WRITING | POETRY

How to Craft a Spell with Your Words

Words are Magical. That’s why we Spell them.

Wise Wednesday Wizard Words (a.k.a., writing prompt) compliments of the sensational Diana C.

“Words are spells. Thoughts are intentions. Actions are rituals.”

Bard’s College — The Magic of the Craft

When rhyming or when setting up the structure for rhyming, if one is able to present a certain stac●ca●to especially in a style which naturally lends itself to flow and to the anticipation of a rhyme, then all words begin to mysteriously seem to rhyme — even when they don’t.

for example ( take this spell ):

The key needs a key for you to unlock, there is visual magic in all sounds; if you imagine the rock of the roll sensual sensations suddenly found.

There are true rhymes in this example as expected from the structure (“sounds” and “found”) as well as rhymes within the sentence itself — and yes, that is one sentence. A late rock comes along and pairs with an early unlock. Since a word can rhyme with itself, key and key lay the “pop” of the piece to begin the staccato. If you read this piece two or three times and focus, with intention, on the varying elements (rhymes, rhythm, structure, precise wording, hidden sub-text, etc.) you can easily get lost in a world where everything seems to rhyme. Imagine pulls from magic, visual brings new layers to sounds, and the example ends with an alliterative sensual slowdown that slides seamlessly together.

Writing is a ritual, or at least — it can be. If proper intention is brought to the moment | if one’s thoughts are gathered and surrendered to the infinite possibility of creation | if one presents the space, the boundless majesty, the expansive tragedy of releasing all other thought, can one not in that moment be said to be a conduit?

This, my sapient silver-tongued sages is how to hope to write for the ages. This, my delightfully dear devotees is the key to the key of Everything’s pages.

Writing prompt from Diana C. at Know Thyself, Heal Thyself, a home for an Old Soul like me.

“Words are Magical. That’s why we spell them.”

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