555 Days... The Continuation

Welcome to 555 Days as a Poet by The Crafty Scribe

Back in 2010, I challenged myself to write a poem or a short verse a day, and post it to a blog. 555 Days as a Poet by The Crafty Scribe is the continuation of the experiment.

I gave myself 18 months to recover from the original daily blog postings, and now, I am ready to start it all over again. Although as I was beginning in the middle of the year, I thought 6 months was too short a time after my last experience.

"If I could complete a year of poems, how about 18 months?" I thought. I worked out that would be 549 days. I could have rounded it up to 550 to included New Years Day 2014, but then I thought I'd go 5 better... to 555 days.

Why 555? According to many spiritual teachers, the number 555 is a sign of change and the flow of energy. I thought it related to the blog. I spent a year writing a poem every day, then rested for 18 months. Now the tide has turned. It's time to begin the flow of words in my life again.

I'm not a trained poet, just an enthusiastic scribe wanting to create something new each day. I don't truly know my stanza from my meter, but I hope to improve and get my poetic license someday! Expect the weird, the strange and the inner workings of the Crafty Scribe's mind. Let's ride the waves once more.

Please pass on the blog address to all your verse and lyrical loving friends. I hope you will join me, and read my daily scribbling.
Showing posts with label sound. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sound. Show all posts

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

"A Raw Silence" (Entry 388)

Some thing's enter this life with a roar. 
A human baby's cry that parents adore. 
First breath of announcement or even anguish. 
New born arrival comes with its own language. 
A New Year enters by fireworks and bells. 
Artificial time's passing with songs, chants and yells. 

Then there's those that enter by way of silence. No sound. 
Like true time shown without whisper by that wrinkle newly found. 
Nor does the spider on its web and it weaves. 
Or death which enters when the last sigh leaves. 

Then do we dare step beyond to see who are the silent that enter?
Like Angels, the unseen, who live at soul's centre. 
The hosts of energy, love is their being. 
They whisper in the quiet - all-knowing, all-seeing.

Sunday, 24 March 2013

"Waxed then Waned" (Entry 265)

Plugged these lug holes.
With soften malleable waxed cones
To shut out, not postpone, the sound of the unsilenced.
To jam where no band can slam.
Used beyond its use
To absorb noise and ear's substance.
Body temperature tempted the debris.
Now made of a wax of a different kind.
Disposable disposed,
New items reloaded
To remove the loudest.

Thursday, 16 August 2012

"Who's There?" (Entry 47)

A distant crackle in silent air.
New moon's hiding in universal lair.
Tuneless whistle, rhythm changed,
Getting closer, a noise deranged.
A tread on stone in single beat,
that joins the song, now tread of feet.

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

"Silence Way" (Entry 25)

Some things enter this life with a roar.
A human's baby's cry,
that first breath of announcement in anguish.
A New Year
enters by bells and fireworks,
and yet again,
human's cries at the passing of their own making.
Marking three - six - five gone,
(or three - six - six in four, muddled in time before)
Another arrives in new numerical order.

Then
there are those things that enter
by way of silence.
Such as,
the true passing of time, shown as
a wrinkle
which appears without a whisper.
Or death
which enters when the last sigh leaves.

Most we do not even know they are there,
for they are the others that entered in silence.
The angels, those celestial unseen,
those most powerful slip by without hush,
Hosts of energy sans ego.
They move around us, without triumph horns.
They are with you now.
Do you feel them? Or hear them?
As they go about their silence way.