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Composing Songs

...Which key should I put this song in?
I sing in G Ionian/major comfortably,
Likewise the relative E Aeolian/minor scale.
Plus those guitar chords are easy as sin.

I could choose a scale that’s m...

Categories: ionian, guitar, music, song,
Form: Lyric

My Home Ionian Isles

...I taste your desire"   a strawberry mind
blue muffin(casket walls of wet desire)
breasts of   isolated systems of dynamic mathematics
by its numeral ills of base ZERO	...
monolithic flowers swayi...

Categories: ionian, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Fo'C's'Le - a Dream

...fo'c·'sle    /'fohksel/  noun  deriv: forecastle
      1. the forward part of a ship below the deck, traditionally used as the crew's living quarters.
      2. historical:    a raised deck at the f...

Categories: ionian, boat, endurance, history, native
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Virtue

...… as I child I heard these words by Immanuel Kant from my late Dad

over and over again …’you must act in a way that if everybody did it

your thinking and deeds could be the foundations of a Uni...

Categories: ionian, character,
Form: Free verse

Six More Canadians Die

...Another six of 
Our Canadians have died
In a crash of a 
Helicopter in 
The Greek Ionian sea
Doing their duty.

Condolences go 
Out to all who are grieving 
At this saddened time.

W.C.Hul...

Categories: ionian, death,
Form: Haiku

Kefalonia

...On the twelfth of August in nineteen fifty three
Tectonic plates moved in the Ionian sea
A massive earthquake bringing destruction and death 
Caused kefalonia to draw her last breath.

Buildi...

Categories: ionian, holiday, mountains, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative

Garbled Vision

...As Samuel saw vaulted Xanadu of Kublai Khan fame
In smoke-filled corridors of sweat-drenched Opium-eaters
Did I spy a vision so surreal as to render all my sentient senses to nought
And to replace...

Categories: ionian, confusion, gothic, magic, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Musicianship

...Musicianship 
(3 May 2014;  For my son Steven, an ACCOMPLISHED guitarist)

Real musicianship can truly drive you nuts—
There really are no “ifs”, “ands”, or “buts”.
Practice, study, memorize, then mo...

Categories: ionian, education, humor, inspiration, music,
Form: Quatrain

Souls' Bridge Across the Sea

...Her heart rings out to meet the church-bells of
 a city by the sea, as she stands on a shoreline
 of Sicily;
singing bells, which patter her pampered heart, pitter-
 patter, fluttering her hybrid sou...

Categories: ionian, love, blue, blue, day,
Form: Free verse

Greek Philosophy After Heraclitus - Continued In Verse - With the Pluralists

...THE PLURALISTS : Empedocles & Anaxagoras

That single primary substance the ‘arche’ of
the Ionian philosophers ,
Was challenged by Emphedocles (b.495BC)
and Anaxagoras(b.500BC) !
Emphedocles sp...

Categories: ionian, historymen, hate, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Ancient Greek Philosophy Series Continued : Musical Theory of Pythagoras

...Pythagoras while playing the Lyre one day ,
Formulated his musical theory as Historians say !
Just as distinct notes were produced by the varying
lengths of the Lyre strings ,
So did the planets ...

Categories: ionian, historywater, fire, change, day,
Form: Rhyme

Introducing History of Ancient Greek Philosophy In Verse .

...Friends, I present to you the very edifice of Western Philosophy 
in Verse, dating back over two thousand five hundred years of History! Based on my 
painstaking research work because of my love fo...

Categories: ionian, history
Form: Rhyme