Tag: traditional form

• The Unseen Poems by Rumi

  Last night I was reading from the poetry book The Unseen Poems by Rumi, the fourth collection of poetry that I have of his…Each from different translators. This is the one for those who enjoy a traditional setting, well-paced rhythm with some words that stand out, variations on the ghazal form of poetry, ones that…

  09/30/2022 12:10 pm

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• A Birthday Eve with a Poem and a Cloud of Blushing Wine

  

  …& with a little note for the morning 🙂 by this birthday boy, 815 years bright. My face is a hundred times brighter when I see your face —by Rumi (translated by Maryam Mortaz and Brad Gooch) *Update: Read my review. See the Unseen Poems too :)*

  09/29/2022 7:37 pm

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• “#1”

  As I listen to the flying birds singing far off and continuously…These still words land within my resting hands, bridging all my distances… —Jade

  05/25/2022 9:12 am

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• From Love Sonnets of Proteus, poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

  I am reading through poetry in a pair of anthologies I’d found at the library…here’s one, the first in the book. * From Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt I see you, Juliet, still, with your straw hat Loaded with vines, and with your dear pale face, On which those thirty years so…

  05/13/2022 2:06 pm

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• A Serenade by Ameen Rihani

  

  May 1, 2022 a poem for waking up…anytime A Serenade by Ameen Rihani b. Nov. 24, 1876 from Myrtles and Myrrh (1905) The moon hath said her sad good-bye,     My sleeping queen; And all the stars are wondering why    Thou art unseen. Behold! abashed, they take to flight, As through the casement breaks thy light.    …

  05/01/2022 7:10 am

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• “A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You The Sun” 

  

  Enjoy my second ghazal poem I wrote, just complete. You can listen to me reading it aloud…and read it on the page. My first ghazal was “This Ring.” A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You the Sun I am standing far below the sun in gold and I am star-following the best…

  03/23/2022 9:31 pm

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• “A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake”

  

  New: reading today this sonnet on Edna’s birthday, Feb. 22, 2023: February 25, 2022 my own photo, local garden in massachusetts, september The sonnet I wrote I’ve been telling you about was just published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal today! Here it is: “A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake.” —Jade

  02/25/2022 6:14 pm

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• Poet: Zeina Hashem Beck and Her Ghazal

  Revision to this post with updated links, Mar. 11, ’22 Writing in form after a very long time was an invigorating challenge, especially a form I’d heard of and hadn’t yet written myself: a ghazal. I’d completed writing my very first one titled, ”This Ring.” I wanted to read others in this form. The subjects…

  09/18/2021 11:49 am

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