I'm not a poet, so I needed to look up what a Villanelle is. Thirty of these in 30 days, well clearly you are an proficient viillanellist! Oh dear, not a word, you say. No matter. I won't cause you grief. I look forward to others. I truly enjoyed.
Thank you. No problem, I'm into inventing new words myself - that's the history of language. And so is 'verboklepsy' (the stealing of the meaning of words and making them mean something else) - which is rife these days in the world of politics.
Verboklepsy- now there’s an excellent coined word, it’s almost an onomatopoeia word, as one reluctantly struggles to twist one’s mouth and the tongue to say the “new meaning” of a stolen word.
Well then, I thank her. As soon as I opened this link, saw the trees, with the Emerson quote, I knew I'd subscribe. Thank you. I look forward to reading her writing.
I am delighted with her writing. I relish begin a logophile. I just read the Metamorphosis of Growth (Part 2 of 3). As she says, there is a "spectrum of definitions and connotations of a word ". I often irritate people by asking them to define a word they are using in a discussion, hoping to avoid misunderstanding over dissimilar connections around it. Reading her Substack is akin to the delight I feel when I discover new words that aptly convey depth of meaning , often so illusive in simple words. Thanks again.
I love this Josh. So clever and witty and relatable! I could imagine you having fun as you wrote it, despite how difficult these poems would be to create. Would you ever consider giving it as a gift to your local bureaucrat? If they have a sense of humour I am sure they would appreciate.....❤️
It might not work for a Portuguese bureaucrat - though I have found that dealing with bureaucracy here is an anthropologist-on-Mars's dream. So much to observe and wonder at. What I really like about bureaucracy here is that you can always get to talk to someone face-to-face in a genuinely human interaction, and they have amazing ingenuity at finding ways around their own laws & regulations when they don't 'fit' real-life situations.
This is speaking to me in the literal sense as l jump to the tune of heritage advisors in my local Council to obtain a planning permit to remove a dying native tree 🤦♀️😊🤣.
Thank you for the comment. From the other responses I have had, I can see that 'dealing with bureaucracy' is a global phenomenon common to all humankind. I think Marcus Aurelius or Caius Petronius back in Roman times had similar things to say.
I only consciously took in the formal structure of a 'villanelle' for the first time this Sunday afternoon after I got back in. 😊👍Thanks.
I'm glad to read this poem. It is a graceful dance for thought, even if in this case the steps of a mind, file drawer by file drawer. There is a hint of the mood of Kafavy, although he uses a different form, and something similar I also recognise in Auden's deliberate villanelle. Modernity and predicament comes into it.
Some skills are beyond my natural reach, but I see you are in very good company! I have found some poems from the 20thC that I had read already, without my consciously recognising their structure, which only goes to show my avoidance of literary study as such. A good new find was Heaney's 'Anniversary'.
Thank you for that; I've just read Heaney's poem you mentioned (new to me) and added it into my amazing filing system. I have a bit of a thing about villanelles, and once wrote 30 villanelles in 30 days for National Poetry Writing Month, which involved also writing terzanelles, and inventing some variations of my own to get me through. Auden's 'Villanelle' is also masterful in teaching what is possible with this form.
A true Masterpiece 🙏🏻
Thank you. 'Inspiration comes when it finds you at your easel (desk)' (Picasso)
I'm not a poet, so I needed to look up what a Villanelle is. Thirty of these in 30 days, well clearly you are an proficient viillanellist! Oh dear, not a word, you say. No matter. I won't cause you grief. I look forward to others. I truly enjoyed.
Thank you. No problem, I'm into inventing new words myself - that's the history of language. And so is 'verboklepsy' (the stealing of the meaning of words and making them mean something else) - which is rife these days in the world of politics.
Verboklepsy- now there’s an excellent coined word, it’s almost an onomatopoeia word, as one reluctantly struggles to twist one’s mouth and the tongue to say the “new meaning” of a stolen word.
You can thank my wife for that one - she's the linguist - here on substack too (veronikabond -- most recent posting here: https://veronikabondsymbiopaedia.substack.com/p/the-metamorphosis-of-growth-part?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1988887&post_id=152655876&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODczMTczOTYsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE1MjY1NTg3NiwiaWF0IjoxNzM2OTQzNTgwLCJleHAiOjE3Mzk1MzU1ODAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xOTg4ODg3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.7aXMj1vXxZ8lq1hLN9UT4syIXjb6k7MR_MVN6Q62Ehk&r=33iv10&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Well then, I thank her. As soon as I opened this link, saw the trees, with the Emerson quote, I knew I'd subscribe. Thank you. I look forward to reading her writing.
Thank you. A little bit of family self-promotion comes in handy every once in a while. :)
I am delighted with her writing. I relish begin a logophile. I just read the Metamorphosis of Growth (Part 2 of 3). As she says, there is a "spectrum of definitions and connotations of a word ". I often irritate people by asking them to define a word they are using in a discussion, hoping to avoid misunderstanding over dissimilar connections around it. Reading her Substack is akin to the delight I feel when I discover new words that aptly convey depth of meaning , often so illusive in simple words. Thanks again.
I love this Josh. So clever and witty and relatable! I could imagine you having fun as you wrote it, despite how difficult these poems would be to create. Would you ever consider giving it as a gift to your local bureaucrat? If they have a sense of humour I am sure they would appreciate.....❤️
It might not work for a Portuguese bureaucrat - though I have found that dealing with bureaucracy here is an anthropologist-on-Mars's dream. So much to observe and wonder at. What I really like about bureaucracy here is that you can always get to talk to someone face-to-face in a genuinely human interaction, and they have amazing ingenuity at finding ways around their own laws & regulations when they don't 'fit' real-life situations.
This is speaking to me in the literal sense as l jump to the tune of heritage advisors in my local Council to obtain a planning permit to remove a dying native tree 🤦♀️😊🤣.
Thank you for the comment. From the other responses I have had, I can see that 'dealing with bureaucracy' is a global phenomenon common to all humankind. I think Marcus Aurelius or Caius Petronius back in Roman times had similar things to say.
Villanelles are hard to write and you nailed it! Well done Josh! Well done. I love it!
Love it. Simply love it. Crosses all continents and is true in all places on earth.
Love the repetition.
And the voice, of course. :)
Thank you - there is more to come, once a fortnight on a Sunday.
I only consciously took in the formal structure of a 'villanelle' for the first time this Sunday afternoon after I got back in. 😊👍Thanks.
I'm glad to read this poem. It is a graceful dance for thought, even if in this case the steps of a mind, file drawer by file drawer. There is a hint of the mood of Kafavy, although he uses a different form, and something similar I also recognise in Auden's deliberate villanelle. Modernity and predicament comes into it.
Some skills are beyond my natural reach, but I see you are in very good company! I have found some poems from the 20thC that I had read already, without my consciously recognising their structure, which only goes to show my avoidance of literary study as such. A good new find was Heaney's 'Anniversary'.
Thank you for that; I've just read Heaney's poem you mentioned (new to me) and added it into my amazing filing system. I have a bit of a thing about villanelles, and once wrote 30 villanelles in 30 days for National Poetry Writing Month, which involved also writing terzanelles, and inventing some variations of my own to get me through. Auden's 'Villanelle' is also masterful in teaching what is possible with this form.
Amazingly good going.