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Shaping Words: January 2015
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Thursday, January 22, 2015. Syllabic Tanka Day for 2015: The Translations of Edwin A. Cranston. Syllabic Tanka Day for 2015. Tanka is one of the oldest continuously practiced syllabic forms in the world. It has a written history of about 1400 years; but I suspect its origins go back into the mists of time. In Japan it is the central poetic form out of which both renga and haiku have emerged. Volume Two is called A Waka Anthology: Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance. Crans...
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Shaping Words: The Sound of a Rhyme
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Friday, July 17, 2015. The Sound of a Rhyme. The Sound of a Rhyme. Warm sixth month morning. Winding pathways in the park. Cloudless sky, earth dust. And the sound of rustling leaves. Journos statements on T.V. Standing on a low sand dune. By the Pacific Ocean. The cliff’s corrosion. As the wind dissolves the stone. On a cloudless night. The full moon’s achingly bright. Shadows from an owl in flight. A brief dream-like sight. Above a construction site. A stain of mildew.
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Shaping Words: March 2015
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Monday, March 30, 2015. The Shapes of our Singing: Part 3. The Shapes of our Singing. A Review: Part 3. In Part 3 of this review I am going to touch on a few other chapters from the book that focus on syllabic forms and then follow with some concluding remarks. The Shapes of our Singing. The Shapes of our Singing. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The Shapes of our Singing: Part 2. The Shapes of our Singing. A Review: Part 2. Gently on my cheek. The light kiss of my lover;.
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Shaping Words: A Ghazal for Our Dreams
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. A Ghazal for Our Dreams. A Ghazal for Our Dreams. I visited you in the land of dreams. I learned what is true in the land of dreams. A polluted stream, a nightmare, a fiend,. A distorted view from our waking dreams. On the sidewalk they meet, they kiss and greet,. Love is always new in the land of dreams. Dry leaves are clinging, an old man’s singing,. Our days here are few in the land of dreams. A tree becomes a bird without saying a word. Forma...
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Shaping Words: August 2014
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Monday, August 11, 2014. My latest book, is finally published! Is subtitled, The Art of the Solo Renga. It is, as far as I know, the first collection of solo renga in English. Section 3 of Microcosmos. Contains essays and asides. Some of the essays are on technical matters, such as the way season and time interact in renga. And some are expressions of appreciation. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to Shaping Words. My name is Jim Wilson and I am your host. Shaping...
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Shaping Words: June 2015
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Monday, June 29, 2015. Unexceptional Part 6 – Mongrel Languages. The tendency among ELH practitioners is to focus obsessively on the micro aspects of the Japanese language. Usually this means a focus at the level of the phoneme. Because the phonemes of Japanese and English differ it seems plausible, at first, that there is some essential difference between the two languages. Means . . . The two major linguistic influences in the case of Japanese have been Chi...Some sour...
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Shaping Words: February 2015
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Monday, February 23, 2015. A Ghazal for the Gardener. A Ghazal for the Gardener. A white rose in full bloom in the garden,. The full moon will rise soon in the garden. A wizard sits down next to a lizard. While calmly casting runes in the garden. A crush of tourists who are in a rush,. For others there’s no room in the garden. A drunken loser, a longtime boozer,. Faintly whispers a tune in the garden. Lost in the city, feeling self-pity,. Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
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Shaping Words: Book Launch: Even in Winter
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Book Launch: Even in Winter. Book Launch: Even in Winter. I have just published my latest collection of poems. It is called Even in Winter. In this collection I take a new turn in how I have put the poems together. Previous collections have been form specific: either the entire book was dedicated to a single form (such as Microcosmos. Which is dedicated to renga, or White Roses. In Even in Winter. Fibonacci: 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21, etc. My name is Jim...
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Shaping Words: Unexceptional Part 6
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Monday, June 29, 2015. Unexceptional Part 6 – Mongrel Languages. The tendency among ELH practitioners is to focus obsessively on the micro aspects of the Japanese language. Usually this means a focus at the level of the phoneme. Because the phonemes of Japanese and English differ it seems plausible, at first, that there is some essential difference between the two languages. Means . . . The two major linguistic influences in the case of Japanese have been Chi...Some sour...
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Shaping Words: December 2014
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Exploring English Syllabic Verse. Monday, December 29, 2014. I like to walk on the beach by the sea. Along the coast of Sonoma County. I enjoy feeling the give of the sand. Where the continent ends, gives up on land,. Watching the ebbing and flowing of waves,. Feeling the flow of the wind in my hand. I can remember walking hand-in-hand. On a summer afternoon by the sea. As dreams of the future rolled in like waves. Along the coast of Sonoma County. The wind has carved strange-shaped cliffs from the land,.