multiple Sclerosis )
I still need to memorize a sonnet for tomorrow...
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| A sonnet in progress |
[10/22/05] |
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someone's playing the piano in the dorm living room |
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I wrote this Shakespearean-style sonnet for my verse writing class. Please keep in mind that this is a *first draft* of the poem. I'm going to have to edit it some more, because the iambic pentameter is all off (I really don't have a good ear for hearing the stresses on syllables). Anyway, here's my sonnet:
( Lunar Pantheon )
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