Blogging U – Writing Poetry 201 – Found Poem, Landscape, Enumeratio

February 28, 2015February 28, 2015 lightwalker1 Inspiration, Just me and some words, POETRY Blogging U 201 - Writing Poetry, Inspiration, Poems, Poetry, The Commons, The Daily Post

Blogging 201 – Writing -FOUND POEM, LANDSCAPE, ENUMERATIO

Words and phrases taken from “The Rough Guide to Thailand” written and researched by Paul Gray and Lucy Ridout

Published by Rough Guides

THAILAND – SIAM

Land of 100,000 smiles

Resplendent traditions

Modern Opulence

Monarchy of stability

Unifying Theravada Buddhists

Mon, Thai, Hill Peoples

Chinese, Immigrants, Foreigners and travelling Tourists

Well watered world

Biggest falls

City of Mists

Pass of Three Pagodas

Roof of Thailand

Cloud Capped Granite Escarpment

Limestone hills

Temples carved in caves

Reclining, Standing, Sitting Buddha emerald, gold and Jade

Lush rice fields

Patchwork paddies

Rhododendrons, sphagnum moss

Orchids and sugar cane

Beans and tobacco

Folk Dance, Thai boxing

Festivals of Water, Candles, Firework rockets

Snorkel, Raft, Dive and Trek

Thailand under your skin

Cheryle – February 2015

7th Assignment – Blogging 201 – Writing Poetry Prose Poem, Fingers, Assonance

February 24, 2015February 24, 2015 lightwalker1 Blogging 201, POETRY, Writing 201 Blogging U 201 - Writing Poetry, Energy work, Healing, Poetry, The Commons, The Daily Post

7^th Assignment – Blogging 201 – Writing Poetry Prose Poem, Fingers, Assonance

REFLEXOLOGY FIRE FINGERS

Can you feel it? Energy, surging through my fingers? Warmth pulsating from their tips? Tentatively I lift the foot, fit my fingers to its’ shape. Gently slip, past the Achilles tendon beyond the cuneiform bones down to the tips of the toes. Wherever my fingers slid, a distinct imprint of heat follows.

Cradle the foot. Let my fingers firmly press and twist the reflex points of the spine from the heel to the joint at the root of the big toe. Impress the Pineal, the Hypothalamus and the Pituitary. Release the feel good chemicals that give you an inner smile. Manipulate the brain, sinuses’, ears and eyes. Pop the crystals built up in the shoulders and breast. Flush the lymph, lungs and the liver. Eliminate toxins with a slight circular motion. Purge the sludge sitting dormant in the stomach, kidneys, and intestines, all points of collection. Dig deep into the hip, tail bone, the cervix and sciatic nerve. Reduce the effects of gravity from the constraint of shoes tied tightly leaving no room for fluid movement.

Finish and invigorate the whole foot with a touch of intense pleasure. Squish and squeeze the skin, muscles and bone to move the languishing blood up. Up and out of the dark blue veins into the hearts cleaning pump, pump-pump, pump. Dirty blood returns to the red arteries fresh and nourished.

Can you feel it? The pulse of life flowing freely from heel to toe? Walk on feet made of soft pillowy clouds and avoid caffeine.

Cheryle Feb 24, 2015

Photo: Copyright: by Cheryle

6th Assignment – Blogging 201 – Writing Poetry Ballad – Heroine, Anaphora/Epistrophe

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6th Assignment – Blogging 201 – Writing Poetry Ballad – Heroine, Anaphora

Day 6 and I am up to date with my assignments. Yeah! I completed my Ballad about a Heroine using the poetic device Anaphora.

This is my imagining of what a young Priestess would say about her Goddess upon ordination. It is no way historically accurate or even a slice of history. It is just me and some words.

Ballad – Heroine, Anaphora

A Ballad for the Goddess