perhaps to play is
perhaps to play is
to make every effort to let
go, trust the process
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perhaps to play is
perhaps to play is
to make every effort to let
go, trust the process
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#effort : a vigorous attempt
- French: Éffort
- German: die Anstrengung
- Italian: sforzo
- Portuguese: empenho
- Spanish: esfuerzo
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Vanishing point, or: Parallel lines
A Sijo
parallel bolted rails stretch on through gravel, rainwater, and weeds; far ahead the horizon compresses both lines into one; weathered ties keep their distance through another night of freightReena’s Xploration Challenge 430
For Reena’s RXC prompt, she invites us to compose poems inspired by the word ‘elusive’.
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.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
#Distance #Effort #Elusive #Endurance #Horizon #Poem #Poetry #Railroad #Relationships #Separation #SijoA quotation from Thomas Carlyle
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part 2 (1825)
More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84047…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #accomplishment #concentration #dilution #effectiveness #effort #focus #objective #patience #willpower

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves…