The Healing Language of Rhythm
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Insert Pic 1: Why Is Rhythm a Healing Language? Our life, breath, and blood circulation are living in rhythms. We unconsciously feel them pulsing in our feeling life, our movement, and in the gestures that accompany speech. Rhythm is hidden in the flow of the poetic language and expression which can bring well-being and harmony, even amidst the rush and bustle of daily life in the 21st century. We speak in hidden innuendos of rhythm which are completely discernible and sequential. With the 24 Rhythms presented in this book, one can interpret lines of prose and poetry into sequences. This is because they belong to a universal world of rhythm which lives behind language... Creating Poetry, Prose and Free Verse with the 24 Rhythms … The individual, working with the rhythms, becomes the creator; and the point of view created by using the one-sided rhythms, as an exercise, eventually brings forth the conscious understanding of each specific rhythm. Rhythm itself becomes the poet’s teacher, just as Colour itself can become the artist’s teacher. Therefore, imagine and create your own scenarios in this Section. Bring each phrase into a full segment of meaning. Using the malleability of English, speak the necessary intonations and nuances, and moods to carry your rhythmic expression… Conscious understanding of what can be artistically and therapeutically created in the following exercises using the 24 Rhythms, can ultimately bring about a new creative writing… Insert Pic 38 ‘Tinct-Azure’ A) ‘Tinct – Azure’ (Adonis -..-. Antipast .--. Amphibrachus .-. Iambic .-) Spacious transcendence… Serene sensing… the secret and silken scent: Still and transluscent… encased strangeness… of silent and structured lines: Sounding in shadow… Espy shielding… Tinct - Azure the crystalline: Steadying swaying… the Triangle that hovers, preserving time. Stairsteps that steeply Descend sensing and seek for the sight sublime! ‘Michaelmas in the Springtime’ (Anapaest - Every other llne ends in Paon 3 . . - .) Insert pic 50 …Yet we're turning now inwards to deeds of becoming And the striving to think about thought, Through the power of perception, of regeneration, Mother Nature may teach us a lot. Thanks to Archangel Michael, we have an inkling Of the striving to blossom in thought. With the battle to open our minds to each other. And to see all the treasures we've brought…. Biography Verses in English : Yellow-Green (Before birth) Choriambus Back to the earth, Now come to birth Glide on the ray, Meet the new day! Yellow (1-7) Paon 4 I am a child, I learn to talk, And all at once begin to walk Orange (7-14) Anapaest Meet the world and explore! Here to learn more and more… Vermillion (14-21) Iambic To know myself and what I seek: to find out what I’ll need; In hopes to find how to proceed: to help and do the deed! Carmine (21-42) Ampibrachus I give of my being; find ways to fulfil it. The aim and the goal; and the courage to will it… Violet (42-47) Dactylus Thinking of many things: words I said vows I made Giving and receiving learning to contemplate! Ultramarine (47-56) Trochee, ending in Kreticus After sunset, twilight shimmers; Starlight gives Secrets of the inner life pursuing what will live… Prussian Blue (56-63) Kreticus Mother night; here at last; shelter me, bringing rest Time to heal; feel the peace. Never tire of the quest! Blue Green (63-70+) Spondee Meta – morphose,; transform; breathe out; create Lifetime’s gleanings are not ever too late Green and White (Afterlife) Adonis Trusting believing here at the threshold pathways are climbing Spirit’s are guiding love is abounding new life is chiming… From ‘The 24 Contemplations’ ‘Tom’ Paon 2: (short long short short) SURVIVAL Sustainable...efficient cars...protect the land from damaging...exhaust and fumes...Green vehicles are those that don’t…use fossil fuels...One fourth of all the energy...consumption in...our present world is coming from...petroleum...run vehicles… . In places where...green energy...is never used, the heavy smog...can make it hard...to breathe, and see across the street...One feels ashamed...in crowded streets. Let’s save our earth...and consciences,...for healthy minds. Survive and help...our earth to live... - for all we’re worth! Insert Pic 23 From ‘The SEVEN SENTINELS OF SPRING ’ (IAMBIC SEPTAMETER) The seven keepers guard the Spring in days of recent rain. The blessed joy of water lives: upon the desert plain. The thirsting of the barren earth: released from burning strife! The flowers born in rainbow hues will bloom with new-born life. The nixies in the currents jump and dance in pure delight! The starry sun rays out it’s shine the warmth that brings the light; A crystalline existence forms, illuminates and glows, It shimmers in the morning air: is captured by the rose. The crown of dawn that has appeared now brings celestial peace Ephemeral, the clarity that nature has released! Insert Pic 51 ‘Gloria’ F. ‘Gloria’ Iambic Septameter) The Earth has hearkened and received the sounding harmonies. The trees have opened up their arms in gestures born of peace. While shepherds in the hills and vales have bowed down on their knees. The glow of starry majesty reflects upon the fleece Of sheep within the sphere of light from whence the angels sing. O’ seek the birthplace of the child whose blessing now will bring True hope for all the troubled world to finally be healed; With strength to end the error now and freedom one can wield. From Section C: Excerpts from Poetic Literature Interpreted into Rhythms Insert Pic 69 Mungojerrie and Rumpelteaser by T. S. Eliot (beginning lines) ‘Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser were a very notorious couple of cats. Trochee Trochee Amphibrachus Trochee Paon 3 Paon 2 Choriambus As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers, and acrobats Iambic Anapaest Iambic Paon 2 Trochee Trochee Iambic Iambic They had an extensive reputation. Iambic, Paon 3, Trochee, Trochee They made their home in Victoria Grove— Iambic, Iambic, Anapaest, Anapaest That was merely their centre of operation, Anapaest, Anapaest, Anapaest, Amphibracus, For they were incurably given to roam’ Amphibracus, Paon 2, Choriambus Insert Pic 71 From ‘The MIser’ by Jean Moliere (from mid - Act 3, Scene 4 The Meter:Alexandrine Celimene: ‘We can, Madame find as I firmly believe Iambic Bacchius Anapaest Anapaest In ev’ry case something to praise and to blame: Iambic Anapaest Anapaest Anapaest And each one of us can claim to be right Iambic Anapaest Iambic, Anapaest, According to age or according to taste. Iambic Anapaest Anapaest Anapaest For dalliance is there a season that’s fit, Iambic Anapaest Anapaest Anapaest But also for prudery there is the same…’ Iambic Anapaest Anapaest Anapaest
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The Creation of Poetry ... Not everyone is a Shakespeare, but in our times, everyone with an earnest desire to create a poem can learn to do so. Therein lies a healing experience which recognises the divine spark in human beings. There are 24 hidden rhythms, living in poetry and inherent in our everyday speech. They can have a therapeutic effect, creating balance, especially in the feeling life. These ‘building blocks of language’ from Greek times have been rediscovered for the human being of today. Poetry from the Greek verb ’poein’, is composition in verse. It means to make, to create or to compose. Poetry, is crafted and shaped. A poet is endowed with the gift of imaginative invention. Enjoy the many illustrations presented here. Rhythm in colour harmony is a second path of discovery that comes to light. The wisdom in the progression of the Colour Wheel and the Zodiac Colours lives in the universal creative journey of human individuality. Rhythms in the sense of word and syllable dance in movement of the colour compositions.