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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…
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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 . . - .)
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…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!
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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!
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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
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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
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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