#contrapuntal poem

[mkaugust]

Turn your face to the nonexistent sun, Look to the hidden away moon and Drink the rainwater straight from the sky. Clouds pretending to be the milky way… You’ve no basket to fill this time. The closest you’ll get to touching stars, Further than you’ve ever been from The fog that descends around your car. The washed out path to my house.

#poetry #my poetry #writeblrcafe #poets corner #spilled poetry #poeticstories #writerscreed #contrapuntal poem

[atompowers]

#poetry #solar #environment #energy #renewable #contrapuntal #contrapuntal poetry #contrapuntal poem #three in one #3 in 1 #BOGO #solar knight #lyric poem #interconnection #interconnection queue #fossil fuels #fantasy #storytime #fairytale #contrapuntal lyric poem #Adam Powers #my poetry #solarpunk #solar power #clean energy #renewable power #renewable energy #electricity #renewable electricity #solarpunk poem

[aikatxt]

60 mph.

a contrapuntal poem; this can be read straight down, first lines only, and indented/second lines only.

#inkstay #spilled ink #poetry #writerscreed #deadpoetsnet #rejectscorner #my writing #old thoughts on growth and identity and the desperate need to get out of the small town i was stuck in #this was fun to write!! i adore contrapuntal poems #contrapuntal poetry #<- tagging so its easier for me to find in the future #will try to write more of these in the future just as practice bc its a good way of looking deeper into what i write

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of october

joseph brodsky collected poems in english, 1972-1999: “the hawk’s cry in autumn”

natalie diaz it was the animals

ruth stone as real as life

muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: “käthe kollwitz”

naomi shihab nye grape leaves: a century of arab american poetry: “making a fist”

larry levis elegy: “elegy with a chimneysweep falling inside it”

emily berry arlene and esme

erika meitner copia: “yizker bukh”

aracelic girmay sister was the wolf

joshua beckham take it: “[dark mornings shown thy mask]”

dana levin you will never get death / out of your system

delmore schwartz summer knowledge: selected poems (1938-1958): “darkling summer, ominous dusk, rumorous rain”

matthew olzmann mountain dew commercial disguised as a love poem

ghazal (@dobaara) my anger and loneliness are lovers

nikki allen search party: names for my mother

ellora sutton (newborn)

emily skaja letter to s, hospital

benjamín naka-hasebe kingsley born year of the uma

hieu minh nguyen litany for the animals who run from me

brandy nālani mcdougall he mele aloha no ka niu

ai vice: new and selected poems: “cuba, 1962″

gig ryan civil twilight

troy osaki o heat we protest

nick carbó andalusian dawn: “directions to my imaginary childhood”

chen chen i’m not a religious person but

sally wen mao oculus: “anna may wong stars as cyborg #86″

srikanth reddy voyager: “book three: 19″

golden & when they come for me (reprise)

natalie scenters-zapico notes on my present: a contrapuntal

evan knoll blood makes the blade holy

jesús papolete meléndez hey yo! yo soy!: 40 years of nuyorician street poetry a bilinguial edition: “of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise”

kofi

#tbr #poems #poetry #poem list #poem #poet #poets #ruth stone #muriel rukeyser #naomi shihab nye #larry levis #joshua beckham #dana levin #delmore schwartz #emily skaja #evan knoll #matthew olzmann #troy osaki #nikki allen #ellora sutton #chen chen #golden #natalie scenters-zapico #srikanth reddy #hieu minh nguyen #ai #joseph brodksy #aracelis girmay #natalie diaz #jesús papolete meléndez

[gretchensinister]

This is called a contrapuntal poem, and I knew as soon as I read about the form that it was right for talking about Will and Jim. However it is also very difficult to do and I wondered why I had decided to attempt it many times while writing.

Text of poems under the readmore.

Will, Jim, WillandJim

There’s a certain gift of innocence,

Wrapped up in nature’s blond and blue,

A summer peach to summer peach.

See it, save it, hold it close—

With heat that makes it rot? Oh, don’t

Ruin a lovely, precious thing,

Real and perfect as the past.

Someone must keep this fragile gold

Bud that won’t think of or look at fruit.

But is endless springtime really life?

Ah! Such blessed state has never been.

So think of who doesn’t get the gift

When tempted by perfection.

*

Boys like animals are given

To owl-staring, tiger-running

Towards some never-will-be time,

The future flickering like a flame.

Reach out and touch it, and be changed.

See everything green eyes can see:

Illusions, shadows, lies and dreams.

They say you already eat the dark.

Some see knowing like a bruise.

Harvest, press, and learn of wine

That leaves the living satisfied.

And beware of those who think what’s best

Is something (someone) never-touched.

*

There’s a certain gift of innocence

Boys, like animals, are given,

Wrapped up in nature’s blond and blue.

To owl-starers, tiger-runners

A summer peach to summer peach

For some never-will-be time.

See it, save it, hold it close.

The future flickers like a flame

With heat that makes it rot. Oh, don’t—

Reach out and touch it, and be changed.

Ruin a lovely, precious thing.

See everything green eyes can see,

Real and perfect as the past’s

Illusions, shadows, lies and dreams.

Someone must keep this fragile gold!

Someone who already eats the dark?

Bud that won’t think of or look at fruit,

Some see knowing like a bruise, but

Is endless springtime really life?

Harvest, press, and learn of wine.

No such blessed state has ever been

That leaves the living satisfied.

So remember who doesn’t get the gift

And beware of those who think what’s best

When temptation fixes on perfection

Is something (someone) never-touched.

Oh, the way this pair is framed as pure—

Too unbelievable to endure!

#something wicked this way comes #something wicked is me #poetry #contrapuntal poetry

[imichelle-l-rigby]

Reflections: Cillian Murphy’s Limited Edition

Season 3, episode 9

✨the penultimate episode✨

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*I am a music prof (predominantly classical vocalist), and I LOVE listening to Cillian’s music choices! That being said, sometimes I won’t like a song simply because of a vocalist (it’s a professional hazard - sorry!) 👩‍🏫

** The following are my own observations/opinions. We may not agree, and that’s ok! That’s what makes music fun! 😊

*** I wouldn’t say I’m well-versed in Cillian’s music preferences, but I do enjoy them (for the most part). I always wind up adding to my own playlists after listening to Cillian’s recommendations.

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I apologize in advance for the following “tired teacher” rambling 🙃

🎵Set 1 (Westward Bound - Music for the Sun King)

Westward Bound: nice, calm, and atmospheric. This is what he should put at the *end* to help you fall asleep 😴

Saturday Sun: a little soulful, a little jazzy, and very much perfect for the weekend. 😎

Music for the Sun King: it does have a reminiscent vibe of *the* “Here Comes the Sun King” by the Beatles, and I get that with the lower instruments. I like how this continually evolves.

🎤Talking Break

How did this (penultimate Ep) happen???

“Pepper in some highly uninteresting, obtuse facts”

🎵Set 2 (Southern Man)

Southern Man: oooh - I love her voice!!!

🎤Talking Break

“A tiny, tiny little piece”

🎵Set 3 (Trees Against the Sky -

Trees Against the Sky: what a fun, polyphonic/contrapuntal song!!!!! I love it!!

Aliante giallo.pt. 2: I’m sure it’s instrumentation, but I feel like I’m on vacation on the Mediterranean. 😎

Idag: while there’s nothing too shocking in terms of construction, this is just an enjoyable song!

🎤Talking Break

Cool that there’s Swedish music 👍

Cillian… your Italian needs some work 😬

I wanna explore more of Alessandroni’s work

It kinda bothers me that he doesn’t verify these facts 😅 I’m sorry - academia has ruined me.

I promise I thought that was my phone alarm going off! 😂😂😂😂

🎵Set 4 (heat on, lips on - Blood)

Heat on, lips on: so it’s interesting how many songs make use of “noise-like sounds” - that was a whole movement back in the ‘50s, and it was certainly an acquired taste. Nice that it’s seen in more than just film music or experimental music.

Zarubezh: is it strange to say this sounds like Lo-if meets urban soundscape meets studio vocals session? 🤔

Blood: such a wide variety of timbre - you’ve got mellow to bright represented!

🎤Talking Break

Interesting how it samples politicians. Not uncommon, but always interesting.

A poem!

Sketch IV_II: definitely get why it’s a “sketch”, as well as why it’s used as atmospheric sound to the poem.

Cillian loves a good pop song - noted!

And I guess his boys do, too!

🎵Set 5 (Someday - How Do I Know)

Someday: I feel like this song is used in so many ads 😅 I can’t disconnect this song from consumerism.

How Do I Know: this is a good pop song! Which is so funny because, once again, it’s a fairly monotone vocal line. The driving rhythms in the instruments is really what sells this.

🎤Talking Break

It’s cool that he knows the producers as well. I always forget about the producers, and I definitely shouldn’t.

🎵Set 6 (Won’t Give You Up - Rocket USA)

Won’t Give You Up: this is groovy in all the best ways. 😎 fun sounds, fun harmonies. And it’s also got a sax! 😂

CORRECT. nerves are important for performance! BE NERVOUS IF YOU’RE NOT NERVOUS!!!

Rocket USA: speaking of nervous, this makes me feel anxious with this background 😳

🎤Talking Break

Cillian’s performance nerves are backwards.

“But it ain’t”

🎵Set 7 (Twist - Dollars and Cents)

Twist: the popping sound kinda hurts my ears, but I also kinda love this. It has a good bit of layering going on, and it’s well-done. All the elements have a similar timbre, so the sonic construction really works here.

Dollars and Cents: why does this have a bossa nova feel to it??? Lots of interesting instances of dissonance/failure to resolve.

🎤Talking Break

Ask a reasonable question!

I’m with Sydney - the idents need an album.

“EP of dismal sounds”

“If ident mind” - omg is this a dad joke or just a dad pun? 😂

🎵Set 8 (Put It On - Holly Holy)

Put It On: I like this!! And I don’t think I realized it before, but Cillian must like sax AND island music.

Ain’t No Love: ooh this feels more early rock, but not! And I love larger vocal groups - they are so fun!

Morning Sun: a strange transition, but this is nice. It reminds me of “House of the Rising Sun” in a way because of the melodic contour. Large leap up, then small intervals back down.

Holly Holy: this sounds like something George Harrison would like.

🎤Talking Break

There’s an album called Clint Eastwood?!

Holly Holy by Neil Diamond. This is starting to make sense.

We’ve got Yorkshire Man!

I’m glad he explained sheep counting.

🎵Set 9 (Old Molly Metcalfe)

Old Molly Metfalfe: the descending ostinatos (mimicking the song proper) are intriguing, mysterious, and annoying. 😅 I do appreciate that he’s singing a cappella, but he goes under the pitch a little bit, particularly on the descending lines. Whoops - my voice teacher is showing. 🙃

🎤Talking Break

Oohhhh Catalonia…

🎵Set 10 (Paradís - Hyperballad)

Paradís: this feels like it has some modal construction rather than straight major/minor. And polyrhythms - y’all know that’s one of my favorite things!

Hyperballad: Björk is back! Idk if I said this before, but her vocal line is almost chant-like interspersed with repeated motifs.

🎤Talking Break

Nice… archive!

I’ve never heard Kate Bush’s speaking voice, and to everyone’s shock and surprise, it’s a lot like her singing voice!

🎵Set 11 (The Big Sky -

The Big Sky: this is a “pump you up” song - definitely gets you ready for the day! This is too energetic for a nighttime playlist, Cillian! 😂😂

🎤Talking Break

“It’s a total coincidence”

Ok, voice nerd here, but I love hearing him drop into vocal fry. That being said, it is a more taxing way to speak, so please use wisely. 😊

🎵Set 12 (The Storm -

The Storm (01-16-52): OK BUT YES TO EVERYTHING I AM IN LOVE 😍😍😍 It’s big band jazz meets city blues meets cool sound effects✨fave song of the episode✨

Bad Luck and Trouble (49-50): ok, did I speak too soon??? This is country blues (different from city blues because it’s a male vocalist and more rural sounding). ✨This might tie for favorite song✨

🎤Talking Break

Interesting final selections!

Just one more 😢

“Mind yourselves”

🎵Set 13 (Journey in Satchidananda -

Journey in Satchidananda: harp and sax should play together more often, that’s all I gotta say! Also, more music needs sitar. Way to go, this is 🔥🔥🔥

Twenty Trees: orchestral, percussive, and electric. The pulsing is a little strange, but I like this.

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Phew! Finally got this written! One more to go - I have mixed feelings about that, but onward we must!

Tag list:

@iammrsrogers @deliciousnutcomputer @mariamoonie @brownskinsugarplum76 @look-at-the-soul @kj-davis @neverroad @teapothollow @thepurplearmyposts @possessedmarshmallow

#Cillian Murphy #cillian murphy’s limited edition #bbc 6 music

[mywifeleftme]

300: Four Horsemen // Live in the West

Live in the West Four Horsemen 1977, Starborne

The Four Horsemen were Canada’s great contribution to international sound poetry, a genre that has traditionally involved the authors of the most abstruse literary theory ever written doing the verbal equivalent of Monty Python’s Department of Silly Walks for small audiences that regret their own open-mindedness. (Look, the Splash Zone was clearly labelled.) The Horsemen became genuine counter-culture favourites because they understood that absolute freedom is as absurd as it is sublime. As a result, their second LP Live in the West is probably the most fun thing that’d come out of the whole sound poetry movement to that point. The poets presented themselves as something between a band, an avant-garde theatre troupe, and a sketch group, and their compositions flit between high- and lowbrow signifiers in a way that feels prescient of today’s culture.

Side One is dedicated to shorter compositions, classical sound poetry conceits like dismantling a single loaded word into discrete phonemes (the word “Assassin” dissolved into startled AHHs and hissing esses) and deftly syncopated sequences of non-verbal glottal noises and grunts. On “From Beast/Matthew’s Line,” Paul Dutton (I think) opens with a snippet of an Irish-sounding folk song; he breaks off, allowing Rafael Barreto-Rivera and bpNichol to exchange repeated non-sequiturs in Spanish and English while Dutton keens in the background; Steve McCaffery begins speaking over them, intoning John Clare’s nineteenth century poem “I Am!”; as McCaffery nears the climax of the poem, the others gradually transition into raga-style vocalizations. The effect is quadrophonic, not unlike Glenn Gould’s “contrapuntal radio” piece The Idea of North (1967), which layered recordings of spoken monologues to see how their meanings and sounds complimented and “splashed off” one another. It also anticipates the sampling era to come, but the analogue physicality and precision required to pull the piece of without the aid of electronics gives it a spark all its own.

The elaborate collaging of “Matthew’s Line” previews the two longer pieces on Side Two, “Mischievous Eve” and “Goodbye Stagelost.” On these quasi-theatrical pieces, the Horsemen lean into the characters their voices suggest: the plummy British accent of the Sheffield-born McCaffery makes him a natural for playing the role of a fusty square, though he is never far from descending into gibbering imbecility; Barreto-Rivera’s Latin-accented good cheer provides an earthy counterpoint, even as he often lapses into Spanish passages that deepen the complexity of following their ratatat chemistry; Nichol has a measured, precise cadence, leading his colleagues like a conductor even as he often dives the furthest into abstraction; little Paul Dutton’s boyish, wiseacre Ontario deadpan sounds like one of the Kids in the Hall, making him the perfect foil when things need deflating. These longer selections resemble a slapstick update of the overlapping dialogues in the second part of Eliot’s The Waste Land, found writing and original material and classical literature swirled together to capture life in the charnel house of modern culture, but with more jokes (a special tip of the cap to Dutton’s passing allusion to Nichol’s “dick-washing habits”).

Fifty years down the line, sound and concrete poetry have little presence in the Canadian scene (or internationally, for that matter) outside of a few holdouts of the old guard. Almost nothing on the shelves or the stage feels as genuinely creative or lively as this old record does. I haven’t the space or energy here to litigate the institutionalization of the genre, but I know in my bones that the world could use a little more nastiness like this.

300/365

#bpNichol #rafael barreto-rivera #steve mcaffery #paul dutton #four horsemen #sound poetry #avant garde #avant garde poetry #spoken word poetry #poetry #vinyl record #'70s poetry #concrete poetry #counter culture #toronto #coach house press

[jay-avian]

My first contrapuntal poem. The two poems can be read individually and as one (just read both lines left to right)

#original poetry #poetry #creative writing #writing

[finishinglinepress]

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Into the Ancient presents #America as a post-patriarchal empire rife with entangled narratives erupting outside its conventional dying metaphors: collages of nostalgia entangled with post-modern decollage (Borrowed Browns), the future of our natural world trapped inside a Devil’s sexy endgame (Curve Wind), a pornography adjacent to love and loss (Flesh Cartography, Splendor) billboarded super models above Jehovah Witnesses (Low Ghosts in Brooklyn). The poems also present the quotidian turning provocative: a soldier’s longing wandering a convenient store (parallax), one’s individual agency wrestling with classical, gendered mythologies (Pandora and Orpheus, Spotting Odysseus). The poems wades in a textured poetics of allusion, imagery and metaphor, in an effort to decipher the ever-evolving, or mutating field of contact between enduring consciousness and fleeting awareness, between overly-normative cultural expectations and personal revelation. The #poems invariably twist away from traditional storylines to convey ideas strategically working out-of-synch, or contrapuntally, to bring the reader toward a lucid, emotive complexity.

Joe Hess is from Columbus, Ohio and received his MA from Miami University and MFA from Ashland University. You can find his work in The Ekphrastic Review, Into the Void, Lime Hawk, Postcard Poems and Prose, Helen Literary Magazine, Fourth and Sycamore, and a 2017 anthology from Shabda Press entitled Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands. His chapbook, Trauma Décor, was released in January 2022.

PRAISE FOR Into the Ancient by Joseph M. Hess

In Hess’s Into the Ancient, a book that leaps centuries, landscapes, and modes of telling, the poet draws our attention most vividly to our essential loneliness. The ongoing historical traumas—personal and public—that inform these cinematic poems are rendered without sentiment. They do not comfort but speak their truth.

–Kathy Fagan, Kingsley Tufts finalist and author of Bad Hobby

Sharp, self-lacerating, and elegant, Into the Ancient crosses several continents while digging into memories: ex-lovers, a tragically lost brother. In Joe Hess’s exacting mirror, a troubling American style of loving, fogged-over and obscure against a late Cold War backdrop, starts to come clear.

–Cathy Wagner, author of Of Course. New York: Fence Books, 2020, Nervous Device. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2012, My New Job. New York: Fence Books, 2009, Macular Hole. New York: Fence Books, 2004, and Miss America. New York: Fence Books, 2001.

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[teology]

you think you know how to string words together until you try to write a contrapuntal poem

#amwriting #poetry #poetryblr #writing

[robertjtiess]

I invite you to read my poem "Contrapuntal,"

something I submitted for a 26-word poetry challenge.

I hope you enjoy it.

Poem text link:

allpoetry.com/poem/17145491-Contrapuntal-by-Robert-J.-Tiess

#poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poets #birds #nature #tyranny #liberty #freedom #death #life #metaphors

[limejuicer1862]

#TheWombwellRainbow #PoeticFormsChallenge #Trinitas was last week's chosen form.

#TheWombwellRainbow #PoeticFormsChallenge #Trinitas was last week’s chosen form.

How Did It Go? I enjoy writing this contrapuntal style of poetry, the back and forth and the weaving of melodies. In this simple poem, I only had to tweak one transition. The real challenge, I find, is in the cleave form, in which the two separate poems should be very different in mood. Blending them to make one satisfying poem is tricky. -Jane Dougherty How Did It Go? It took a while to get…

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[beforethepreposition]

https://www.penumbraonline.org/movie-making.html

#black poet #japanese poet #black poets on tumblr #black poetry #poetry #black tumblr #my poetry #contrapuntal poem #contrapuntals #contrapuntal poetry

[bvlavender]

A Story A Day Keeps COVID Away – 12/02/20: I know exactly nothing

I know exactly what I'll do today                                                             i'm going to do nothing I know exactly what I want from life                                                             and that's fucking something I know exactly who I am                                                             better than this and I know exactly who you are                                                             better than me.

#astoryadaykeepsCOVIDaway #coronavirus #covid-19 #writing #poetry #writers on tumblr #contrapuntal #contrapuntal poem #I had a very different idea for a contrapuntal poem #a while ago #but didn’t finish it #and now I can’t for the life of me #figure out how it should go

[kosotree]

The things we have

[image description: Poem called 'The things we have' written in black pen on paper. Contrapuntal form, it has 3 columns that can be read either column by column or across each other from left to right. Poem Text: Grief is/ like swimming,/ is waves/ sinking into cacophony/ repeat/ again and again/

Singing/ is suspended in/ crashing/ moments/ together/ It's all we have/

For the ocean/ silence/ overhead means/ that/ all we have is now/ It's all we know/

Grief is singing for the ocean/ like swimming, is suspended in silence/ is waves crashing overhead, means/ sinking into cacophony; moments that/ repeat together. all we have is now/ again and again. It's all we have. It's all we know.]

#writerscreedchallenge #koso poems #tried out a new form for this #contrapuntal #also #lots of ocean imagery condidering the fact I spent most of my life in the world's biggest landlocked country #creative liberties eh? #my work #original poetry #poems #poetry #original work #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #poets of tumblr

[daisysdaisysdaisy]

echo or origin? //

I tried my hand at a contrapuntal poem.//

It can be read as three different poems going across, the first column alone, or the second column alone.

#poetry #my poetry #poem #writing #contrapuntal #writeblr #writblr #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr