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Sacred Words Of A Nomad Soul @davidjosephwriteshere.wordpress.com@davidjosephwriteshere.wordpress.comThe Hunt
The hunters called him uselessAs he scratched upon a rock.What they saw as wasted hoursWould outlive them all in time. Hunting thoughts inside his mind,He would think about his soulAbout gods and their darknessAnd the music sadness brings. And then he marked inside his cave,Scraping his visions on stone,Baptised by bleeding knuckles,He has learned to snare his dreams. When a primitive rhythm,Takes over his beating heartHe puts on his hunter's gearAnd stalks a herd of his thoughts. The […]https://davidjosephwriteshere.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/the-hunt/
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Relieving song, or: Rising steam
A Sijo
my pot begins to murmur beneath its plain, faithful cap; every heartbeat finds less room inside the thick, waiting steel; then comes the valve's relieving song each stanza lifts with rising steam
d’Verse: Ars poetica revisited
At d’Verse, we are encouraged to write an Ars Poetica that reveals our relationship with poetry through imagery, symbolism, or personification, showing our writing process rather than simply explaining it.
Sijo?
A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26 https://quiltr.com/?p=25332 You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! #arspoetica #daffodils #dothework #keyboard #NaPoWriMo #pencil #pens #poetry #process #sonnet #words
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The man who mingles the useful with the sweet carries the day by charming his reader and at the same time instructing him. That’s the book to enrich the publisher, to be posted over seas, and to prolong its author’s fame.
[Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci,
lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.
Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, hic et mare transit
et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 343ff (2.3.343-346) (19 BC) [tr. Blakeney; ed. Kramer, Jr. (1936)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83453/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #author #bestseller #drama #entertainment #fame #froth #lesson #literature #message #moral #pith #poetry #success #writing
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It isn’t enough for poems to be things of beauty:
Let them STUN the hearer and lead his heart where they will.
[Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto
Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83176/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #beauty #charm #craft #drama #emotion #engagement #feelings #form #impact #influence #message #moving #passion #play #poem #polish #prettiness #substance #theater #writing
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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ON READING ANOTHER POET FOR THE FIRST TIME
Few of us have the luxury
of existing in a world denuded
of concepts and signifiers —
so I take that first plunge
into your phenomenology,
your lifeworld, the bleary
blaze of your sensorium via
the gateway of your neuroses.
Did you set out to share or unburden
and, in perceiving a difference
between the two, am I saying
too much about myself?
