Jason Wilkins
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My cousin Rich and I created Rictameter in the early 1990's when we frequently engaged in regular poetic contest during the weekly meetings of our self-invented order, The Brotherhood of the Amarantos Mystery, which was inspired by the movie Dead Poet's Society. It's a cyclical form that represents life expanding from birth and returning to the beginning again at death. I enjoy centering the justification so that it makes a diamond or circular shape indicative of this continuity, however, it is not required of the form.
The first examples of the rictameter form to be made public were submissions made by myself to the website www.shadowpoetry.com in 2000. These are the first two poems created by Rich and I, so many years ago.
Satin
As your lips are
Pressed to mine as velvet
Soft and full with rounded sweetness
Two gentle petals alive with the night
Misted in the summer beauty
Of rains that shower love
'Pon your lips of
Satin
submitted by Jason D. Wilkins
Treasure
Placed in your view
So close but out of reach
Torturous to all your senses
For they each cry aloud to possess it
Their desires forever unquenched
For the things some want most
They cannot have
Treasure
submitted by Richard W. Lunsford, Jr.
I'd like to see what everyone else can do with the form. I have truly enjoyed reading so many gifted poets push this form towards perfection over the years. Its acceptance worldwide has been incredibly humbling and awe-inspiring as well.
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May the world find peace today. May India be saved from hatred and violence. May we each seek compassion and faith to lend our share of energy to the greater salvation of us all. God Bless.
Peace, Love, and Good Journey,
Jason
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This is very appealing
Though it strikes me as the kind of thing that is vulnerable to "we cannot understand God so simply" arguments. Regardless, I think it is a fine spiritual foundation and I'd like to hear more!It is very vulnerable to the argument because God cannot be understood simply. In order to understand God, you must first understand yourself and your place in the universe. While knowing God and experiencing God can be quite simple, understanding completely the full extent of a universal consciousness that is both Creator and Creation is a bit much for our limited minds to fathom. As soon as you name and describe an aspect of the whole, you simultaneously create the opposite. That is why it is said;
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
~Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching - Stanza 1
Peace, Love, and Good Journey, Brother,
Jason
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May blessings of abundance, success, and joy pour upon you and your family. May your every undertaking find its path and keep you well.
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Mi Hermano,
Tu hablas verdad. Gracias por este regalo mas hermoso.
The only thing we need do is recognize God in everyone and love one another. Even the tortured soul that commits heinous and vicious crimes is created of God for a purpose. We can not always see the purpose for the failings of our self-centered fears and prejudices, but it is there regardless.
"...And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest. of these is love"
When we love God truly, we will love each other completely
When we love each other completely, we love God fully.
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Because they are faster than I am.
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James Oliver Rigney, Jr.
October 17, 1948 - September 16, 2007
"May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home."
a.k.a. Robert Jordan
a.k.a. The Dragon
His wife Harriet has all of his notes on paper or tape. She has edited his novels since the beginning and no one knows his world better than she. She will complete his masterpiece. All the more heartbreaking will be the scene where Rand must die upon the slopes of Mount Doom knowing that it is Harriet who must pen this tragic ending. She will have to say goodbye twice.
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Save the Light of Outer Worlds
for
CHILDREN
And The
People Less Affected by Youth
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Sunshine on my face
Broken through the rain at last
Brightening my day
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While Up and Down I cruised the street
No Strange Charm did I find
Though I did look from Bottom feet
To Top of bald-head mind.
My Positrons all gave a spin
My Muons all did dance
And then my Gluons broke on in
While Photons looked askance
The Axions and Axinos all gathered in their nest
It might be me
(We'll wait and see)
But I like Squarks the best
The Graviscalar Tachyons
Were tuning up their Dyons
While several random Tardyons
Pursued the speedy Luxons
So as we see, a quark or three
Can be so very stable
And form a certain ordered Charm -
Like a Periodic Table
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...glitter-blind the sillies...
I love that line. It's so, "mimsy were the borogoves" Lewis Carroll-ish.
quark...strange
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We are all as one, God's Grand Imagination. The eternally spiraling motion of evolving wonder.
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~ Thank you everyone!
That pearl earring tossed me
with each swaying movement
Deeper into your voice.
666? That's not haiku! That's SATAMETER!!!
Sneaky evil number
Hiding behind your words
Winking at those who see...
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Fancy that!
A mousey-cat
A beast that eats itself
Like time and fat
This Mobius Cat
Must surely spin in health!
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I can't seem to figure out how to locate my posted poems.
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We thank the Hensleys for their gift of freedom and their vision of unity. Our thoughts and prayers go out to your family. May blessings and good fortune find you.
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Christ the Lord by Anne Rice
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"The Tao of Inner Peace"
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"The Science of Mind"
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Ah. I see now. heh heh
Well, the Camulod Chronicles are a great non-magical retelling and redesign of the Arthurian Legend. Jack Whyte is a brilliant author. As for Dune, there are many who love the first book. Beyond that, many fans are lost, especially when you get to the books written by Herbert's son.
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Tolkien and Robert Jordan are also great books, though I think I'm two behind in the Wheel of Time. Never read 3 and 4
You must read The Dragon Reborn (aka Book Three) It's the best of the series. Come to think of it, Book Four is probably the next best because it shows us the Aiel society and it's culture in their native Waste. Fascinating people, the Aiel. Sort of like the Fremen of Dune.
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I am about to begin The Science of Mind by Dr. Ernest Holmes. I'll let you know how it goes...
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I've been reading Runelords for about a week now. It's okay, so far, but nothing grand. Maybe the the writer will get better by the end of the book.
Sadly, it does not.
I am currently reading, Dune. Unlike Runelords, it is so far a very fascinating story.
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Terry Goodkind's- Magic Kingdom for Sale, Sold, great book.
Flower
Thats by Terry Brooks, not Terry Goodkind. Terry Goodkind wrote the Sword of Truthseries.
My Top 51. Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series
2. Anything by Tolkien
3. Frank Herbert's "Dune"
4. Jack Whyte's "Camulod Chronicles" (May not qualify as fantasy, more historical fiction, but still a GREAT read)
5. J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series
8-)
I don't think anything about a fictional character's (King Arthur) grandparents and a fictional city can be considered historical fiction. It's just fiction.
Please, do pardon my ignorance. I meant no offense and I apologize if any categorical laws were broken. I meant to say that the story is a great read, fiction as it is.
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