Tag: Poetry
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Day 13 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 Persuasion (Free Verse) “The tree’s too big,” he said.“It blocks the sun,it cracks the stones,and every…
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Day 12 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment The Architecture of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes I. Vantablack They say it’s a colour,but they are wrong.It’s a hunger so absoluteit drinks the light — the velvet throatin the fabric of things. It’s not the black of night,or ink,or space;those are merely dark.This is Physics. A star could weepits fiery…
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12.11: dVerse Prosery
The Coming I stirred the embers with a bone-handled spoon, watching the light ebb from the fields. The year was thinning; even the crows sounded hollow. Yet I smiled, for then and not yesterday, I learned to know the love of bare November days before the coming of the snow. It was a respect without…
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Day 11 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 Formlessness Sunlight through lace,dust turns to stars;cold air kissesbare toes awake. The day beginsto breathe. Written…
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Day 10 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 Advice When the world grinds grey, granular, and the weight in your chestturns to gravity, be…
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Day 9 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 Where It’s where the dandelionloses its crown,where raincomes sheeting down, where the river’s reachmeets the waiting…
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Day 9 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. I.The Architecture of Where Where silence hums its deep, unbroken tune;where the past softensunder the patient moon. Where steam…
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The Old Woman With No Cat
The Old Woman Explains Thanksgiving (and other Impossibilities) The cat’s draped across the kitchen table.One paw outstretchedtoward November’s windowwhere a plump pheasant strutsthrough the frost. “Why,” the cat begins, in a tone suggesting a legal challenge,“do Brits not have a feast?And why is that bird so rude,…and so large?It’s taunting me.” The Old Woman sighs,wiping…
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Day 8 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 More The scar will not vanish,but love knowsthe physics of the heart. Let the wound closeon…
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Day 07 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 Dream days that wither into night,dreams that ache to wake — a patchwork heartstitching love…
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