Svadhisthana
Turning a self-reflection prompt on its head to compose a dizain of Providential passion
Diana C.’s 12th of 50 prompts for self-reflection is:
How can you become more mindful of the way you handle composure vs. emotional expression?
Diana has said of prompts generally: “Play of words & creativity is what it is all about.”
I decided to have some fun playing Diana’s game of words while crafting another love dizain. In the words of Somsubhra Banerjee in which he challenges us to try many uncommon poetic forms:
French poetic forms:-
The dizain was a favorite of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century French poets, but it has also been employed in English by the likes of Philip Sidney and John Keats. Here are the basic rules:
One ten-line stanza Ten syllables per line Employs the following rhyme scheme: ababbccdcd
The Poem
More mindful? More aware? Why should I care? Handle composure? Compose like Handel? Composers express love with so much flare. Can my composition hold a candle? Can’t stop thinking about your love handles. I so enjoy multiple entendre. Soulmate love foretold goddess Cassandra When our energy ignites lightning flash We will reinvent erotic genre Expressing emotion without abash
Tagging a few of my many MediumVerse friends and/or colleagues for participation with the uncommon forms and Diana’s 50 in 50 challenge: Claire Kelly Stuart Englander Agnes Laurens Melanie J. Joseph Lieungh Jean Carfantan Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D. Rita Duponty Tree Langdon Spyder Anthi Psomiadou James G Brennan Dr. Fatima Imam Dr. Preeti Singh Dr. Amy Pierovich William J Spirdione MDSHall I. Trudie Palmer Thief Jupiter Grant
In Rama I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,
