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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

 

"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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DKN animations and Backgrounds

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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  http://allpoetry.com/poem/1133455

Another                            http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593200

Key Change                        http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593438

Musical Anagram Riddle           http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593746  

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

Sylvia and Sylvie                 http://allpoetry.com/poem/2492593

Superlative Story               http://allpoetry.com/poem/1145723

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

Time Palindrome and Acrostic http://allpoetry.com/poem/2438069

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

 

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BRAHMA and RUBAIYAT

 

 

 

 

see Edward Fitzgerald

 

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

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

Rubaiyat of Romance http://allpoetry.com/poem/2562616  

Rubaiyat of Time       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2535814  

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PARODIES  http:// allpoetry.com/list/36820-parodies   including,

Parody  http://allpoetry.com/poem/2558456

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

 

 

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

 

A Parody Exchange between Star Sperm & SupernOVA

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

A Matching Snatch Swinburne,  http://allpoetry.com/poem/2523710

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

Alcuin                                   http://allpoetry.com/poem/4183059

Amazing Grace                       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2635848

Artificial Beauty - COWPER       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2589672     

APing Spike - Spike MILLIGAN    http://allpoetry.com/poem/2539888    

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

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

Eggs - Joyce Kilmer - Trees      http://allpoetry.com/poem/3285414 

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

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

Mariage à la Modem Shakespeare http://allpoetry.com/poem/1190152   

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

Response Able Elegy Tichborne,Kyd http://allpoetry.com/poem/2526370

Shakespeare Complete Sonnets http://allpoetry.com/poem/3372341

Standing out for the Outstanding - Come Live with Me and Be My Love

Marlowe, Donne, Herrick, Raleigh   http://allpoetry.com/poem/1167381

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

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

The Pillage Hangman - Longfellow http://allpoetry.com/poem/2540148

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

You are Old, Mother Jillian - Carroll http://allpoetry.com/poem/3192418

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

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ALPHABETICAL ORDER MISCELLANEOUS VERSE

 

 

 

including, inter alia

 

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

After the Funeral          http://allpoetry.com/poem/1132579 

An Open Gate               http://allpoetry.com/poem/1195229
Another                       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593200

Beauty and the Beast    http://allpoetry.com/poem/2412551  

Between Dark Past and Future http://allpoetry.com/poem/1139518 

Chimp Imp Pressions    http://allpoetry.com/poem/2616442

Choice Challenge          http://allpoetry.com/poem/2496894

Caravan                       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2613662

Cause and Effect           http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593268

Dawn to Dusk               http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593296

DECIDE against Stereotypes  http://allpoetry.com/poem/3140404   

Doors of Perception       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593320

Draw near, my Dear      http://allpoetry.com/poem/2539482

Dream Matcher’s Response http://allpoetry.com/poem/4097173

Dreamworks                http://allpoetry.com/poem/2411279

Emaciation                  http://allpoetry.com/poem/3442970  

Empathy Eliminates Disparity   http://allpoetry.com/poem/3587226

Eternal Golden Braid     http://allpoetry.com/poem/4096813

Evanescent Sonnet       http://allpoetry.com/poem/3590646  

In the Village              http://allpoetry.com/poem/2589358

Intelligent Design        http://allpoetry.com/poem/1187352
Leaflet                        http://allpoetry.com/poem/2635504  

Light Perceptions          http://allpoetry.com/poem/2579970

Many Roads Await        http://allpoetry.com/poem/4099674 

Millenium Festivities     http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593672

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

One Heart Feels Finger    http://allpoetry.com/poem/2432587

One Metre ... Eighty        http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593918  

Periwinkle Blue Pyjamas  http://allpoetry.com/poem/2589386

Phantom Fipple              http://allpoetry.com/poem/2593944

Point Made                    http://allpoetry.com/poem/2531728

Post Modern Culture       http://allpoetry.com/poem/3394145

Prisma                          http://www.allpoetry.com/poem/4103023

Prose Poem on the Mind's Universe http://allpoetry.com/poem/3088198

Providential Piece            http://allpoetry.com/poem/3285826  

Recycling Sounds              http://allpoetry.com/poem/3550002

Shadows                         http://allpoetry.com/poem/2592258

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

Synchronicity                   http://allpoetry.com/poem/1168634

Thought Waves                http://allpoetry.com/poem/2425551

Upwardly Mobile Breasts   http://allpoetry.com/poem/2588034 

Wait Tress Adressed         http://allpoetry.com/poem/2536022

When Light Returns           http://allpoetry.com/poem/4110457

Whirling Wheels of Change  http://allpoetry.com/poem/2592236

Will Anybody Care ?          http://allpoetry.com/poem/1126136

Wing Swing Sing Song      http://allpoetry.com/poem/2479717  

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

 

 

 

 

including inter alia :

 

C BAUDELAIRE Harmonie du Soir http://allpoetry.com/poem/2589800

BELLAY Heureux qui comme Ulysse http://allpoetry.com/poem/2589754

Charles CROS - Nocturne     http://allpoetry.com/poem/2592660

DESBORDES-VALMORE - Les Roses de Sa'adi http://allpoetry.com/poem/2592876  

EURIPIDES - Croesus  http://allpoetry.com/poem/3301124

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

Alphonse LAMARTINE - Le Papillon http://allpoetry.com/poem/3301068

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

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

Mathurin REGNIER  - Epitaphe      http://allpoetry.com/poem/2591664  

P RONSARD Sonnets pour Hélène http://allpoetry.com/poem/2591664  

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

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

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

VERLAINE - Mon Rêve Familier       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2592178

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HAIKU & SENRYU Alpha Order

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

 

Role Reversible Versicles - Pro and Con Formity

                                      http://allpoetry.com/poem/4198243

 

 

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

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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      http://allpoetry.com/poem/2489619

Amuse in Key Plan               http://allpoetry.com/poem/2498442  

Ephemeral Palimpsest           http://allpoetry.com/poem/4038013

J to J Jest Gest                    http://allpoetry.com/poem/2479961  

Lovely Rare Magic                http:// allpoetry.com/poem/2500548

Nowhere OR Now Here         http://allpoetry.com/poem/2499992

Stitch Trip Progressions       http://allpoetry.com/poem/2485793

Testing Times for Sonnet Rhymes http://allpoetry.com/poem/2481515

Tracings                             http://allpoetry.com/poem/3582340    

Versatile Verse                    http://allpoetry.com/poem/2491167

What Will Follow                 http://allpoetry.com/poem/2490659

 

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  • Xqzt : Ethos on May 4
    So much of what I have found on your Profile page resonates with me on deepest levels. A treasure trove of jewels for the mind and soul.

    Thank you for introducing me to this site and using my Crystal Whorls fractal as wallpaper.
  • Night Hope : Soulful Scribe... on September 4, 2007

    This is just to say I love my Friend. He's brilliant. Better still, his heart is luminous. Wanda
  • AngelicMistress : Muy agradecida! on July 8, 2007
    Hola:

    Me siento muy agradecida y honrada por la crítica de un poeta de su magnitúd.

    Al leer sus páginas aquí, he podído comprender y entender que és ustéd un hombre de letras, y muy alta sabiduría en lo que literatura se refiere.

    Me dice que es ustéd Francés, yo soy Puertorriqueña, y trato de dár de mí inspiración ál lector sentimiento, el mísmo que siénto yo al escribír la piéza que sea.....

    Grácias por sus commentarios a mi trabájo, le quedo muy agradecída.

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  • maa : farewell ? on February 20, 2007


    J oyful exchange will soon come to an end
    O ver are playfulness, word-games and jokes
    N ever again a sweet poem he’ll send
    A sh turns to ash as impermanence strokes
    T hunder is roaring through dark endless night
    H ail pouring down unto soft, mossy ground
    A sk him, this fearless and mighty white knight
    N ever a real, valid reason is found
    R ole has he played like an actor of class
    O nly a few have discovered his worth
    B lind and uncaring the rest of the mass
    I nner encounter so seldom on earth
    N one does compare to this most cherished friend
    … Hopefully, never this friendship will end …

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