Monthly Archives: October 2016

October 23, 2016

Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse ~ 23 October 2016

Happy Sunday! Can I just say that I LOVE this week’s Shi Sai?! Well, I do! It perfectly sums up the week that was in the wake of this month’s Super Hunter’s / Blood Moon. It’s energy can be summed up nicely by this Rumi quote:

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

As different as the posts were this week, when I lifted a line from each, the message became undeniable clear to me. My subconscious found her voice, prodding me to embrace those things that feed my soul!

In truth, I have been moving along this path for a while, but this week’s full moon energy just put a stamp on it. Signed, sealed…it’s time to deliver. And I have never been more ready. 😊

Have a wonderful week!

Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse ~ 23 October 2016

“Oh! I’m sorry! Too much? Not enough?”
two restless souls stared at the ceiling
fast asleep
moon-blushed crimson, rooting deep,
shape-shifting shadows
it was a grim sight.
she was beginning to realize, and didn’t mind admitting to herself, that she wanted more
why simply frolick?
sometimes tradition is meant to be broken
listen to the beautiful, deep.

~kat

The Shi Sai, (formerly known as a ReVerse) is a new form I came up with during Poetry Month in April 2016. I’ve actually been writing shu sai for years but was inspired to give it a proper name. It is a poem created by taking one line of verse from several poems of an author’s own collection. The shi sai is done as a review of a series or collection of poems and therefore, each line should flow in chronological order of the dates the poems were written (from oldest to new). The lines chosen should be the author’s favorite from each poem. This form works best if the author resists the temptation to read the full new poem before all the verses have been added. (It helps one to resist the impulse to change a line to make it “fit”.

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October 22, 2016

quieted – Magnetic Poetry Saturday – 22 October 2016

By Kat Myrman

quieted

if poetry was not a
thing, I would likely never
know how sweet it is
listen to the beautiful, deep
longing of my soul.

kat ~ 22 October 2016

For Specks and Fragrments Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge.

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October 21, 2016

But Tradition…a Three Line Tale

By Kat Myrman

Photo by William Bout

“It was tradition after all,” the teens told themselves, “kids have always climbed to the top of the old lighthouse to celebrate the end of school, to set their dreams for the future, written on small squares of paper, free to sail on the wind!

No matter that a fierce storm was fast approaching the inlet, so severe that even those who lived on higher, dry ground had already left the island seeking the safety of the mainland, tradition was tradition and Dream Night always happened on the first Monday after graduation, no exceptions.

So they ventured to the lighthouse, fearing that changing to another night might ruin the chances for their dreams to come true but the wind whipped the waves into furious swells swallowing them all with their dreams still intact, clenched in their cold wet hands, as a dozen young people learned too late that sometimes tradition is meant to be broken.

kat ~ 21 October 2016

A Three Line Tale for Sonya’s weekly challenge Three Line Tale for Sonya’s weekly challenge based on the photo above by William Bout. Veering from tradition seems to be a theme for me when it comes to these three line story challenges. But hey, nothing wrong with that right?! I definitely makes life interesting.:)

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October 21, 2016

Rollick – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

rollick

In the field of linguistics, when two words are combined into one word, the resulting new word is called a “blend word” or more specifically, as is the case with today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day Dictionary.com Word of the Day, a “portmanteau”. Wikipedia gives an excellent definition with examples for the word portmanteau:

A portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words, or their phones (sounds), and their meanings are combined into a new word. A portmanteau word fuses both the sounds and the meanings of its components, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes. (In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language. In other words, it is the smallest meaningful unit of a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology.)

“Rollick” is thought to be the result of blending the words “romp” and “frolick”, entering the English language around the early 1800’s.

Were the early 1800’s particularly rollick-worthy? My inquiring mind needed to know! So I launched google in a search of historical events of the 1800’s (or 19^th century). Here’s what I found:

Historical Event	Rollick Meter
Napolean worked on building his empire conquering Italy, Rome and Spain, as well as transforming France from a consulate to an empire, with you know who as its Emperor!	Meh…not so much a rollicking series of events …unless of course, you were Napoleon! Was Napoleon known for rollicking? I wonder…:)
Alexander Hamilton was mortally wounded in a duel (yes, duels really happened… SMH) with Aaron Burr.	Not so rollicky for old Alexander, but a good day for Mr. Burr.
Alessandro Volta produces electricity!	Definitely a rollick-worthy event! Woo Hoo Al!
The Battle at Waterloo…bub-bye Napoleon!	Yes there was rollicking…lots and lots of rollicking!
Lewis and Clark launch their expedition.	I’m thinking they may have had a rollicking send off.
Washington DC was established as the capital of the U.S.	More rollicking…I’m certain of it. J
In Virginia, Martha Washington set all her slaves free.	…and more. Midst the bad and usual ugly shenanigans we humans get involved in…there were definitely some bright spots…most definitely, some rollicking to be had!