Matt
Trease’s prompt had us acquiring our astrological charts and using the
language of the signs and the degrees of the location of our signs within the planets
(Sabian symbols) to make a poem. This had me all at sea. I won’t whine about my
lack of understanding or appreciation for astrology, I will just say that I
dove in, using both the astrological information from my natal chart and the
technique of other similar concepts, such as the I Ching.
From
the relevant Sabian symbols in Elsie
Wheeler’s and Elias
Lonsdale’s guides for my sign and the particular degrees from my
natal chart, I categorized as much of the text as I had index cards for into
PERSONS, CREATURES, OBJECT/CONCEPT, ACTION, QUALIFIER. I was able to make it
through all the signs. I plucked from each pile, sometimes more than once per
sign. I sometimes rejected dull words in favour of another.
SUN
Today
I
am a magician
compelled
to take on
real
figures, springboarding
into
the pulse of voyages to
bring
to life previous
resonances
MOON
Today
I am my self
I
recognize control
to
be uplifting, an
imperative
of place
Its
sheer sea counts
as
nature
MERCURY
Today
I am
a
wizard sweating
incorrigibly
in the
reckoning
of false
rituals
I count
unnoticed
treasures
and
semblances
I
stir havoc
VENUS
Today
I am a soul
I
swim into
interpersonal
chemistries
which
frame
my human
intelligence
MARS
Today
I am a body
revealing
worth like
a
strip of distortions
along
a voyage Help
me
to swim into time
I
am thrust into sharp
waves
JUPITER
Today
I am an undersoul
needing
no better
dynamics
than most
why
sense my live
experience
to embrace
experience
why pass
through
a still vial
of
soul-memory
SATURN
Today
I am a youngster
wreaking
time with my
reality
of keen pressures
without
faculties to
remain
strong Yes,
I
demand better
URANUS
Today
I am a witch
I
blend in even though
I
blindly thrash against
old
forces that take up
against
universal figures
of
power
NEPTUNE
Today
I am a man
I
teach myself to
open
I need to handle
intuitive
basics I cycle
through
authenticity
like
a bird in times
of
downward karma
PLUTO
Today
I am a woman
who
wears herself
out
with wounds,
lessons
from dispassionate
change,
who denies doorways
in
search of desire
TRUE
NODE
Today
I am a serpent
I
spin away from
strategic
magic
away
from the chutes
of
blurred existence
which
try to make
facts
out of glass
CHIRON
Today
I am both
swan and
hawk I act
collectively
with
super-sensitivity
as
I take loops of
faith
and cook up
frenzies
to touch
the
source, a gift
of
accuracy that
transforms
action
into
humanity
Play along!
For those of you who are just joining us, The Found Poetry Review is celebrating National Poetry Month by offering daily experimental writing prompts from writers. I will be responding to them at poetic whim.
For those of you who are just joining us, The Found Poetry Review is celebrating National Poetry Month by offering daily experimental writing prompts from writers. I will be responding to them at poetic whim.
3 comments:
Pluto is a very strong stanza. Gorgeous writing.
thanks, Marilyn & thanks for continuing to read the daily poems.
i've just now clued in that you're Misky. slow! i hope to read more of your poems too :)
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