Category: Soundtracks
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Day 27 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Sēlic (long form) They had a word for it: sēlic.Even when wind was a wolf,even when…
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Day 26 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Meandering in 3 Parts This path is a slow green thought,unfolding from my kitchen windowto The…
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Day 25 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of a Return (haibun) We left work and drove through the night, dawn catching us just as…
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Day 25 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of a Scar I stare out the windowat winter stripping away autumn’s last gold,a violence of wind,a…
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Day 24 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Doubt (long form) What creature,with frantic handsand a roaring heart,inhabits this page who nestsin crumpled thoughts?…
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Day 23 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of a Bell (long form) Mum had a bronze dinner bell.She’d shake a frantic tunefrom its metal…
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Day 23 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment A Response Poem (numbered vignettes) I.The woman across the street won’t speak to me.She called the Norwegians up the road “towel heads.”Every straw has its camel’s back,and that was mine. II.The family next door have a new electric car.Their old one vanished in a puff of oily smokeas the tow…
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Day 22 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment The Architecture of a Lodger (long form) A single word becomes a key.It turns the lock on a moment,and a memory enterslike a ghost,a lodger,furnishing my mindwith its own, particular light. It feeds all dayon the steam rising from my coffee,on the rhythm of my walk,on a note, a song,on…
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Day 21 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Why the Cello Weeps (long form) Why a bow drawsnot a note,but a breath hauledfrom a deeper lungthan mine? Why the strings’ vibrationfeels like the slow fractureof a continent? This is the soundof memorywearing its own shadow. A grounded, human cryfrom a voice that walksits ruins,its empty halls. It stands…
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Day 20 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment The Architecture of Petrichor (long-form list poem) Because the sky held itself too long.Because dust remembers it is earth.Because the stones hum a low, cool note.Because the roots murmur back to leaves. Because we recognise the smell of beginnings.Because it is the scent of promises kept.Because it carries the ghost…
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