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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425771" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetic Standard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetic Standard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetic inspiration must supply<br>Open sourced resourcefulness, may not<br>Exist in half-light, cuts the gordian knot<br>That holds back harmony from inner eye.<br>Insidious compromise can't satisfy<br>Creative impulse that rejects as blot<br>Secondary lot where, half forgot, <br>Tired lines block, lock life's vista, dreams deny.<br>All hesitation acts out living lie<br>None should accept to temper daily rot, <br>Dread time-trap snapped shut once one bolt is shot.<br>Aloft soar, draw from intuitions, fly! <br>Read much, hunch heed, rise from rant's rubbish vent, <br>Dare to revise, creative dance invent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Skein poetic weaves life's leaves. Flash wink<br>Turns think through ink to stage fulfilling page<br>As insight mixes music, words wild, sage.<br>No Tao is tainted that cues tone-true link<br>Descriptive and instructive, scanned in sync.<br>Although some self-styled poets feel form's cage, <br>Review Stravinsky's words, all doubts assuage.<br>Deny blank prose poetic rose crown. Drink<br>Pierian deep, sip not lip-service brink, <br>Or compensate for feelings trapped to wage<br>Ego war against injustice guaged, <br>To ease maimed spirit's claims of unfair stink.<br>Inside poetic process progress make, <br>Craft well, rewrite, reword from second take.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">6 September 2009 robi3_1908_robi3_0845 ASX_IXX<br>Acrostic Sonnet POETIC STANDARD STANDARD POETIC <br>See notes and related poems below<br>__________________ <br>Pierian Spring</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Pierian Spring from greek mythology is held the metaphorical source of knowledge about the arts and science. Pieria, ancient Macedonia, was the location of Mount Olympus, the seat of worship of Orpheus and the Muses. The spring is believed to be a fountain of knowledge that inspires whoever drinks from it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A little learning is a dangerous thing; <br>Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; <br>There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, <br>And drinking largely sobers us again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">______________</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution.' Igor Stravinsky </div><div style="margin:10px 0">_____________________<br> <br>Poetic Inspiration<br> <br>Poetic inspiration must not tarry, <br>dry up, discouraged, over-analyse.<br>Expectations entertained help carry<br>message deep to conquer Time which flies.<br>There is no cause to dam perceptions, parry<br>questions put, those jealousy implies<br>to force reaction where response should marry<br>all to all, - no need to temporize.<br>Refute temptation, motives mercenary, <br>yet neither 'look too good, nor talk too wise’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before vague interferences the mind<br>distorts, today’s perceptions twists, heart tries<br>to focus clearly, insight redefined <br>and shares impressions' pulse which never dies<br>while magic taps into soul’s spring to bind<br>into emotions each identifies <br>mundane events transformed, sense underlined<br>with Jericho's walls fallen, fear defies.<br>Transcending formal fetters much maligned<br>inspiration loves to improvise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through intuition lucky few may find<br>such inspiration free verse seldom tries<br>to pin down, qualify, or predefine. <br>All limits disappear as 'hows? and whys? ' <br>loose, lose, restrictions, innate truth unwind.<br>Across dimensions musing spirit flies, <br>base substance shed, trite trammels left behind, <br>as gravity dissolves, - no lows, no highs -<br>as meanings are decoded, intertwined<br>in ink which links 'I think', 'you feel', 'we rise'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exacting standards which sustain no blot, <br>must overcome doubts day to day supplies, <br>quit half-life half-light, cut the gordian knot<br>of form to swarm above what satisfies<br>secondary lot where those forgot, <br>who blindly rules obey, life lose. Surprise<br>lights eyes so seldom as progressive rot<br>sets in, skin deep or masked by dark disguise, <br>accepts trip’s time-trap trigger, its bolt shot.<br>Yet inspiration no rules justifies.<br> <br>Scorning hesitation’s living lies, <br>which dew drops gathered from forget-me-not<br>ignore, or leave untouched, passed by with sighs, <br>informed awareness reaches out from what<br>seems insignificance, can recognize<br>energies innate, taste cold and hot, <br>to spurn self-satisfaction’s compromise, -<br>small slots refutes - for most the daily lot -<br>tendrils intangibles to realize <br>inner joy tease crosses, eyes may dot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 October 2005 revised 4 April 2008 robi3_1310_robi3_0845 XXX_EIJ<br>for previous version see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetic Inspiration</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetic inspiration must not tarry, <br>dry up, discouraged, over-analyse.<br>Expectations entertained help carry<br>message deep to conquer Time which flies.<br>There is no cause to dam perceptions, parry<br>questions put or those envy implies<br>to force reaction where response should marry<br>all to all, no need to temporize.<br>Refute temptation, motives mercenary, <br>‘and yet not look too good, nor talk too wise’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exacting standards which can stand no blot, <br>overcome doubts daily life supplies, <br>won’t live in half-light, cut the gordian knot<br>of form to swarm above what satisfies<br>secondary lot where those forgot, <br>with rules obeyed, convictions fade. Surprise<br>lights eyes so seldom as progressive rot<br>sets in, skin deep or masked by dark disguise, <br>accepts trip’s time-trap trigger, its bolt shot. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scorning hesitation’s living lies, <br>dew drops gathered from forget-me-not, <br>informed awareness reaches out to touch<br>apparent insignificance, relies<br>not on self-satisfaction’s compromise, -<br>open to intangible, mines much, <br>sustaining promise, spurning formal ties.<br>Refuse small slot - for most the daily lot. 1 October 2005 <br> <br>____________</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Living Lie</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetic inspiration can’t run dry, <br>expectations entertains, cannot<br>live in half-light, cuts the gordian knot<br>dividing consciousness from inner eye.<br>No compromises ever satisfy<br>exacting standards that reject as blot, <br>secondary lot where, half forgot, <br>convictions pale are held to not apply.<br>Hesitation is a living lie<br>most men accept to ease their daily rot, <br>time-trap snapped shut once only bolt is shot.<br>Try who will, few still find wings to fly.<br>Thus when two meet, see differences dissolve, <br>empathy Earth’s mysteries may solve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">20 June 1997 revised 26 November 2006 robi3_0845_robi3_0000 SXX_IKX<br>for previous version see below – previous title Hesitations are a Living Lie</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hesitation is a Living Lie </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He whose inspiration won’t run dry<br>Expectations entertains, cannot<br>Live in half-light, cuts the gordian knot<br>Encompassing the spirit’s inner eye.<br>No compromises here can satisfy<br>Exacting standards which accept no blot, <br>Secondary lot where, half forgot, <br>Convictions fade, men fondest hopes deny.<br>Hesitations are a living lie<br>Most men accept to ease their daily rot.<br>It is a time-trap. Once the bolt is shot<br>Try who will, few find the wings to fly.<br>Thus when two meet, see differences dissolve, <br>Harmony Earth’s mysteries can solve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">20 June 1997</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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Poetic inspiration must supply
Open sourced resourcefulness, may not
Exist in half-light, cuts the gordian knot
That holds back harmony from inner eye.
Insidious compromise can't satisfy
Creative impulse that rejects as blot
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