Open To Interpretation
Cat's Cradle
Words become rounded and worn seashell lore,
Mollusk abandoned, spun end on end
In the wave stirred migrating sandy shore
Surf scalloped beaches' aggregated blend.
Sparrow's aphoristic tweets fall to the
Philosophers' metaphorical mill,
Their bothering legalistic briefs a
Storied grist for hungry gullets to fill.
And Love's sweet nothings' eternal refrain,
Beneath the moon, the stars, a palm tree's sway,
Upends this revolving world's daily gain,
Sings to two handed mimes who once were clay.
Collected labeled pristine seashells rest
In closed dark drawers with the sparrow's nest.
DolphinWords
Notes: there are a lot of Emily Dickinson sites...a lot...and I happened on one that listed the 'ten best poems'...brb...
quote
Emily Dickinson did not leave any poetics or treatise to explain her life’s work, so we can come to her poetry with minds and hearts open, and unearth whatever it is we need to find.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/67591-the-10-best-emily-dickinson-poems.html
unquote
hmmph...in other words, she left no notes...and her poems in essays are often referred to as 'aphoristic'...not knowing what aphoristic is, I looked it up...oh, I have been all this over a week ago...and an aphoristic quote Kahil Gibran has is like one of mine, in so many words...not that I knew mine was an aphorism!...brb...
quote
"Today is now
Borrowed from yesterday
To be lent tomorrow."==The Talking Plank
http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2017/06/otitwo-poems-and-notesl62717.html
unquote
quote
Yesterday is but today's memory,
and tomorrow is today's dream.-- Khalil Gibran
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/khalilgibr163761.html
unquote
and I found the famous aphorism about the fall of a sparrow, after I wrote up an aphorism that went...I can't recall!...it got lost in editing the above, as I made the above poem from a handful of aphorisms I made, the title was one (since changed--see below)..."I could be a Hindu in a moment"...oh, I should have saved them...anyway, the Hindu one came about because the aphorism look up led to the aphorisms in history, notably the ones from India...they took things to the extreme...the Vedas...this I didn't know, the Vedas are apparently aphorisms with commentary...the commentary being called...brb...
quote
Bhashya (Sanskrit: भाष्य) is a "commentary" or "exposition" of any primary or secondary text in ancient or medieval Indian literature.[1] Common in Sanskrit literature, Bhasya is also found in other Indian languages. Bhashya are found in various fields, ranging from the Upanishads to the Sutras of Hindu schools of philosophy, from ancient medicine to music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhashya
unquote
and the aphorisms are called:
quote
Sutra (IAST: sūtra सूत्र) is a Sanskrit word that means "string" or "thread".[1] In Indian literary traditions, it also refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutra
unquote
incidentally, there is something between sutra and bashya...
quote
Shloka (meaning "song", from the root śru, "hear"[1]) is a category of verse line developed from the Vedic Anustubh poetic meter. It is the basis for Indian epic verse, and may be considered the Indian verse form par excellence, occurring, as it does, far more frequently than any other meter in classical Sanskrit poetry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shloka
unquote
in other words: a sonnet's envoy, the last two lines, is an aphorism, a sutra; the sonnet as a whole is a poem, a shloka; and the realm of the scholars, the bashya...I'm not sure how far back this all dates, but it looks like 400BC, with suspicions it all goes back to before the Ice Age...iambic pentameter is the English verse form 'par excellence' ...this, this arrangement, is common all over the world...the memorized oral tradition of the Veda's maybe the most notable...it has been passed down orally, memorized forwards and backwards!, with the same meticulous care the Jewish Torah is carefully hand transcribed one edition to the next...brb...
quote
The real core texts of the religion that exist today are the hymns known as qawls; they have also been orally transmitted during most of their history, but are now being collected with the assent of the community, effectively transforming Yazidism into a scriptural religion.[78] The qawls are full of cryptic allusions and usually need to be accompanied by čirōks or 'stories' that explain their context.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis
unquote
It's of interest I think that the word 'sutra' relates to weaving terms...threads and needles...the whole tradition to warp and weft/woof...if one thinks of a sonnet represented in fabric, one can see the sutra/sutures, the stitches, da dum da dum da dum da dum da dum...at the lines end is a rhyme which turns things back after a fashion...maybe...like warp and woof...oh it's certain...writing didn't begin on paper or papyrus or animal skins...it was on fabric...on/in clothes...along with illustrated vignettes...now all lost like the Greek's encaustic paintings...and lost like the meanings of the Inca's fabrics...the number counting Quipo knots hint that stories in words could be recorded too...brb...
quote
The Rosary (pronunciation: /ˈrəʊz(ə)ri/, Latin: rosarium, in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"[1]), usually in the form of the Dominican Rosary,[2][3] is a form of prayer used especially in the Catholic Church named for the string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary
unquote
Buddhist prayer beads or malas (Sanskrit: mālā "garland"[1]) are a traditional tool used to count the number of times a mantra is recited, breaths while meditating, counting prostrations, or the repetitions of a buddha's name. They are similar to other forms of prayer beads used in various world religions and therefore the term "Buddhist rosary" also appears.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_prayer_beads
unquote
Quipus, also known as khipus or talking knots,[1] were recording devices historically used in a number of cultures and particularly in the region of Andean South America.[2] Similar systems were used by the ancient Chinese and native Hawaiians
Quipos
Chinese knotting
Rugs
Oldest Carpet
quote
Cat's cradle is a series of string figures created between two (or more) people as a game. The name of the entire game, the specific figures, their order, and the names of the figures vary. Versions of this game have been found in indigenous cultures throughout the world—from the polar regions to the Equatorial zones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_cradle
unquote
hmmph...happening on cat's cradle, I just made a major edit!...previous title was "I could be a Hindu in a moment"...and changed "Sings to two mime statues..." to " Sings to two handed mimes..."..."Before ice age"...BIA...I have in mind a Before Ice Age clip art book...or 'kit'...some additions: Cat's Cradles are in it...Ochre Crayons are in it...related to the crayons is the air brush like cave artistries...pigments blown through a hollow reed or some such, or I gather, just pigments blown from one's mouth to make those handprint stencils...comes to mind I've seen like handprints on Native American horses, and teepees..
quote
The red handprint stands for death of an enemy or stained hands from war; used by many different tribes.
http://horsesoftheearth.wikifoundry.com/page/Indain+Horse+Markings
unquote
a remarkable thing is that when the Europeans arrived in North America they arrived in the midst of Stone Age cultures with 'kits', 'clip art books', pre-dating the last Ice Age...they continue...in Australia they continue..
quote
Many researchers have suggested the oldest paintings include depictions of long extinct animals but we can never be absolutely sure of this. Used pieces of ochre, “crayons”, are found in the lowest levels and throughout excavated rock shelter floor deposits in Australia.
http://theconversation.com/40-000-year-old-rock-art-found-in-indonesia-32674
unquote
I thought that charming as I had just used the words 'ochre' and 'crayon' in poem Salem
... ... ...
"Rosy fingered Dawn takes up her crayons"
...
"Red ochre filled reeds we trumpeted through
DolphinWords
Notes: there are a lot of Emily Dickinson sites...a lot...and I happened on one that listed the 'ten best poems'...brb...
quote
Emily Dickinson did not leave any poetics or treatise to explain her life’s work, so we can come to her poetry with minds and hearts open, and unearth whatever it is we need to find.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/67591-the-10-best-emily-dickinson-poems.html
unquote
hmmph...in other words, she left no notes...and her poems in essays are often referred to as 'aphoristic'...not knowing what aphoristic is, I looked it up...oh, I have been all this over a week ago...and an aphoristic quote Kahil Gibran has is like one of mine, in so many words...not that I knew mine was an aphorism!...brb...
quote
"Today is now
Borrowed from yesterday
To be lent tomorrow."==The Talking Plank
http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2017/06/otitwo-poems-and-notesl62717.html
unquote
quote
Yesterday is but today's memory,
and tomorrow is today's dream.-- Khalil Gibran
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/khalilgibr163761.html
unquote
and I found the famous aphorism about the fall of a sparrow, after I wrote up an aphorism that went...I can't recall!...it got lost in editing the above, as I made the above poem from a handful of aphorisms I made, the title was one (since changed--see below)..."I could be a Hindu in a moment"...oh, I should have saved them...anyway, the Hindu one came about because the aphorism look up led to the aphorisms in history, notably the ones from India...they took things to the extreme...the Vedas...this I didn't know, the Vedas are apparently aphorisms with commentary...the commentary being called...brb...
quote
Bhashya (Sanskrit: भाष्य) is a "commentary" or "exposition" of any primary or secondary text in ancient or medieval Indian literature.[1] Common in Sanskrit literature, Bhasya is also found in other Indian languages. Bhashya are found in various fields, ranging from the Upanishads to the Sutras of Hindu schools of philosophy, from ancient medicine to music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhashya
unquote
and the aphorisms are called:
quote
Sutra (IAST: sūtra सूत्र) is a Sanskrit word that means "string" or "thread".[1] In Indian literary traditions, it also refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutra
unquote
incidentally, there is something between sutra and bashya...
quote
Shloka (meaning "song", from the root śru, "hear"[1]) is a category of verse line developed from the Vedic Anustubh poetic meter. It is the basis for Indian epic verse, and may be considered the Indian verse form par excellence, occurring, as it does, far more frequently than any other meter in classical Sanskrit poetry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shloka
unquote
in other words: a sonnet's envoy, the last two lines, is an aphorism, a sutra; the sonnet as a whole is a poem, a shloka; and the realm of the scholars, the bashya...I'm not sure how far back this all dates, but it looks like 400BC, with suspicions it all goes back to before the Ice Age...iambic pentameter is the English verse form 'par excellence' ...this, this arrangement, is common all over the world...the memorized oral tradition of the Veda's maybe the most notable...it has been passed down orally, memorized forwards and backwards!, with the same meticulous care the Jewish Torah is carefully hand transcribed one edition to the next...brb...
quote
The real core texts of the religion that exist today are the hymns known as qawls; they have also been orally transmitted during most of their history, but are now being collected with the assent of the community, effectively transforming Yazidism into a scriptural religion.[78] The qawls are full of cryptic allusions and usually need to be accompanied by čirōks or 'stories' that explain their context.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis
unquote
It's of interest I think that the word 'sutra' relates to weaving terms...threads and needles...the whole tradition to warp and weft/woof...if one thinks of a sonnet represented in fabric, one can see the sutra/sutures, the stitches, da dum da dum da dum da dum da dum...at the lines end is a rhyme which turns things back after a fashion...maybe...like warp and woof...oh it's certain...writing didn't begin on paper or papyrus or animal skins...it was on fabric...on/in clothes...along with illustrated vignettes...now all lost like the Greek's encaustic paintings...and lost like the meanings of the Inca's fabrics...the number counting Quipo knots hint that stories in words could be recorded too...brb...
quote
The Rosary (pronunciation: /ˈrəʊz(ə)ri/, Latin: rosarium, in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"[1]), usually in the form of the Dominican Rosary,[2][3] is a form of prayer used especially in the Catholic Church named for the string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary
unquote
Buddhist prayer beads or malas (Sanskrit: mālā "garland"[1]) are a traditional tool used to count the number of times a mantra is recited, breaths while meditating, counting prostrations, or the repetitions of a buddha's name. They are similar to other forms of prayer beads used in various world religions and therefore the term "Buddhist rosary" also appears.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_prayer_beads
unquote
Quipus, also known as khipus or talking knots,[1] were recording devices historically used in a number of cultures and particularly in the region of Andean South America.[2] Similar systems were used by the ancient Chinese and native Hawaiians
Quipos
Chinese knotting
Rugs
Oldest Carpet
quote
Cat's cradle is a series of string figures created between two (or more) people as a game. The name of the entire game, the specific figures, their order, and the names of the figures vary. Versions of this game have been found in indigenous cultures throughout the world—from the polar regions to the Equatorial zones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_cradle
unquote
hmmph...happening on cat's cradle, I just made a major edit!...previous title was "I could be a Hindu in a moment"...and changed "Sings to two mime statues..." to " Sings to two handed mimes..."..."Before ice age"...BIA...I have in mind a Before Ice Age clip art book...or 'kit'...some additions: Cat's Cradles are in it...Ochre Crayons are in it...related to the crayons is the air brush like cave artistries...pigments blown through a hollow reed or some such, or I gather, just pigments blown from one's mouth to make those handprint stencils...comes to mind I've seen like handprints on Native American horses, and teepees..
quote
The red handprint stands for death of an enemy or stained hands from war; used by many different tribes.
http://horsesoftheearth.wikifoundry.com/page/Indain+Horse+Markings
unquote
a remarkable thing is that when the Europeans arrived in North America they arrived in the midst of Stone Age cultures with 'kits', 'clip art books', pre-dating the last Ice Age...they continue...in Australia they continue..
quote
Many researchers have suggested the oldest paintings include depictions of long extinct animals but we can never be absolutely sure of this. Used pieces of ochre, “crayons”, are found in the lowest levels and throughout excavated rock shelter floor deposits in Australia.
http://theconversation.com/40-000-year-old-rock-art-found-in-indonesia-32674
unquote
I thought that charming as I had just used the words 'ochre' and 'crayon' in poem Salem
... ... ...
"Rosy fingered Dawn takes up her crayons"
...
"Red ochre filled reeds we trumpeted through
Until our handprint flared outlines found you."
:)
DavidDavid
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