WHAT REALLY HAPPENED #2lines #6Words #writeprompt #amwriting #blog #poetry #mpy #mythopoetics #OHJ #vss

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LAST NIGHT IN THE SEEING POOL

Peeking through fairies
seeing through magic


©2015 Expect Magic stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
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notes


In SIX WORDS, or fewer, write a story about what really happened.

ODDLY hGEEKY JOURNEY! #amwriting #poetry #limerick #mythopoetics

ALONG THE SOUTHWEST TRAIL

crested the saguaro looks regal
a comic attraction for eagle
arms held in the air
but immunity rare
along borders where it looks illegal

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#OHJ FEBRUARY DAILY WORDS

IN THE GARDEN OF FEBRUARY

THERE ARE CARDINAL TREES
HEART-FELT & RED LUSCIOUS
WITH ELBOW ROOM

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HEART FELT :: FELT HEART

MY VALENTINE

romantic sot
besotted felt
with cheer


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GAS CHAOS & SNOWMEN

UNPOWERS & STRANGE ATTRACTORS

                           ~for Ric

snow on fire cleave the tongue
gas, fruit hanging in the
five-fold vegetal soul

the animal spirit locally unstable
a touch of coal to its lip
a taste of shit in the vowel
of its throat, eternal lovers

drawn in to draw out whole
the story rising in
primeval emptiness unsensed

& it works upon our eyes undoing
& we SEEd again in the nothing
that is not there nothing that is


©2015 Honeymoon Grammar stephaniepope
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notes

1. The etymology of gas and chaos

gas (n.) 1650s, from Dutch gas, probably from Greek khaos "empty space" (see chaos). The sound of Dutch "g" is roughly equivalent to that of Greek "kh." First used by Flemish chemist J.B. van Helmont (1577-1644), probably influenced by Paracelsus, who used khaos in an occult sense of "proper elements of spirits" or "ultra-rarified water," which was van Helmont's definition of gas. Modern scientific sense began 1779, with later specialization to "combustible mix of vapors" (1794, originally coal gas); "anesthetic" (1894, originally nitrous oxide); and "poison gas" (1900). Meaning "intestinal vapors" is from 1882. "The success of this artificial word is unique" [Weekley]. Slang sense of "empty talk" is from 1847; slang meaning "something exciting or excellent" first attested 1953, from earlier hepster slang gasser in the same sense (1944). Gas also meant "fun, a joke" in Anglo-Irish and was used so by Joyce (1914). As short for gasoline, it is American English, first recorded 1905.

chaos (n.) late 14c., "gaping void," from Old French chaos (14c.) or directly from Latin chaos, from Greek khaos "abyss, that which gapes wide open, is vast and empty," from *khnwos, from PIE root *gheu- "to gape, yawn" (cognates: Greek khaino "I yawn," Old English ginian, Old Norse ginnunga-gap; see yawn (v.)). Meaning "utter confusion" (c.1600) is extended from theological use of chaos for "the void at the beginning of creation" in Vulgate version of Genesis (1530s in English). The Greek for "disorder" was tarakhe, however the use of chaos here was rooted in Hesiod ("Theogony"), who describes khaos as the primeval emptiness of the Universe, begetter of Erebus and Nyx ("Night"), and in Ovid ("Metamorphoses"), who opposes Khaos to Kosmos, "the ordered Universe." Meaning "orderless confusion" in human affairs is from c.1600. Chaos theory in the modern mathematical sense is attested from c.1977.


2. For snowmen see Wallace Stevens, The Snowman

3.  For the central image of the first three lines see the  January 20^th 2015 poem, Mechanical Bulls by Richard Lance Scow Williams

photographs of a cactus
fruits of orange & yellow
taken with a cellphone
the ice on the ground
she sews wool pants
pieced from ones
bought at Goodwill
we watch McCabe &
Mrs. Miller a perfect movie
said Roger Ebert—saddest movie
he ever saw—Leonard Cohen music
she had never seen it—i dreamed a metal

buckle was lodged above my pubic bone as if it were a skull of a bull the shape of a woman’s
reproductive organs—the ovaries fallopian tubes & uterus a history of bulls—secrets of death & birth how Goethe thought five-pointed stars were the preferred shape all of nature there are no sheriffs in this new town a church no one attends is burning fire orange & yellow strips of air pay attention to your violence the machine on the ice mechanics of time Einstein & trains smoke of flesh lugubrious songs of gamblers & whores—i want to see snow in bloom heroes must be fed to time her eyes upon the dimming light her head upon his shoulder life cradles sorrow in a bed of joy the chorus watching the credits roll

© 2015 Richard Lance Scow Williams January 20 mechanical bulls

MAGGIE CAMPBELL BLUES

SHE COLORS MY HOODOO

Umm, who does ya know comin' down the road?
Well, it look like Maggie, little bit. But she walks too slow

                 ~ Tommy Johnson, Maggie Campbell Blues

Perforce it be true, Maggie
a fork in the road
corn meal salt, dear
lightens the load

Followed your shade here
it brought me this skill
tricks in the road, dear
I'm learnin' still

Perforce it be true, dear
it's given untold
nearer that rider
turnin' it gold

Perforce it be true, Maggie
fork in the road
layin' my salt, dear
lightens the load

©2015 Crossroad Spirit stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
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notes

1. The Lwa imprinted in the crossroad is that to Soba on behalf well-being/health &/wealth
2. For more regarding hoodoo magic and the crossroad spirit see http://www.luckymojo.com/crossroads.html
3. Maggie Campbell Blues written and sung by Tommy Johnson Songwriters: TOMMY JOHNSON, RORY BLOCKMaggie Campbell Blues lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC GROUP, INC 

4. Song Lyrics

Cryin', who did you know
Comin' down the road?
Comin' down the road
Umm, who does ya know
Comin' down the road?
Well, it look like Maggie, little bit
But she walks too, slow

Now, the sun is gonna shine
My back door ov'are the trees
My light due somedays
Ooo-ooo
Come your turn and
My light due someday
And the wind gon' change all
Blow my blues away

Now, cc rider
See what you done, done
See what you done, done
Umm-mmm
Cc rider
See what you done, done
You done made me love you
Now you're through
Tryin'-a throw me down

Well, I'm gon' away, now
Won't be back 'till fall
Won't be back 'till fall
Well, I'm gon' away, now
Won't be back 'till fall
'Till I meet my good gal faror
Won't be back a'tol

Now, who that yonder
Comin' down the road?
Comin' down the road?
Umm-mmm
Who's that yonder
Comin' down the road?
Does it look like Maggie, a little bit
But she walks too, slow.

Umm-mm, goin' baby
Won't be back' till fall
Won't be back' till fall
I'm goin' away, long
I'll be back in fall
Well, I might meet my new gal
But I, I won't be back a'tol.

APPROACHING DIVINE NATURE

Selu at Qualla Boundary, in NC (Eastern Band Cherokee)
photo credit: public sculpture, Waymark also, more views

IN MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES

original being is a pluck spirit
rubbed & ground to grit
no spirit land held in demesne

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notes

1. For land held in trust see wiki link above on the public lands at Qualla Boundary.
2. For notions of how to get around white mythology and mythic dominants see the blog post at Urocyon's Meanderings, "Selu", March 23, 2010 which provides at least three good sources on examining layers of appropriation when approaching cross cultural boundaries.
3. See Meloukhia's 'What Is 'splainin'? And Why should I Care?
4. See Peggy McIntosh "White Privelege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack". Furthermore, by extension,  how does focusing on racism as a primarily "black" issue mask the plight of indigenous peoples?
5. A little language, a little history, a little lifestyle.

SEMELE-STIMULA

Bernard Picart,1731
photo credit: wiki

IN REMARKABLE DEATH

None can look upon the face of god and live
              ~ Dante, Paradiso, canto twenty-one


In a temerity bequeathed her
you inherit corn spirit.

Let her wisdom precede you―Go!
Find your father.


©2015 Endless Pleasure stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
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notes

1. For depictions of Semele in mythology and in art see Mythography which notes the following:  1.The name, “Semele” is not native to Greek language.  2. Although “there is some controversy about the precise origin of this legendary figure, one thing about Semele is certain - her story….quite popular in Greek myth.” It is a tale of remarkable death.
2. For Semele/Stimula see http://www.mythologydictionary.com/semele-mythology.html  for a scant synopsis of the myth. See also Ovid, “Fasti” trans. Anne Wiseman p. 118 for the ‘stimulae’ (Stimula) version of the myth.
3. Dante uses the myth to warn against temerity when approaching the sacred. See notes for canto twenty-one p 459 of Anthony Esolen’s “Paradise” translation. But also, Dante understands one must approach.
4. To experience the historical soul of indigenous peoples now telling their own narratives about a time of great upheaval that causes the archetypal activism of this feminine principle in the form of images of Selu, the corn maiden or first woman/mother of Cherokee polis to erupt in the visions and dreams of  19thC Cherokee people, visit http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/564

5. Handel’s “Semele”

WINDSWEPT STYLES

THE NORTH WIND

god haunts this predilection
drawn into the shape of love
minus lover

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1. PURPLE-WINGED, THE NORTH WIND GOD, BOREAS WAS ALSO CALLED THE GOD OF WINTER WHO OFTEN APPEARS  “as a gust-blowing head with bloated cheeks up among clouds... frequently found in old maps.”
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemosBoreas.html

2. BOREAS AT ATHENS  http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3294095?sid=21105056413781&uid=4&uid=3739552&uid=2&uid=3739256


3. JANNSON WIND ROSE, MAP OF THE WINDS
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1650_Jansson_Wind_Rose,_Anemographic_Chart,_or_Map_of_the_Winds_-_Geographicus_-_Anemographica-jannson-1650.jpg

AND BIRDS SING

LOCAL VOCAL

pastel dawn in thin light
lyrebird darts from under
thick & woody cover
& hummers hover


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A FRACTURED TALE

RAPUNZEL THREW THINGS

No plus for her prince as he drew near
So high held that she couldn't hear
Temporize m'lady with beautiful hair
Rapunzel throw down your underwear


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notes


1. The name, Rapunzel means rampion.

Rampion   A leafy plant in the same group as spinach and lettuce, rampion is an autogamous plant. If it is not fertilized with the help of insects, it can split a column within the plant to fertilize itself. The split column will "curl like braids or coils on a maiden's head, and this will bring the female stigmatic tissue into contact with the male pollen on the exterior surface of the column" (Thompson 1989).

2. What Rapunzel’s mother wanted was forbidden food. What Rapunzel wanted, so high up in a tower with no contact to the outside world was worldly experience; she wanted to fall like her mother into the world; what Rapunzel wanted was to become, become Rapunzel, become “fleshed”.

3.  Considering the archetypal angel, the angel of person, the pattern in this tale seems similar to the tale of Demeter & Persephone. Persephone distinguishes herself from her mother; her consciousness is not the grain goddess. Her pattern reflects a life which cannot be snuffed out. After her ordeal in Hades, she claims authority moving between two realms, a chthonic dimension within a human, earthy one, vegetal soul and animal spirit. Both.  And, significantly, such self-resonance is something else.  Suppose this is that to which the term “feminine principle” applies and that the nature of this principle is perhaps what Jung means when he uses the term, psychoid. See Mark Dotson’s Soul Spelunker http://soulspelunker.com/2015/01/the-psychoid-archetype-2.html . Suppose what happens within rampion soul in the story describes an event in the soul by the soul for its own sake.

4.  See Annotations For Rapunzel, Sur La Lune http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/notes.html for foot note one and four.

Some scholars believe Maiden in the Tower stories have their roots in the story of Saint Barbara. Saint Barbara was locked in a tower by her father when she disobeys him and refuses marriage offers from eligible suitors. You can read more about Barbara on the following webpage: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintb01.htm

5. For a modern Maiden in the Tower story see Richard Lance Williams, “Woman In The Tower” http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Tower-Stories-Wounded-Child/dp/0981744354

6. The line “Rapunzel throw down your underwear” is an adaptation from a version of the story,  “Falling For Rapunzel” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fXDFwjkv0 

7.  Original Fractured Fairy Tale of Rapunzel 

THE HOTOT RABBIT

WITH NO EVIL EYE

Tot’s eye of fancy
in a paroxysm of play
fixed upon me 

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notes

HOTOT  is pronounced hoe-toe.

1. For a list of one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-eyed_creatures_in_mythology_and_fiction

2. Regarding hotot dwarf rabbits see
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/critters/rabbits/DwarfHototRabbit.php

KRONOS AND THE ENT

PHOTO CREDIT: © 2008 ENT

IN THE BEGINNING

time did not stand still


it scrambled
down & back & bent
with efficacy my tree


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notes


1. That the presences of “who one is”, are already with one in potential at birth.

2. That what makes me up, I didn’t make [up].

3. That what I did not make up is using my consciousness  to grasp consciousness in real essences of persons within the actuality of my person.  And what I discern in actuality is, in its congeniality, [congeniality in the sense of Jacque Maritain’s connaturality a conceptual union by means of "inner bents and propensities of [one’s] own being."  [see chapter four, “Poetic Intuition” in John W. Hanke, ‘Maritain’s Ontology of A Work Of Art, Springer e-book ] a description like  Henri Corbin’s angel, an event in the soul by the soul for its own sake.

4. That to discern my person in the form of its celestial person, my "angel",  my own person must participate in creation creatively. 

see also

Jennifer Selig and her article on archetypal creators
http://blog.pacifica.edu/pound-your-chest-everyone-part-ii-creator-archetype?utm_campaign=DJA&utm_content=10636625&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter 

THAT TWIN THING : Beautiful Appearances In The World Of Dreams

THE MASTERSINGER SINGS ESTATIC SUNSHINE

All poetic art and poeticizing is nothing but interpreting true dreams.
                                   ~Hans Sachs, Die Meistersinger

Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate/abandon all hope, you who enter here
                                   ~Dante, Canto III, line 9

A certain sadness, sunshine
whose aesthetic world intoxicated, dreams
night language sunshine shed.

Intoxication thus benighted
ecstatic is the head
struck by Apollon.

©2014 Delighted Anatomy stephanie pope mythopoetry.com
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notes

The beautiful appearance of the world of dreams, in whose creation each man is a complete artist, is the condition of all plastic art, indeed, as we shall see, an important half of poetry. We enjoy the form with an immediate understanding, all shapes speak to us, nothing is indifferent and unnecessary.

For all the very intense life of these dream realities, we nevertheless have the thoroughly disagreeable sense of their illusory quality. At least that is my experience. For their frequency, even normality, I can point to many witnesses and the utterances of poets. Even the philosophical man has the presentiment that this reality in which we live and have our being is an illusion, that under it lies hidden a second quite different reality. And Schopenhauer specifically designates as the trademark of philosophical talent the ability to recognize at certain times that human beings and all things are mere phantoms or dream pictures.

Now, just as the philosopher behaves in relation to the reality of existence, so the artistically excitable man behaves in relation to the reality of dreams. He looks at them precisely and with pleasure, for from these pictures he fashions his interpretation of life; from these events he rehearses his life. This is not merely a case of agreeable and friendly images which he experiences with a complete understanding. They also include what is serious, cloudy, sad, dark, sudden scruples, teasing accidents, nervous expectations, in short, the entire “divine comedy” of life, including the Inferno — all this moves past him, not just like a shadow play, for he lives and suffers in the midst of these scenes, yet not without that fleeting sensation of illusion. And perhaps several people remember, like me, amid the dangers and terrors of a dream, successfully cheering themselves up by shouting: “It is a dream! I want to dream it some more!” I have also heard accounts of some people who had the ability to set out the causal connection of one and the same dream over three or more consecutive nights. These facts are clear evidence showing that our innermost beings, the secret underground in all of us, experiences its dreams with deep enjoyment, as a delightful necessity.

~ Frederick Nietzsche, The Birth Of Tragedy (1871), Ian Johnston translator
excerpt taken from section 1-14
see http://denisdutton.com/nietzsche.htm

APOLLO AND RAVEN SOUL

IN THY SOUL, RAVEN

“Such then is the condition of us mortals: to these and to like vicissitude of fortune are we born; so much so, that we cannot be sure of anything, no, not even that a person is dead…the soul of Aristeas was seen to fly out of his mouth, under the form of a raven.” Pliny The Elder, Ch 53, “Persons Who Have Come To Live Again”, pp. 210-11

Traversing sacred space
near the beginning
near the end
sepulcher empty

a battle and a throne―
in medial space soul wanders!
your raven spirit, Koronis
oracles unfaithful parentage.

In a nymph of healing forces
where water flows everlasting
life not drowned, still glows, for knowing love
and loving knowing give birth differently.

Given in birth differently, thy soul, raven
ash heap near the beginning, red and hairy
near the end, oh, spring up, spring up
sepulcher empty

©2014 Spring Up, Spring Up A Bastard Sun stephanie pope mythopoetry.com
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WHATNOTTERY

L.M. Whatley, Jr. and the Whatnots

"Dreams That Flow"

And, No One Knows

whatnottery for pottery
whatnot shelves

dreams that flow in curio
records a band of selves

itself alone to fill a shelf
of whatnot shelves

©2014 stephaniepope mythopoetry.com#OHJ MAY, 2014 #WHATNOT

notes

For more history and a photo of L.M. Whatley & The Whatnots visit Wired For Sound Blog

#ohj ODD HIPPIE JOURNEY

           Bringing In The Sheaves One Sheaf At A Time

“The trip had a dual purpose. One was to turn America on to this particular form of enlightenment, the other was to publicize [Kesey's] new book”   ~ Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“The durability of that myth… [purpose #1] is rooted in American ideals of freedom. Carolyn Garcia, aka Mountain Girl, the prankster who would later marry Jerry Garcia of the rock band the Grateful Dead, says Kesey felt that a film of the bus trip would spread the gospel of freedom through LSD. "They didn't know they were starting the 60s.
 ~Edward Helmore, The Observer

Sixties
Hippie
Electric kool-aid acid test
Astral, baby, but also
Fractious


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notes

1. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test: Tom Wolfe's book about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. One of the great books about how LSD invaded America's consciousness, peaking during the Summer of Love. A tribute to Kesey, the Pranksters (including Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs, Mountain Girl and Wavy Gravy), and the whole psychedelic generation. Good insight into how the torch was passed from the Beats to the hippies. It also contrasts Kesey's "up front", experiential movement versus Timothy Leary's experimental, insightful approach to the LSD trip.

2. For more hippie terms see http://hippy.com/glossary-f.htm#F

3. Edward Helmore. “How Ken Kesey's LSD-fuelled bus trip created the psychedelic 60s”.  The Guardian/The Observer,  Saturday August 6, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/06/lsd-ken-kesey-pranksters-film accessed May 28, 2013.  accessed May 28, 2013.

4. #ohj [odd hippie journey] sheaf, fractious and bonus fun; the letter "N" is banned today May 28, 2013 except in hashtag.

5. The bus, "Further" from the 1960's road trip that begat the '60's.

#ohj (old hippie journey) 1960-1969

                      THE HOUSE THAT ROCK BUILT
                                              1960-1969

The social and political unrest of the 1960s stimulated a resurgence of Mother Goose rhymes as poems of protest. The best known and most censored of these verses are contained in Eve Merriam's The Inner City Mother Goose.                    

This is the house that rock built.
This is the song sung if by chance
or extenuating circumstance
here in the house that rock built.

This is the rhyme sung in protest
there in the song sung if by chance
or extenuating circumstance
here in the house that rock built.

These are the foibles sung if by chance
or extenuating circumstance there in
the rhyme that turned to protest
here in the house that rock built.

This is the doo wop Mother Goose
caught in the rhyme that turned to protest
low in the song sung if by chance
or extenuating circumstance
here in the house that rock built.

“The House That Rock Built, 1960-1969” stephanie pope
©2013 mythopoetry.com

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notes

1. The Demensions, Nursery Rhyme Rock, 1960 http://youtu.be/t-cV8hviKI0. accessed May 27, 2013.
2. The House That Jack Built http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/rhymes/tihj/.  accessed May 27, 2013.
3. Social and political uses of Mother Goose http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/socialpolitical/default.aspx.
accessed May 27, 2013.
4. For a short history of rock between 1960-69 see http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/entertainment/rock-music-the-late-1960s-early-70s-rock-golden-age.html.

#ohj OLD HIPPIE JUJU

                          1967 SUMMER OF LOVE

"In the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is driven by the Grateful Dead"
~quote from the original cover design of the 1967 album

The land is dark.
The ship of the sun
driven by the grateful dead,
driven far from the addled winds of war
driven far from the rising nebula of nam
lead the grateful who really are grateful
and summer changes.


Hipsters of haight flower
in the haight of summer. And in the heat
in the haight lives a beat
that nobody need approve.
Down low is the flowering
where the beat goes on―and the beat

goes on.

“1967: Old Hippie Juju”  stephaniepope ©2013 mythopoetry.com


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notes

from San Fanscisco Montery Pop Music festival and the first album of the Grateful Dead, "Viola Lee Blues"

#OHJ HIPPIE MINDSET

"PAWPRINTS"

#OHJ (occupy hippie jargon):
to do this think communis1
aurea mediocritas2 and Horace;
think of the medium at work
in the mode and the mode, poetic.

Psyche-making occupies itself
and this is the way at work
in cosmos; the middle way at work
is a sacred economy that works
for everybody.

Pawprints stephanie pope
©2013 mythopoetry.com

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[1] For an understanding of communis, what is “held in common” in the root see Done With Mirrors, “Carnival of the Etymologies”, Thursday, December 29, 2005. http://vernondent.blogspot.com/2005/12/carnival-of-etymologies_29.html  accessed May 25, 2013.

[2] Aurea Mediocritas, Horace Odes 2.10, translates “golden mean”. See  http://thecampvs.com/2007/04/04/aurea-mediocritas-and-horace-odes-2101-8/  accessed May 25, 2013.