Jonathan ROBIN• Show poetry

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LIFE : A finite succession of infinite opportunities

 

POETRY : Open sharing of individual ability to channel creative soul-song AWAY from the ego

 

NOISE : A signal the individual is unaware [s]he COULD decipher

 

'At qui legitimum cupiet fecisse poema,cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti.' Horace Epistles ii 109

 

The man who would leave behind him a poem, true to the laws of art, when he takes his tables to write will take also the spirit of an honest judge. Horace Epistles ii 109

 

'Ceux qui savent me devinent, et pour ceux qui ne peuvent ou qui ne veulent pas comprendre, j'amoncellerais sans fruit les explications.' Charles Beaudelaire - Preface Les Fleurs du Mal

 

 

"If your work of art is good, if it is true, it will find its echo"
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." Gustave Flaubert 1821_1880

"Il faut effacer le reflet de la personnalité pour que l'inspiration bondisse à tout jamais du miroir. Laissez les influences jouer librement, inventez ce qui a déjà été inventé, ce qui est hors de doute, ce qui est incroyable, donnez à la spontanéité sa valeur pure. Soyez celui à qui l'on parle et qui est entendu. Une seule vision, variée à l'infini. Le poète est celui qui inspire bien plus que celui qui est inspiré. Paul Eluard 1895_1952 Ralentir travaux, 1930

 

The poet's personality should evaporate, empowering inspiration's rebound from life's mirror ad aeternam.  Give diverse influences free reign, invent that which has already been invented, which is as much certitude as incredibility, while according spontaneity peerless and pure priority.  Be someone to whom one speaks and who is heard.  One unique overview perspective, with infinite variations on a theme. The poet should inspire  significantly more than being inspired (trans. JR) http://lapoesiequejaime.net/peluard.htm

 

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.  

 

Visualisation of music

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"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution." Igor Stravinsky  

 

"'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill

Appear in writing or in judging ill;

But of the two less dangerous is th'offence

To tire our patience than mislead our sense:

Some few in that, but numbers err in this;

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

A fool might once himself alone expose;

Now one in verse makes many more in prose."

Alexander Pope : An Essay on Criticism 1709

 

MISSION : Emission fission without contrition, decision without rendition, cognition without precondition, recognition without submission. Transition within tradition leading from, through and to precognition.

 

Through twenty-six pieces of lead

to peace will new world be led

 

after William Caxton 's motto :

With twenty-six soldiers of lead

I will conquer the world.  

 

Managing >1500 poems on AP is complicated. For verse archive, excluding polyacrostics http://www.poemhunter.com/jonathan-robin/

 

 

Internet Governance Profile http://www.icdri.org/JR.htm/

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My Lists

• Acrostics
• Alliteration & Palindromes
• Alphabetical Order
• Anu anua22a Backgrounds and Pictures
• Brahma & Rubaiyat
• Gold and Silver Trophies
• Haiku & Senryu
• Humor
• Knapsack
• Love and Affection
• Nature
• Parody & Pastiches
• Philosophy of and for Life
• Polycrostics Palimpsests and Poetical Experiments
• Society
• Sonnets
• Sonnet Cycle - Sang to ma Maude C
• Time and Cause & Effect
• Translations
• Vers Libres
• Writing and Poetics

Note : Sharing and Blocking

>700 flickr image favorites may be found at http://flickr.com/photos/25641278@N02/favorites/

Anu's Media Pics for Backgrounds

Sumptuous ... Request prior permission

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DKN on All Poetry animations and Backgrounds

http://allpoetry.com/list/35093-Animations 

http://allpoetry.com/list/33073-Bodacious-Backgrounds

 

AP being an interactive site, those lacking elementary courtesy in failing to comment on featured poems are systematically blocked. Unblocked on request to jonathanrobin@yahoo.com

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RECOMMENDED READING - Enjoy !  

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Alpha Alliterations and Palindromes including, inter alia

http://allpoetry.com/list/36822-Alpha-Alliterations---Palindromes

 

An Alliterative Amorous Answer  www.allpoetry.com/poem/1133455

Another                                   www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593200

Key Change                             www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593438

Musical Anagram Riddle             www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593746  

P.e.a.c.e. & ALOHA                    www.allpoetry.com/poem/2527664

Sylvia and Sylvie                       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2492593

Superlative Story                       www.allpoetry.com/poem/1145723

Serve Verse - Anagram Acrostic   www.allpoetry.com/poem/1170642
Seasonable Roll Reversals        www.allpoetry.com/poem/2557200  

Time Palindrome and Acrostic     www.allpoetry.com/poem/2438069

We Take no Note of Time           www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593184  

Writers' Real Mirror Reflection Reel www.allpoetry.com/poem/2526578

 

 

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BRAHMA and RUBAIYAT

 

 

see Edward Fitzgerald

http://www.arabiannights.org/rubaiyat/index2.html

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Would you that spangle of Existence spend
About THE SECRET - quick about it, Friend !
A Hair perhaps divides the False from True -
And upon what, prithee, may life depend ?

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A Hair perhaps divides the False and True;
Yes; and a single Alif were the clue -
Could you but find it - to the Treasure-house,

And peradventure to THE MASTER too.

 

Brahma Revisited Swinburne, Emerson, Bailey, Lang et al http://allpoetry.com/poem/1128998

Rubaiyat of Evolution www.allpoetry.com/poem/4569905

Rubaiyat of a Robin   www.allpoetry.com/poem/2390553
Rubaiyat of Invention & Innovation www.allpoetry.com/poem/1124264

Rubaiyat of Romance www.allpoetry.com/poem/2562616  

Rubaiyat of Time       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2535814  

What is real to roundabout reel www.allpoetry.com/poem/2524910

 

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PARODIES  www.allpoetry.com/list/36820-parodies   including,

Parody                                   www.allpoetry.com/poem/2558456

Parody Mosaic - Summer's Day www.allpoetry.com/poem/2595760

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iandrake/2074735842/

A Parody Exchange between Star Sperm & SupernOVA

A Letter of Advice - W M PRAED   www.allpoetry.com/poem/1176548

A Letter to AP - W.M. PRAED       http://allpoetry.com/poem/1179809

A Matching Snatch Swinburne,     www.allpoetry.com/poem/2523710

A Writers’ Guild Guide Kipling      www.allpoetry.com/poem/3639202

Alcuin                                       www.allpoetry.com/poem/4183059

Artificial Beauty - COWPER          www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589672

APing Spike - Spike MILLIGAN     www.allpoetry.com/poem/2539888  

Bees - Joyce Kilmer - Trees          www.allpoetry.com/poem/3285488   

Crow's Mushroom - Ted HUGHES   www.allpoetry.com/poem/2620846  

Downhill  Cristina Rossetti Uphill   www.allpoetry.com/poem/1196298

Eggs - Joyce Kilmer - Trees          www.allpoetry.com/poem/3285414 

Epitaph William Carlos Williams    www.allpoetry.com/poem/4597201

Freedom in Peril Kipling, Olga Katzin www.allpoetry.com/poem/1196298

Gilt Written - Shel Silverstein        www.allpoetry.com/poem/4307173/ 

Grass Roots' Glass - Witter Bynner www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593406

Mariage à la Modem Shakespeare  www.allpoetry.com/poem/1190152   

Men are Unwise and Curiously Planned www.allpoetry.com/poem/4600433

Mother Tongue Wrung-Exeter Book www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592484

Orange Rose John Boyle O'Reilly    www.allpoetry.com/poem/2598786 

Response Able Elegy Tichborne,Kydwww.allpoetry.com/poem/2526370

Samarkand - James Elroy Flecker   www.allpoetry.com/poem/4588641

Shakespeare Complete Sonnets      www.allpoetry.com/poem/3372341

Standing out for the Outstanding - Come Live with Me and Be My Love Marlow, Donne, Herrick www.allpoetry.com/poem/1167381

Tarantella with an Umbrella-Belloc http://allpoetry.com/poem/2518406

Tarantella for Cinderella - Belloc    www.allpoetry.com/poem/2518386
Piles of Grease - Lord Byron         www.allpoetry.com/poem/3620786

The Pillage Hangman - Longfellow www.allpoetry.com/poem/4213527

Tree's Frogs - Joyce Kilmer Trees  www.allpoetry.com/poem/2533928

Tyger's Rumour - Robert Burns     www.allpoetry.com/poem/3600900

When I was oxygenic  P.Barrington www.allpoetry.com/poem/2512430

Why Will Girls Refuse C.D.Pulling www.allpoetry.com/poem/2451479

Words Woven - Mary Beuley       www.allpoetry.com/poem/4473765

You are Old Mother Jillian: Carroll www.allpoetry.com/poem/3192418

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ALPHABETICAL ORDER MISCELLANEOUS VERSE

 

 

 

including, inter alia

 

A Dog's Life                 www.allpoetry.com/poem/1127604
A Rose Arose               www.allpoetry.com/poem/3136484/

After the Funeral          www.allpoetry.com/poem/1132579 

An Open Gate              www.allpoetry.com/poem/1195229
Another                       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593200

Beauty and the Beast            www.allpoetry.com/poem/2412551    

Between Dark Past & Future Flight www.allpoetry.com/poem/1139518 

Chimp Imp Pressions    www.allpoetry.com/poem/2616442

Choice Challenge          www.allpoetry.com/poem/2496894

Caravan                       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2613662

Cause and Effect           www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593268

Curtains Close               www.llpoetry.com/poem/4250011 

Dawn to Dusk               www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593296

DECIDE against Stereotypes  www.allpoetry.com/poem/3140404  

Depression's Impressions awww.allpoetry.com/poem/4324179 

Die a Log Dialogue         www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589616

Discovery                     www.allpoetry.com/poem/4242257 

Doors of Perception       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593320

Dream Matcher’s Response www.allpoetry.com/poem/4097173

Dreamworks                www.allpoetry.com/poem/2411279

Emaciation                  www.allpoetry.com/poem/3442970  

Eternal Golden Braid     www.allpoetry.com/poem/4096813

Evanescent Sonnet       www.allpoetry.com/poem/3590646  

From Cataract to Enhanced Perceptions www.allpoetry.com/poem/4242347 

From Rana to Rani       www.allpoetry.com/poem/4102985/

Heart and Mind            www.allpoetry.com/poem/3157798

How to Write Poetry & Cut [N]ice www.allpoetry.com/poem/2567589

In the Village              www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589358

Intelligent Design        www.allpoetry.com/poem/1187352
Leaflet                        www.allpoetry.com/poem/2635504  

Light Perceptions          www.allpoetry.com/poem/2579970

Many Roads Await        www.allpoetry.com/poem/4099674 

Millenium Festivities     www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593672

Much Damage has been Done  www.allpoetry.com/poem/ 

Mystery's Mirror Rhyme  www.allpoetry.com/poem/3209070

Night knew no day,       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2283101

One Metre ... Eighty        www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593918  

Periwinkle Blue Pyjamas  www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589386

Phantom Fipple              www.allpoetry.com/poem/2593944

Point Made                    www.allpoetry.com/poem/2531728

Post Modern Culture       www.allpoetry.com/poem/3394145

Prisma                          www.allpoetry.com/poem/4103023

Prose Poem on the Mind's Universe www.allpoetry.com/poem/

Recycling Sounds               www.allpoetry.com/poem/3550002

Shadows                         www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592258

Soul's Scrolled Role Rolls  www.allpoetry.com/poem/4238565

Stranger in Strange Crowd www.allpoetry.com/poem/1132061
Sunset                            www.allpoetry.com/poem/3141724

Synchronicity                   www.allpoetry.com/poem/1168634

The Old Contemptibles      www.allpoetry.com/poem/3232384

Thought Waves                www.allpoetry.com/poem/2425551

Thoughtwave Ode             www.allpoetry.com/poem/3177218

Upwardly Mobile Breasts    www.allpoetry.com/poem/2588034 

Wait Tress Adressed         www.allpoetry.com/poem/2536022

Weeping Willow               www.allpoetry.com/poem/4156611

Welcome Stranger            www.allpoetry.com/poem/4624445

When Light Returns           www.allpoetry.com/poem/4110457

Whirling Wheels of Change  www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592236

Will Anybody Care ?          www.allpoetry.com/poem/1126136

Wing Swing Sing Song      www.allpoetry.com/poem/2479717 

Yarn                               www.allpoetry.com/poem/3125638

 

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LOVE & AFFECTION

A Beam of Light                      www.allpoetry.com/poem/3096082

Bright Eyes Gleam                 www.allpoetry.com/poem/2612582  

Come Dance with Me             www.allpoetry.com/poem/2600058

Draw near, my Dear               www.allpoetry.com/poem/2539482 

Empathy Eliminates Disparity www.allpoetry.com/poem/3587226

Fresh Dimensions                  www.allpoetry.com/poem/4242231 

Game of Life - Add Vice to a Lady www.allpoetry.com/poem/3391536

Heart to Heart though Far Apart www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592940

I have a dream...                   www.allpoetry.com/poem/4144848

Journal                                  www.allpoetry.com/poem/4560301

Keep Troth                            www.allpoetry.com/poem/4

Love                                      www.allpoetry.com/poem/2595718

Magic Unfurled in Stilly Night www.allpoetry.com/poem/4242615 

Not Think on YOU ?                www.allpoetry.com/poem/2515282

One Heart Feels Finger               www.allpoetry.com/poem/2432587   

Providential Piece                 www.allpoetry.com/poem/3285826

Quintessential Bliss               www.allpoetry.com/poem/4303003 

Rubaiyat of Romance             www.allpoetry.com/poem/2562616

Successive Signals                 www.allpoetry.com/poem/3137394

Troubadour à Muse                www.allpoetry.com/poem/4257693

US may YOU/ME replace       www.allpoetry.com/poem/4319973

Voi che sapete                       www.allpoetry.com/poem/4278189

Wa[l]king To Muse Princess     www.allpoetry.com/poem/4122369

X Ray Radioscopie                 www.allpoetry.com/poem/4561843

You I Am                                www.allpoetry.com/poem/4560373

Zusammen                              www.allpoetry.com/poem/3281558

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TRANSLATIONS http://allpoetry.com/list/36830-Translations  

 

including inter alia :

 

C BAUDELAIRE Harmonie du Soir   www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589800

BELLAY Heureux qui comme Ulysse www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589754

Charles CROS - Nocturne                www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592660

DESBORDES-VALMORE Roses de Sa'adi www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592876  

EURIPIDES - Croesus                    www.allpoetry.com/poem/3301124

José Maria de HEREDIA Coral Reef  www.allpoetry.com/poem/2500054

José Maria de HEREDIA Conquerors www.allpoetry.com/poem/4611855

Alphonse LAMARTINE - Le Papillon www.allpoetry.com/poem/3301068

Alfred de MUSSET Impromptu       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2514336

Raymond RADIGUET - Avec la Mort www.allpoetry.com/poem/2591406

Mathurin REGNIER  - Epitaphe      www.allpoetry.com/poem/2591664  

P RONSARD Sonnets pour Hélène  www.allpoetry.com/poem/2591664  

C ROY Bestiaire du Rouge Gorge   www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589698

VERLAINE - Vers Libres               www.allpoetry.com/poem/2589714

VERLAINE Il pleut dans mon coeur www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592070

VERLAINE - Mon Rêve Familier       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2592178

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HAIKU & SENRYU Alpha Order

http://allpoetry.com/list/28246-Haiku-Jonathan-Robin

 

歌 枕 , 枕 詞 , 枕 言 葉 , 掛 詞

 

Haiku after Basho  www.allpoetry.com/poem/3358022

A Beam of Light www.allpoetry.com/poem/3096082

Cocktail Tales www.allpoetry.com/poem/3981659

Define a Straight Line www.allpoetry.com/poem/4165673/

Incandescence www.allpoetry.com/poem/3137250 

Poetical Rules www.allpoetry.com/poem/3337754

Role Reversible Versicles www.allpoetry.com/poem/4198243

 

'A flash of lightning. The sound of drops among the bamboo'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minxlj/369324736/

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POLYACROSTIC PALIMPSESTS

http://allpoetry.com/list/16178-Polycrostics-Palimpsests-2007-and-Alphabetical-Experiments

 

 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/albedo/106879061/sizes/o/

 

 

Polyacrostic palimpsests make no claim to fame as flawless poetic inspiration, yet occupy a unique niche within traditional English verse offering fun examples of channelled diction ... Enjoy !

 

Able Remeasured Sonnet www.allpoetry.com/poem/2489619

Amuse in Key Plan        www.allpoetry.com/poem/2498442  

Care Is Our Dream        www.allpoetry.com/poem/4239749

Ephemeral Palimpsest   www.allpoetry.com/poem/4038013

J to J Jest Gest            www.allpoetry.com/poem/2479961  

Lovely Rare Magic        www.allpoetry.com/poem/2500548

Nowhere or Now Here   www.allpoetry.com/poem/2499992

Stitch Trip Progressions www.allpoetry.com/poem/2485793

Testing Times for Sonnet Rhymes www.allpoetry.com/poem/2481515

Tracings                   www.allpoetry.com/poem/3582340    

Versatile Verse          www.allpoetry.com/poem/2491167

What Will Follow       www.allpoetry.com/poem/2490659

 

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream V i  William Shakespeare