Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Nontraditional Poetry - Cobra Movement

Recently I was leafing through a book of poems that I had taken a course in creative writing at the university. The book of poems for the millennium, a collection of modern poetry and postmodern. It remains one of my favorites of the university. What I like about this book is that it highlights what I consider a problem of the large, modern and postmodern poetry - the rebellion.

As writers, we are given the freedom to create what we want. Who said that we should keep the traditional rules? This iswhat I love about modern poetry - that defies the rules of his predecessors. Take the Cobra (also known as Cobra) movement in late 1940 as an example.

The name comes from Cobra cities in which artists and poets lived - hagen Co. USSEL Br, and A msterdam. At that time, Europe was just a time of war, war, and this group has tried to live on through the arts.

Like the Dadaists of the world of art, artists rebelled CobraDisadvantages of Western popular culture over time.

"We eliminate the aesthetic principles. We are not disappointed, because we are under no illusions. We have never had."

- Constant, reflex Manifesto, 1948

Artists have deliberately defied the principles of aesthetics and form, focusing instead on the power of words. Artists and poets together to their art, which no longer even be associated with a name to create.

May, after reading the poem below, you think, is absurdDuplication. Caught in a social context, however, repetition, means a lack of capitalization and punctuation much more. It was a reaction to the popular styles of the time

Discuss Mad Karel Appel

Mad is mad

Fools are fools

Since everything is crazy

Of all that is crazy

Not everything is crazy

After all that I'm not crazy

Is for anything to be mad

A nothing too crazy

Everything is crazy

Crazyeverything

Because everything is great

But everything is great

And do not be mad crazy

Nothing crazy, after all

Fools are not mad

Fools are not mad

Mad is mad

Mad Mad Mad

Much of the work of the Cobra movement would be difficult to reproduce here. If you are interested, try some of the following artists / poets Lucebert Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, Gerrit Kouwen, Pierre Alechinsky and Hugo Claus.

TheCobra movement was short, even if new moves that these rebellions, the global changes and styles are making thing.

While it is important to respect and honor the traditional styles, I think it is also important for the literary world, only to rebel against them, too. Experiment with your art, your writing. Although it may be still in good shape to take with you what you want.

Girls Gone Wild, Dads Gone Crazy

Girls Gone Wild

Dad's Gone Crazy

What to do to

Living in a base of society?

Help me dear Lord

I need your Spirit

Free two-edged sword

To set my soul

Come, Holy Spirit

And live as big in me!

Give wisdom

To cope with my daughter

Give me the strength to

Loving father assertive.

An intervention by the Heavenly Father

Before my daughter was

The food for the hungryWolves

Food for sexual perverts

Especially Merciful Lord

Wear your heart on behalf of

Speak to my darling in

Burn the truth about the sin in his

Let's not mislead you

With his rebellious generation

Fearing that, like many people tend

Sudden death and devastation

Transmit his divine inspiration

The desire for purity, than anything that can be

In order to reform his ways, before the live --severe

Overcome the temptations of everyday life

Protect your leaning on the level

Guard your heart against pollution

Soliciting sex and seduction

Avoid contracts pornographic

Strengthen their identity and security

If you do not want a sweet speaker swayed

What are subtle and secretly a stalker

Under the conditions of darkness, a walker late into the night

When it's time to commit to my friend

Not just a rebel Balker

ASoulshaker and the heart breakers

Desiring to give only the recipient of a

Enough of this invasive intruder!

He is not, but my daughter.

God help him in honor of his father's land

Embrace discipline and correction

Shun stupid or not to flee

His father who loves more

It is not arrogant contempt

Neither praise leader

And the way deviant

Dear God, its offerHeart

And bring my daughter safe.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Bereavement Poems - Thoughtful Poetry for the mourning

The loss of a loved one is the hardest thing you'll ever spend in your life, and you will notice that sometimes it feels hopeless. There is light at the end of all shades of life and death of a loved one is no exception. There are many ways to cope with the death of a loved one to be, and there are some things you can do to help you, or anyone dealing with death. With poems of mourning can be a great help to have someone or yourself,View of the loss that is before them.

Mourning is a poem, a poem, you are in an obituary, a service of memory or a place of memory, can use as a way of dealing with the death of a loved one through images and words. If you have a service where you need something to help you through it, or if you are looking for words to appear somewhere in the memory of a loved one, a funeral poem or memory about what you want to think.

There were manyMemory poems that were written in the past for many situations. There are poems mourning the loss of parents and grandparents, children or friends or family members. Each poem in memory can speak to your heart and the hearts of people who have lost their loved ones. A statue of the seal has been developed to assist the adjustment process.

When you think about poems for funerals, there are a few things that you do not want to forget. Poetry for the service of remembranceshould somehow find the person you have lost - their lives, their loves, their faith or something they loved. Do you want to be sure that the poem you chose the one who will talk to you and talk with other members of the bereaved.

A well chosen funeral poem can be something that hung at once. It is wise to consider keeping the printing of the funeral poem and give to others who want to keep him. After this poemYou and keep up with photos of your loved one in a scrap book or a website, need on-line store, words that you can still in memory. Emotions in written form, either in prose or poetry is strongly recommended as a means of treatment of severe pain.

All the memories that you can put a specific person easily packaged in a well chosen funeral poem to express and be in a position to these words as a memorial for a long time to keep. Sharing aPoetry with others in the hope of helping to cope with their grief over the loss of a loved one to be. And "just to see, with pain of losing a loved one, you really get away and comes to your life.

~ Ben Anton, 2007

Haiku Examples and the 5-7-5 Syllable Rule

Most people understand what a haiku. And most will tell you that a true haiku poem, a certain pattern of syllables and lines must have. For instance, the first line 5 syllables, 7 seconds, and the third 5 again. It's all good, but it is not necessary at all! In fact, most modern haiku in the western world are not in accordance with this structure. For my part I think it's a good thing! Let us understand some examples of haiku why.

Haiku Example 1:

moreSpring rain --

A tree takes shape

Dawn

Haiku is more than one of my favorite poets, Bruce Ross. Note that the 5-7-5 rule does not apply here, too. Note also that the poem is always a haiku. Why? Since it uses the so-called set theory and the fragment. The first row is a fragment and creates the overall atmosphere of the poem. The next two lines contain a certain phrase to something that happens in an instant. Read the poem as a whole does notHaiku sensibility, which is basically an observation or snapshot view of what is happening in the present. Furthermore, this object of nature - another common feature is haiku. Here is another example.

Haiku Example # 2

a swallow

Tin bath ...

Summer Woods

The haiku, the author omitted completely rule 5-7-5 and still works like a haiku poem. Because he used the theory of sentence fragments and to create the micro-macro. Furthermore, we have setfirst of these times by the fragment will follow. Note that the image is created by the juxtaposition between the phrase and the fragment. This is what creates the poetry of haiku! To write modern haiku, do not worry about editing your poem in the old forms. This freedom to create, something that is not thought that if you follow the 5-7-5 rule.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Abortion Rights

The abortion should be safe, legal and rare - Planned Parenthood

On 20 May, a federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, called off - the second time - the law on late abortions. The court ruled that the law has an "undue burden created for women, goes beyond the guidelines in the past year by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart.

I and many others are against the law of Virginia, where it was approved in 2003, argued, mainly because it seemed to restfragile constitutional grounds. Whatever. Far right-wing politicians in Richmond went anyway.

Against Virginia has elected to continue on this path again, you must have at least a basic knowledge of the right to abortion. Perhaps the following questions and answers is to purchase them may be helpful:

Question: The U.S. Constitution establishes the right to abortion?

Answer: Yes, but indirectly. The High Court decided the issue in Roe v. Wade ByGiven that the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution guarantees the right to privacy "is broad enough to a woman's decision whether to terminate pregnancy."

Question: Is the Roe decision legalizing abortion by the time of delivery?

Answer: Yes and no. The Court found that the gestation period about three quarters consisting lasts for about 12 weeks each. Only during the first quarter is not a woman have an unfettered rightto terminate a pregnancy. In the second, you can abortion, but only in a center with all medical services. In the third quarter to which an abortion unless her life or endanger health.

Question: How were they treated cases of abortion third trimester of pregnancy?

Answer: Late-term process (24 weeks or more) are extremely rare - fewer than one percent. However, the states have broad authority in Roe v. WadeTo restrict abortions third quarter. In Virginia, for example, two doctors must also certify to the attending physician that a procedure is necessary for the end of the term in order to preserve the life or health of women before the execution.

Question: The Supreme Court of the United States, after its original position on abortion changed in the second trimester of pregnancy?

Answer: Yes. In 1989 case Webster v. Reproductive Health, the High Court in 5-4 decision that aMissouri law, as laid down by the doctors with the investigation of the second quarter, profitability was unconstitutional. However, the Court expressly refused to overthrow Roe.

Question: Is the unborn have "rights?

Answer: Mr. Justice Blackmun, writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade said that "the term person in the Fourteenth Amendment, not the unborn."

Question: Is this the case, Roe v. Wade has never been confirmed by the Supreme CourtJudge?

Answer: Yes. In 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld, the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade, stressed the necessity of res judicata (standby) decisions, and for other reasons.

Question: Is not the Congress pass a federal law in 2003 banning IDX (intact dilation and extraction) abortions in certain procedures for the end of the term of office?

Answer: Yes. The Supreme Court has considered numerous challenges to the law, but in the case of Gonzales, V. 2007Carhart decided 5-4 to approve. As a practical point of view, the law has shown little effect, since less than one percent of all abortions responsible under the law.

Bridezilla has broken down

Our beautiful woman who happens to you?

It seems that all these things, you have lived,

Are completely demoralized, and finally the best of you

Darling, let me encourage you and tell you what to do

Get out of bed, let the fear, lift the head

Extend your mind, keep your heart, you begin to start

Praise your Creator continuous and consistent

Thanks for the many things he has done for you

Let little thingsBanality bring pain

Concentrate on the majors and a momentum for the future

The road ahead may be difficult, but can be happy

Forget about the excessive stress and not so snappy

Blow is not a backup, and do, or refuse to discipline

You, your language and mental acuity

Responsibility, honesty and transparency

They overcome and triumph

Coping with the complications and reduce the daily newspaperEmotions

Bridezilla, nobody wants, all your drama

Language test always solved the other patient

Press them on board without hesitation

Reaching the breaking point and explode

Bridezilla does not torment, torture, and the sting

Relatives, friends and loyal family

Take a deep breath and remember that in Greece or Italy

Travel along on the honeymoon, when mental

Learning to manage emotionssent

Programming before marriage is always the best of you

Maybe you need a revolutionary breakthrough

A paradigm shift forever changed

Attenuation of mentality that suffer and sewage

Emotional people not fragment and contempt

Government and regulate your emotions and language

Try to be children, heart and playful fun

How do you go to the company for the job

Although this division has led todown

State E ', for the reconstruction of the Foundation

Move your consciousness into a new direction

Bridezilla, life is like a magnificent feast

Do not wait until the day of the wedding is

The eruption of joy today, and that every day!

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Ballade of an Inca King

Ah! Leave the gold, wealth and land

Inca King said ...

In Spain, they leave the crowded streets,

To navigate the coasts of Peru;

The sound of the gold is soft,

Light and glows like the sun

A mountain of gold, or the grave

Looks human, Inca-god ...!

Spaniards sing their songs of victory

Where interruptions Sea Green Peru;

Now loves the Inca King (?)

Guarded behind prisonsDoors?

They chat about his gold rings

You see the wind along the coast ...

Counting of days of inactivity

Gold for the cult and die.

Sent.

Another spring will never pass away

Engulfed by the death, and death

The elements are combined in Spanish:

Kill the King in the Inca period;

First, gold is I'm afraid ...

Everything will be in deep, deep, hidden

In the hollow of the earth,

MoonlightGalleries from Peru! ...

# 731 6/13/2005

Just a note: Ricardo Palma was part of my inspiration for a high degree on the traditions of Peru, when I tried to put a little "in the poetic verses. The Incas generally has a constant problem I had seems that my poems Peru, and the various people around them, and places like the Andes, Cuzco, Huancayo, Lima, Peru, of course, with names such as Francisco Pizarro and Bolivia, Inca [Inca King]; Titu ATAUCHI hisBrother. Dona Veronica Aristizabal.