Div, or: Ce

A Sijo

beneath late spring snowbanks runoff hollows channels unseen; children romp across snowfields still where meltwater tunnels widen; by twilight the dark pressure strains against the softening crust

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

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A Little Duck (1856) by Charles H. Bennett, from Shadows.

Source: Harvard University

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#metaphor #shadows #victorian #physiognomy #ducks #art #publicdomain

Inuk artist launches first solo exhibition in U.K. gallery
Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson's exhibition Nuliaminik Neqilik uses a Greenlandic tale as a metaphor for Inuit rebelling against colonial powers. The exhibition, which uses vocal performances, film, photography and beadwork, opened in a London gallery last month, and will later head to Nuuk and Ottawa.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/laakkuluk-williamson-first-solo-exhibition-9.7195814?cmp=rss
セガ・アトラスとアニメイト,初のグローバル横断コラボプロジェクトを始動。「ペルソナ」「龍が如く」「プロセカ」など8IPを展開

セガとアニメイトは本日,国内外のアニメイト店舗でセガグループIPとのコラボレーションを1年間にわたって展開する,大型プロジェクトを始動すると発表した。「ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ」や「ペルソナ」シリーズなど,全8IPを対象に,展示イベントやグッズ販売,Gratteコラボなどを順次実施する。

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Love Is An Ocean

Love is an ocean
Never stopping at the shore
Constantly ebbing and flowing
Taking yet giving

Embracing and buoying
Those who enter
Gentle, forever fluid
Revealing beauty beneath its surface

Float in still waters
Experience the ecstasy
Throw caution to the winds
While riding its wave

Knowing you may be cast away
To a distant shore
Where you must learn
To love again

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Matt Taibbi Loses His Vexatious SLAPP Suit As Judge Explains What A ‘Metaphor’ Means

Perhaps Matt Taibbi’s most famous bit of writing ever was his takedown of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stone (and then in a book that followed) that opened with the highly evocative metaphor: The…

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The Syntax of Dreams 📜✨💭 La sintassi dei sogni #symbolism #imagery #codes

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#Theology #Apologia Perhaps-slippery #Metaphor #Peace #ProsePoem
Yet more Joubert, transl Auster:
"The staircase that leads us to God. What does it matter if it is makae-believe, if we really climb it? What difference does it make who builds it, or if it is made of marble or wood, of brick, stone, or mud? The essential thing is that it be solid and that in climbing it we feel the peace that is inaccessible to thoser who do not climb it."