her music
her music:
softly bowed
hovering fragments -
filaments
troubling the still surface of
the wine of silence
this piece uses a form suggested by anne welch who is moderating "one stop poetry" this week.
it is called a "shadorma".
i love the name instinctively.
the architecture of the piece is intriguing: the shadorma is made up of a stanza of six lines with no set rhyme scheme. it is organized around a syllabic formula of 3/5/3/3/7/5.
it can have many stanzas, as long as each follows the meter.
this is my first shadorma.
visual prompt generously provided by tess at magpie tales.
for more variations on the shadorma please visit "one stop poetry" .
Shadorma sounds more like an Arabic pita wrap with hot white sauce!
ReplyDeleteBut I really like this poem. I read it several times out loud and heard different meanings with each read. "...the still surface of
the wine of silence." is a very thought provoking notion.
Rick
Interesting steven, didn't know about it.
ReplyDeleteYour first shadorma is subtle and melodious, like power of silence.
Have a good day.
oa.s
Whatever a 'shadorma' is and whoever invented it, your poem is a sweet example of it.
ReplyDeleterick - that looks good. "rick's shadorma palace". i'd be dropping in next time i ride through rochester!! thanks for giving my writing a read or three. steven
ReplyDeleteoa.s, thanks for your kind comment. i don;t usually stray from my own style of writing. i'm not a fan of rules for creating but this one had a quality about it that appealed to me. steven
ReplyDeletefriko thankyou very much!!! steven
ReplyDeleteExquisite. Intriguing poetic form, as well. Always a pleasure to have you at Magpie, Steven. x
ReplyDeletePoetry form is so complicated. How do you do it? I am (as I often am) in awe.
ReplyDeleteHow well the form worked for you in this Magpie!
ReplyDeleteIt does sound like a Lebanese dish, I was thinking the same as R. Burnett Baker. Yours is replete with ripples of a story. I feel the weight of what is, as if puffs of air are breathed out of a woman's story. And what a great way to "describe" music: hovering fragments.
ReplyDeleteI also was introduced to the Shadorma through One Stop. I've been enjoying trying my hand at the form. I'll be featuring on Tuesday a series of new pieces I wrote.
ReplyDeleteThe form forces an economy requiring carefully chosen words to carry the image or images. It seems to allow for a surprising amount of feeling.
Your own first effort is lovely.
Ah, the Spanish do have a way with poetry .. this is a lovely style ~ as is your poem.
ReplyDeleteHi Steven~ I can feel the vibrations from the bowed filaments while the wine remains silent. A deep moment of solitude. The shasdorma is melodic and fits her music. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWell done for straying, Steven! I think that I must try this, being as I live in Spain. I went onto 'one stop poetry' as you suggested. I guess that you normally follow your own flow, as most poets probably do.
ReplyDeleteThe poem is indeed lovely ... and the wine, enchantingly visualised in your words.
I like this! I will have to try one...evoking piece...well done.
ReplyDeleteShadorma sounds like a really nice girl's name Steven.
ReplyDeletetess, it's good for me to mess around inside other forms. thanks for the prompt and the support. steven
ReplyDeletereya i'm still trying to figure out the whole thing of being "a writer". I'm not convinced i am but then brian eno used to say he wasn't a musician . . . . hmmmm. steven
ReplyDeletewell jinksy thankyou very much. steven
ReplyDeleteruth i sometimes feel the presence of women as music. it's the same hovering presence. just there and rich with colour, physicality. do you know what i mean? steven
ReplyDeletehello and welcome maureen, i'll be wandering by the page over at one stop to read as many pieces as i can including your work. i want to learn about how writers write. thanks for your kind comment. steven
ReplyDeleteSteven, you had me at "music softly bowed"...everything else was icing on the cake.
ReplyDeleteThe word "shadorma" rolls beautifully off the tongue. It's now officially going on my list of favorite words. Thank you!
helen i think we're thinking of the same spanish poets who leave me in awe when i read their work. thanks for your kind comment. steven
ReplyDeletemargaret my thinking is that sometimes women are present as music and leave ripples in the wine of silence simply by virtue of their presence. it's this disturbance that creates change. steven
ReplyDeleteaguja - i want to know what and who and how i am as a writer. perhaps even to know why. if none of those are revealed or become apparent then i've had a good journey no matter what. steven
ReplyDeletedonna b. play with words and your thoughts and understandings and especially with your beliefs. let them tumble and tear asunder and then reassemble them as you see fit. steven
ReplyDeleteweaver - it would work nicely as a girl's name. google translate says it translates out as itself which is nice because it could just as easily mean "monkey breath " or something!! steven
ReplyDeletejo that's like double treats - nice words from the creative universe and a special word for your list. i so get that!!! steven
ReplyDeleteShadorma, love that form (although I have yet to try it myself!).
ReplyDeleteAnd this phrase from your poem, "the wine of silence." Ironic and perfect.
a fine taste in your poem
ReplyDeleteVery interesting form that I have not come across before.
ReplyDeleteExcellent, to the point.
ReplyDeleteA very beautiful first foray into this intriguing poem form, Steven. The piece is evocative as the hum of a cello and the fragrance of wine, all of which I find in these lines.
ReplyDeletecute talent,
ReplyDeletebeautiful write…
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