[stylist] Sharing a pantoum Azure Skies

Mon Mar 25 16:59:26 UTC 2013

I have been thinking lately about the words that we use over the years in 
our own writing.  As I am working on my archives, I am coming across some 
words that are very consistently in my lexicon over a long time - since the 
70s.  A project I would like to tackle when I have a space of time to do it 
would be to explore my own vocabulary and begin to weave the pieces together 
as I encounter them - a research project into my own work.

Azure is really a state of mind.
I am sure I have never used that word in anything I have written - it's a 
very beautiful word that evokes so many hues - Reading Myrna's poem seemed 
to open up a window for me this morning - a window into the heavens because 
it implies a kind of transparent or translucency.
Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing a pantoum Azure Skies

>I have a Myrna folder, too.
> Azure is one of those words I work in to poems on occasion.  My other 
> favorite sky color is cerulean.
> So, Lynda, what is the difference between azure and cerulean?  And I 
> thought cyan was the color that is an even mix of blue and green, 
> somewhere between aqua and turquoise.
> Barbara
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> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:54 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing a pantoum Azure Skies
>
> Here is my thoughts after reading this excellent poem:
>
> This Pantoum is so rich in mythological imagery. It is ethereal.
>
> Your choice of the two noun, Zephyr, combined with Breeze,
>
> gives the feeling of lightness,fluidity, and fragility.
>
> And then you pull into this combination the color that is  historically
> mythological - Azure!
>
> Together the two words denote anything that is very fine and light, and 
> even
> magical in nature.
>
>
>
> The Zephyr is such a fragile kind of breeze - in ancient times it was 
> known
> as the "West Wind."
>
>
>
> Azure always makes us bring out thoughts to the heights, upwards, to the
> sky, and even the atmosphere. It is a delicate blue, yet rich in value. At
> times it is called "Alice Blue."
>
> In early times, painters would not use Azure as a pigment because they
> believed it to be unstable, but in time, it was realized that it was 
> indeed
> a stable color and after that we began to see it brought into paintings.
> Typically, it would be used in paintings of sacred events - it denoted
> royalty, and holiness.
>
>
>
> I think your poem gives allusions to these things so well, and 
> particularly
> it works because of the Pantoum form. I noticed immediately that you used
> the traditional Pantoum form, using end rhymes. You did it so well that 
> the
> poem does not have the kind of rigidity that often comes via a rhymed
> ending. Your rhyming end words retain the lightness you created from the
> first line.
>
>
>
> In photography and on the web, Azure is a color that  is also called Cyan.
>
> Often this color is called light sky blue, baby blue, and silver lake 
> blue.
> I have a feeling that this color will be found in the art of just about 
> any
> civilization, and it will be used with the depiction of things from 
> Nature.
>
> I suspect you could do an entire research project on the topic of "Azure
> Skies."  It is that BIG in scope, I think.
>
>
>
> OH, the other thing that was strange as I read this poem, is that I had 
> read
>
> "brush" as "blush" without realizing it.  So I went back once I realized I
> had mis-read the poem, and I purposely read it as "blush" in those 
> places -
> and WOW, again, the idea of painting and the movement of the artist's hand
> was so clear to me.
>
>
>
> This is a very "painterly poem."
>
>
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> I started a Myrna folder, so I can keep some of your gems - this one is in
> it!
>
> Lynda
>
>
>
> My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
> My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <KajunCutie926 at aol.com>
> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:28 PM
> Subject: [stylist] Sharing a pantoum Azure Skies
>
>
>> Okay here is my last pantoum which I believe was written about three 
>> months
>> ago...  I also attached it as  a rich text file...
>>
>> Azure Skies
>>
>> That I could soar across  azure skies
>> To leave my thoughts upon zephyr's breeze
>> And ask no quarter  or compromise
>> When night time comes and darkness bleeds
>>
>> To leave my  thoughts upon zephyr's breeze
>> Brush stroked dreams, watercolor hued
>> When  night time comes and darkness bleeds
>> Upon the echo of my soul  renewed
>>
>> Brush stroked dreams, watercolor hued
>> They fill the heart  where grief had grown
>> Upon the echo of my soul renewed
>> The truth of these  thoughts unknown
>>
>> They fill the heart where grief had grown
>> And ask no  quarter or compromise
>> The truth of these thoughts unknown
>> That I could  soar across azure skies
>>
>>
>> nfbnet.org/kajuncutie926%40aol.com
>>
>>
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