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Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing, such as manifestos, biographies, essays, and novels . From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a fundamental creative act using language.
Poetry often uses particular forms and conventions to suggest alternative meanings in the words, or to evoke emotional or sensual responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, metaphor, simile, and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.
Some forms of poetry are specific to particular cultures and genres, responding to the characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. While readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as being written in lines based upon rhyme and regular meter, there are traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other approaches to achieve rhythm and euphony. Much of modern British and American poetry is to some extent a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing (among other things) the principle of euphony itself, to the extent that sometimes it deliberately does not rhyme or keep to set rhythms at all. In today's globalized world poets often borrow styles, techniques and forms from diverse cultures and languages.
The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer (in Mesopotamia, now Iraq), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus. Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the Old Iranian books the Gathic Avesta and Yasna, the Roman national epic, Virgil's Aeneid, and the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.
The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulted in "poetics"—the study of the aesthetics of poetry. Some ancient societies, such as the Chinese through the Shi Jing, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, developed canons of poetic works that had ritual as well as aesthetic importance. More recently, thinkers have struggled to find a definition that could encompass formal differences as great as those between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi, as well as differences in context spanning Tanakh religious poetry, love poetry, and rap.
Context can be critical to poetics and to the development of poetic genres and forms. Poetry that records historic events in epics, such as Gilgamesh or Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, will necessarily be lengthy and narrative, while poetry used for liturgical purposes (hymns, psalms, suras, and hadiths) is likely to have an inspirational tone, whereas elegy and tragedy are meant to evoke deep emotional responses. Other contexts include Gregorian chants, formal or diplomatic speech, political rhetoric and invective, light-hearted nursery and nonsense rhymes, and even medical texts.
The Polish historian of aesthetics, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, in a paper on "The Concept of Poetry," traces the evolution of what is in fact two concepts of poetry. Tatarkiewicz points out that the term is applied to two distinct things that, as the poet Paul Valéry observed, "at a certain point find union. Poetry [...] is an art based on language. But poetry also has a more general meaning [...] that is difficult to define because it is less determinate: poetry expresses a certain state of mind."
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THE SOLDIER
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'A Poem to Honor Our Soldiers...Fallen and Standing.'
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The Mother's Song by Jean Auel
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Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on January 19, 2011 at 2:47pm
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He Comes
He comes to me everynight in a dream
me and my faceless love set and talk for hours
and everynight before he leaves i tell him that i know this is a dream
and i ask when will i see u and feel your touch in the real world
he tells me over and over again that i am not ready
this has been going on since i was 13teen and still my soulmate has yet
to step out of my dreams and into realitywhy does he come to me in my dreams
by jassmine 2010
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Yuletown
Hickory farm village / Viewmaster square
Spy the crowds so unaware
Flagellant, naked, and scarred
Adorned with holly and ivy
See the trickster’s glint of mirth in my eyeBeard frozen / stark white mirrors
Alighting my thoughts with wonder and fear
For my magic hat came from nowhereCome forth – rise up!
Warm your souls by my fire!
There’s a place at the table
And room at the Inn
For another sorcerer in YuletownI am a long lost friend draped in dark robes
A mad Russian monk
Unleashed from the ecstatic sweat and skin
Of Khlysty cellars in old SiberiaThe “glad tidings” I do not bring
They are not needed – so much the better!Pagan innocence released from its fetters
Off its knees or upon them – as ye please!Old and ageless children
Reach deep into your bottomless bags
Light your candles, burn your pyres
Chase shadows deeper into corners where they growRed is our sign of blood laughter running
Spirit mingled with the juice of the Satyr-Slut within
Green is our tune of endless return
New songs written, sung, and singingBuried are our dead
In love yet living
Ever to be reborn
In the Mystery of MakingFree is our day
Right now and on the way
Sun will shine with resurrections seamless
In This WorldNow is our time
For giant strides
And footfalls that echo in the pavement canyonsTake your part in the play
Direct your role
With audacity that blankets
A blessing for everythingRe-baptize the Forbidden
With mongrel purity
-as the good and the holy –
and the “sacred unearthly” as a thin lie – overstretched!The grave awaits
And the other side – a mysterious curtain call
For further stages of heroic loves and deeds
Defying ignorance, defying death, defying fear!Hickory farm village / Viewmaster Square
Spy the crowds so unaware
Flagellant, naked, and scarred
Adorned with holly and ivy
See the trickster’s glint of mirth in my eyeBeard frozen, stark white mirrors
Alighting thoughts with wonder and cheer
For your magic hat must come from somewhereStep forth – rise up!
Warm your souls by my fire
There’s a place at the table
And room at the Inn
For yet another sorcerer in Yuletownby msannsboy
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unrequited red poetry
the depths are never cool
hot shadows wave in the stillnessred ripples the leviathan darkness
delicate red dreams
fluffy red curls
coy red minnow missives
intrude
incite
incarnadineroiling
rousing
the savage sussurus
of shadow dread godscoalescing
circling crimson circe
coercing suck sighs
thigh slides
lust songs
drawing to the cliffoh the cliff
oh the cliff
perched precariously
red muse
red muse
swan dive
into leviathan
one splash less orgasmic gulp
thews, tentacles
everywhere
everywhere
tightening
tightening
bestilling
dark entering red
fucking fucking
red flashes in the depths
red moans, red kissesthe depths slowly cool
still simmering
now red shadows
waving slowly---GLOAMINGER
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Dancing light from a blazing hearth
Reflected in crystal edged panes
Evergreen assails our senses
Laden with mint from candy canes
Sipping our cocoa with Dickens
Cranberries and popcorn we string
Trimming the tree with memories
As outside the carolers sing
Flickering lights reach to the star
Accenting the tinsel and bows
Childish smiles as stockings are hung
As the rapture of Christmas grows
Images of childhood laughter
While snuggling to fight off the cold
Roasting chestnuts, toasting good friends
Treasures of life, worth more than gold
Friends and loved ones, surround us
Good times and memories we share
These are the treasures of Christmas
A feeling both precious and rare
Dancing light from a blazing hearth
Reflected in crystal edged panes
Evergreen assails our senses
Laden with mint from candy canes
Sipping our cocoa with Dickens
Cranberries and popcorn we string
Trimming the tree with memories
As outside the carolers sing
Flickering lights reach to the star
Accenting the tinsel and bows
Childish smiles as stockings are hung
As the rapture of Yuletide grows
Images of childhood laughter
While snuggling to fight off the cold
Roasting chestnuts, toasting good friends
Treasures of life, worth more than gold
Friends and loved ones, surround us
Good times and memories we share
These are the treasures of Yuletide
A feeling both precious and rare
by The Ancient One
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On Self-Knowledge Kahlil Gibran
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals.
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A Prayer For All The People:
O Holy and Powerful One
I come to you as a little one,
As one who is weak and powerless
But as one who relies o your power,
On your goodness,
Help us, your people,
To push our roots down
Into this good Earth,
You have made for us
So that we may grow
In wisdom, compassion, and love.
May all of us,
Your people, your children,
In every land,
Open our lives to you,
So that we may live together,
As your children
And brothers and sisters
To one another.
I wish all of my friends, family, and those who I do not know yet great wisdom, compassion, and love and pray that I have these things granted onto me and by me even in great times of strife.
Aho!
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Comment by Denise Morgan (Helping Hand) on October 30, 2010 at 10:45pm
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Nature
Nature is everything.
It doesn’t matter where you live.
Be it the city or the country.
It is everywhere… it is everything.
Nature is the air that you breathe.
It is the food that you eat.
It is the ground that you walk upon.
It is in every object that you hold.
Everything that we have…
Everything that we are…
It is a gift to us…
One that we have the honor and responsibility to care for.
Nature does not need us… we need her!
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What Do You Seek
What do you seek…
Knowledge to fill your mind…
Love to fill your heart…
Money to fill your pocket…
Things to fill your home…
Why do you feel empty…
Do you not have those that love you…
Do you not have friends that care…
Do you not have a person who calls you theirs…
Yet still…
What do you seek…
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Perfect Love & Perfect Trust
With Perfect Love and Perfect trust,
We need not fear the time past dusk.
In love and light… we go through the night
With hands to hold… more valued than silver or gold
Having found some peace of mind,
Knowing they are so gentle and kind.
We can drift to sleep… knowing our souls they shall keep.
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Familiars
You sit there and stare at me,
What do you think?
You come and you love me…
Comfort me when I cry…
You come to me in the morning,
And welcome the day with a stretch.
Then in the evening you are always near.
As I o about my day, running to and fro,
You sit there and you stare at me…
With that look of content…
Thank you my friend… for always being near.
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Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries had its humble beginnings as an idea of a few artisans and craftsmen who enjoy performing with live steel fighting. As well as a patchwork quilt tent canvas. Most had prior military experience hence the name.
Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries.
Vendertainers that brought many things to a show and are know for helping out where ever they can.
As well as being a place where the older hand made items could be found made by them and enjoyed by all.
We expanded over the years to become well known at what we do. Now we represent over 100 artisans and craftsman that are well known in their venues and some just starting out. Some of their works have been premiered in TV, stage and movies on a regular basis.
Specializing in Medieval, Goth , Stage Film, BDFSM and Practitioner.
Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries a Dept of, Ask For IT was started by artists and former military veterans, and sword fighters, representing over 100 artisans, one who made his living traveling from fair to festival vending medieval wares. The majority of his customers are re-enactors, SCAdians and the like, looking to build their kit with period clothing, feast gear, adornments, etc.
Likewise, it is typical for these history-lovers to peruse the tent (aka mobile store front) and, upon finding something that pleases the eye, ask "Is this period?"
A deceitful query!! This is not a yes or no question. One must have a damn good understanding of European history (at least) from the fall of Rome to the mid-1600's to properly answer. Taking into account, also, the culture in which the querent is dressed is vitally important. You see, though it may be well within medieval period, it would be strange to see a Viking wearing a Caftan...or is it?
After a festival's time of answering weighty questions such as these, I'd sleep like a log! Only a mad man could possibly remember the place and time for each piece of kitchen ware, weaponry, cloth, and chain within a span of 1,000 years!! Surely there must be an easier way, a place where he could post all this knowledge...
Traveling Within The World is meant to be such a place. A place for all of these artists to keep in touch and directly interact with their fellow geeks and re-enactment hobbyists, their clientele.
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