[stylist] Sharing a pantoum Azure Skies Thank you all!

Barbara Hammel poetlori8 at msn.com
Tue Mar 26 05:17:11 UTC 2013 

Oooo!  You've used cerulean in a poem?  Maybe I'll have to look up my poems 
that have mentioned azure or cerulean.  (I might even want to try my hand at 
making them better but I have this thing in my head that tells me: once they 
are done, they are done.  You said what you wanted at the time so leave it 
alone.  Rewriting would make me consider it a whole new poem.  Crazy, I 
know, but it is what it is.)
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: KajunCutie926 at aol.com
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 1:04 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing a pantoum Azure Skies Thank you all!

Thank you to all for your kind words and sharing your own unique
perspectives about the poem.
I too have folders.. a main NFB folder and sub-folders.  I am very  humbled
that others have created a folder for my work.
Shawn nailed it about the contrast of azure which denotes beauty and light
and the sorrow and darkness.  This poem was inspired by the time after my
husband's death. It was so unexpected that I found myself in a dark place
but at  the same time I wanted to embrace the sky.  The discussion of colors
was  really interesting to me as I use color in much of my work and have 
even
written  about cerulean.  Now I am thinking about cyan and how to work that
into a  piece.
Again thank you so much!  Now off to do more reading.
Myrna


In a message dated 3/25/2013 12:00:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
llambert at zoominternet.net writes:

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
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  ----- 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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