To any other Americans, I hope you have an enjoyable Thanksgiving with good food and better company, and a relaxing Buy Nothing Day right after.
To Share: I've started incorporating a bit of poetry into my practice, using traditional Germanic meters. While I don't yet have real poems to share, I did write up a brief guide to using these metrical forms, which includes a few brief examples to illustrate how they work. The guide is mostly so as I write more poetry I can just link to it and say "this is what I followed", but if anyone's interested in having some fun with these forms, hopefully this can be some help: https://jpowellrussell.com/#rules_of_germanish_meter To Ask: Two hopefully fairly quick questions this week: 1) Last week, you mentioned how writing affirmations worked some of the same skills that are helpful for poetry (concision and working with constraints, for example), and this got me wondering, as I've had poetry on the mind lately: is there any particular value in crafting affirmations as short poems (say, a single line of dactylic hexameter or a brief couplet or the like)? 2) Now that I'm working through the second grade of the Dolmen Arch, I took a look at the version of calling of the Cantrefs and associated banishings given there and have started following those wordings rather than those given in the DMH as I had been doing. I noticed that the banishing for the Fourth Cantref doesn't seem to follow the pattern for the others, and instead matches the DMH version. I came up with a version following the pattern of the first three Cantrefs, but wondered if you have any tips or tweaks: As given in book: "And with the help of the powers of Earth, I banish from within and around me all unbalanced manifestations of Earth." My attempt to match other 3 Cantrefs: "And with the help of the powers of Earth, I banish from within and around me and from all my doings all harmful influences and [misleading sensations], and every unbalanced expression of Earth. I banish them far away from me."
As always, thanks so much for your time and effort, Jeff
Guide to Germanic Meter, Poetic Affirmations, Dolmen Arch Earth Banishing
To any other Americans, I hope you have an enjoyable Thanksgiving with good food and better company, and a relaxing Buy Nothing Day right after.
To Share: I've started incorporating a bit of poetry into my practice, using traditional Germanic meters. While I don't yet have real poems to share, I did write up a brief guide to using these metrical forms, which includes a few brief examples to illustrate how they work. The guide is mostly so as I write more poetry I can just link to it and say "this is what I followed", but if anyone's interested in having some fun with these forms, hopefully this can be some help: https://jpowellrussell.com/#rules_of_germanish_meter
To Ask: Two hopefully fairly quick questions this week:
1) Last week, you mentioned how writing affirmations worked some of the same skills that are helpful for poetry (concision and working with constraints, for example), and this got me wondering, as I've had poetry on the mind lately: is there any particular value in crafting affirmations as short poems (say, a single line of dactylic hexameter or a brief couplet or the like)?
2) Now that I'm working through the second grade of the Dolmen Arch, I took a look at the version of calling of the Cantrefs and associated banishings given there and have started following those wordings rather than those given in the DMH as I had been doing. I noticed that the banishing for the Fourth Cantref doesn't seem to follow the pattern for the others, and instead matches the DMH version. I came up with a version following the pattern of the first three Cantrefs, but wondered if you have any tips or tweaks:
As given in book: "And with the help of the powers of Earth, I banish from within and around me all unbalanced manifestations of Earth."
My attempt to match other 3 Cantrefs: "And with the help of the powers of Earth, I banish from within and around me and from all my doings all harmful influences and [misleading sensations], and every unbalanced expression of Earth. I banish them far away from me."
As always, thanks so much for your time and effort,
Jeff