Thursday, June 18, 2015

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP: A Personified Notion


























SAM AND FRODO WERE FRIENDS



Their story is the story of heroes and
anima personified; psyche is storytelling.
But names, sometimes, are meaningless
until you see how they form mental pictures.

Sam & Frodo were hobbits undergoing transition
also meaningless until translated into Sam
human-like and his best Frodo, a name in
elven meaning “old-wise”. No wonder Gandalf 

stuck to him.  Undergo a dark fiction unbelievingly
and without believing Frodo has existence in Sam
have faith in the instinctual form that Sam intuits.
Let what Sam grows to understand Frodo endures
count. Let vice versa.

Cross-stitchery is body-work and movies move us
inward in “movie” ways, moving ring-like abjections
from object to fabric; be prepared to let go.

Images arise and wither and nothing shows up
outside the weave in the work; an opus perfects an X
cross stitched, yes, but not in perfect symmetry.

The god, the animal, the individual
what lived, what died when the fiction happened and
though separation occurs the day Frodo leapt
did it separate Sam from the Frodo born to him?

In every death, a leap.
Two pass into immensity from the
approaching now rejoining itself in the past. An
intimate separation is like a veil―I loved her and we
watched the movie together but when we came
out of darkness there was too much light.

She said to me then, sometimes
a body won’t return from the adventure
and the last thing I see now so intimately, intricately
eXed when I think of her is Sam; in Hebrew Sam means
one having heard god’s name.


© 2015 Ringlets  stephaniepope mythopoetry.com 



Friday, June 12, 2015

A BOULDER ON HIS SHOULDER
























ON A HILLSIDE IN THE UNDERWORLD


STARTING OVER
SISYPHUS LABORS
STILL

©2015 UNENDING STEPHANIEPOPE MYTHOPOETRY.COM
In SIX WORDS or fewer, write a story about starting over. #6words #writeprompt @Kelsye  ____________________
notes

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

MAGNETIC MIDNIGHT

Photo art ©2015  stephaniepope mythopoetry.com

FOAL WEATHER
      For Bruce Pennycook

Thus, in life, the most brilliant things are always next to the mass of shadows . . .
                                                                   -Charles-Joseph Natoire


He puffed his cheeks and roared
many hats left heads and soared
testing limits; collected them, oh
yes, he did; collected them
and hid


Then collected he a gal named Gale
loved her for her girlish wail
never ever would she fail
prevailing winds strive to prevail
she did


Serpent-footed, iced and aged
perverbial
 rattler, everywhere caged
everywhere frozen yet enraged―
Oh, Boreas! Stride winged & staged
amid



©2015 The Purple-Winged God stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
#lqw rattling proverbial cages everywhere
prevailing wind, many hats, testing limits

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notes

1.  Hesiod, Theogony 869 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) 
"And from Typhoeus  come boisterous Storm-Winds (Anemoi) which blow damply, except Notos (South) and Boreas (North) and clear Zephyros (West). These are a god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow fitfully upon the seas."

(It is here seasonal winds are clearly distinguished from storm winds)

2.  
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 19. 1 
"[Amongst the scenes depicted on the chest of Kypselos dedicated at Olympia :] Boreas, who has carried off Oreithyia; instead of feet he has serpents’ tails."

3. The Aurora of Boreas or Aurora Borealis, a god-sent kind and blessing to mankind is also called "magnetic midnight">

4. For the tale of Boreas and Orithyia see Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VI pp. 675-721








Saturday, June 6, 2015

THE PEACE OF HOMER
































BY ATHENA'S COMMAND


boy no more, "Go!"
"Find him!"


©2015 Telemachus   stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
In SIX WORDS or fewer, write a story about leaving home.
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#mpy #twolines       


NOTES

Spiritual growth in Homer is related to the inheritance of a certain hardship brought to bear on families because of war.  The spiritual quest is a journey to the father, the one missing. “Go! Find him.”

Friday, June 5, 2015

#Riting Myth; Mythic Writing
























Hunting and Gathering
Seeking the Shards of Our Patterned Plot


A WRITER'S RETREAT
WITH DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
AUGUST 28-30, 2015


Every couple years I go after a writer's workshop or gathering around explorations into poetics, depth perspectives or something related to my discipline as a cultural mythologer. This year's event brings together my interest in all three. This year's event is a writing retreat with Professor (and poet) Dennis Patrick Slattery held this August in Santa Barbara and sponsored by PacificA Graduate Institute (henceforth, PGI).

The last time a summer writer's retreat in riting myth, mythic writing was offered through PGI was 2010. You might remember way back then my blogging around that event which I attend. I enjoyed my experience so much I may try to clear my jam-packed summer schedule to participate again.

But, right now, I'd like to give those of you who like reading my blogs an early heads up so that those of you who live in proximity to Santa Barbara and/or have always wanted to participate in a mythic writing writer's experience and are very much interested in attending, might get the jump on the sign-up for this writing retreat. If you think you are interested in attending the August gathering,  you will find everything you need to know here.

Sign up as early as you are able because the class size is limited to keep this riting myth, mythic writing experience a warm and intimate learning environment. Hey, maybe I'll see you there!