At dVerse Grace is hosting Poetry Form with an invitation to write a Quatern – a sixteen line French form of four quatrains. Each line has eight syllables and cab rhymed or not. There is a refrain which is the first line becoming, in succession, line two, then three then four in the remaining stanzas. For more detail follow the link below:
dVerse Poets – Poetry Form – Quatern
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“Individualism is a formidable lie.” Rene Girard
Not So Nuanced Am I alone on this vast road where others claim exclusive right, the lie that you can't know my way and I couldn't possibly know yours? Is our experience so nuanced? Am I alone on this vast road or do others feel what I feel when treading the painful places? It's true there's not one shade of blue, even grey has a varied hue, am I alone on this vast road, can any one feel as I do? Are we completely lost in self, rejecting all experience? Are we hermetically sealed? Am I alone on this vast road?
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I don’t think you are.❤️
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I’m always glad to be in company, thank you 🙂
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I am OK with being alone, as I find solitude enjoyable.
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Oh yes. Especially in the frenetic seething world state through which we are, it is to be hoped, precipitately passing.
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Everything happens is too suddenly and most of the time things are done without thinking.
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That makes two of us! ☺️
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I have spurts of wanting to be alone then wanting to be in company, but as an extrovert I get energy from being with others.
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When confronted with any either-or proposition I first try the answer, “Both!” I find I have no problem at all applying it here.
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Ah, the non-dual reality as it should be.
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🙏
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I found the answer to the poem’s last line in poetry–and the answer is no.
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Which is good news.
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Indeed it is!
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🙂
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I don’t think you are alone too. And I love that there are various shades of grey. Good question to ask Paul. Wishing you a good weekend.
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Many thanks Grace. Thank you for those wishes too, hoping you had a good one 🙂
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Alone to All one is message of vast Road . Always open to all . love all . very nice post.
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Ressonance – thank you 🙂
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Reblogged this on Wonders of Wandering.
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Thank you so much for the reblog.
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A question many ask (and some should).
Thank goodness for all the many shades and hues.
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Thank you Merril, yes, agree very much.
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You’re welcome, Paul.
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That’s some question, Paul, and one that has been asked throughout history. I love the way you use colour to convey that we the same but different. I hope I’m not hermetically sealed!
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Me too, don’t want to be sealed like that eh? Thank you very much Kim.
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I don’t think you are alone on that vast road – many travel that road of seeking. Yes, the world is full of various hues each beautiful in its own way. A contemplative poem for the day.
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Thank you so much – yes, not alone, and the hues are amazing, thankfully.
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Cheers, Paul. Certainly got me contemplating!
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Well that makes my day worthwhile – thank you indeed.
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Your efforts can get through to the cor at times… such as this one.
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Very kind – thank you Gerald
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Dear Paul
You are not alone.
Enjoy your status. Its the only way to be.
Much💖love
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Loving your response Gillena, thank you 🙂
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Alas, I think we are alone in our own separate cages.
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It sure seems like that somedays,
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These words encourage deep thoughts. A nudge to look within while remembering the similarities we hold to those that surround us.
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It is wonderful when someone gets it, thank you for getting it Astrid.
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Well the comments here certainly sort the glass half full from the glass half empty and in answer to your poetically posed question – I don’t like to think that way and having found my way to the bar for the first time – it seems we are not alone…
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True, we are not alone, and thanks you for responding – appreciated.
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