In this (an appropriate PS choice for a Sunday morning)abba sonneteerJohn Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631 Jacobean poet, satirist, lawyer and preacher/cleric in the Church of Englan considered the founding figure of the so-called metaphysical poetry movement dwells on this most significant rite of passage with his 'concluding couplet' a paraphrased evangelical 'revelation' quotation on this topic.
MUSIC AND THE VISUAL
extraordinary
influence
celebrated
paraphrased
experiments
a discussed
prefaced
leitmotif
illustrative
evocation
translating
literal
juxtaposed
polychrome
conceptions
floating
mirrored
settings
interrupting
transformed
apotheosis
parallelled
as
notional
utterances
seemingly
unbounded
imagined
superiority
extolled
narrative
embodiments
edifying
emotive
discourse
of
intrinsic
harmony
HOMAGE TO OTHERNESS
cultural
preserves
in
ambitious
secondary
reproductions
& reservations
imitate
the
inevitable
thematic
choices
with
distinctive
paraphrased
oblique
adaptations
apparently
& unusually
plausibly
unadulterated
yet
conspicuous
focussed
perceptions
SOPHISTICATIONS
universal
interpretative
feelings
curiously
corrected
connections
of
coherence
reconciled
by
chance
suspended
reflections
opaque
sensory
preceptions
in
plausible
paraphrased
lyical
notations
intense
tacit
private
&personified
with
vivid
fluid
spatial
imaginations
conscious
paraphrased
episodics
outwardly
inward
&
in
disquiet
stylistics
endanger
existence
of affinity
with
occasioned
emphasis
abandoning
the
peripherals
a montage
subjugating
&
reconciling
symbolic
concepts
of
apposite
eclectics
lightning
ignites
euphoria
in
progressive
gestures
of
synthetic
spheres
reality
overwhelms
&
extinguishes
utopia
a spectacle
inherited
paraphrased
yet
still
envisaged
fascinates
oscillating
an
individual
sense
of
the profound
trembling
boundless
&incessant
And the Lord will say to them on Judgment Day,
“I was hungry, and you defunded my food aid programs.
I was thirsty, and you rolled back drinking water protections.
I was a stranger, and you snatched me and deported me.
I was naked, and you gave tax breaks to billionaires.
I was sick, and you cut Medicaid and Medicare.
I was in prison, and you gave me no due process.”
And the self-righteous will ask him,
“Lord, when did we do those things to you?”
The Lord will answer them,
“Whatever you did
to one of the least of these,
brothers and sisters of mine,
you did to me.”
(Paraphrased excerpt from Matthew 25:31-46.)
(First published in Substack, 21 May 2025. See also my poems “Bringing Heaven to Earth” and “Quantum Acts of Kindness.”)
KUHLMANN my kisses tristich HAPPENING
From Inspiration:idea,impulse,births:
a poem
A BRIAN STRAND FORM 4x5 (2009)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_dFGYv4sWgY
for my dynamic paraphrased translation into English of one of the 6227020800 possible variation on this sonnet 41 to illustrate what Kuhlmann intended)
The complete 50 sonnets (in old German script )are available ISBN 3484160195 .
NOTE:This is my dynamic paraphrased translation into English of one of the 6227020800 possible variation on this sonnet 41 to illustrate what Kuhlmann intended .The complete 50 sonnets (in old German script )are available ISBN 3484160195 .
HEAVENLY KISSES a sonnet
(a changing life)
At NIGHT, fog, frost, Torment&Worry
Next DAY, snow, lightning, Fire &Distress
From GRIEF, angst, sorrow, Disgrace,Ridicule
With JOY, ease, wins, Constant Day
The MOON, smoke, flame, Ox and Wagon
Love's LIGHT, floods,field, Knowledge is Sustenancd
Our OBJECTIVE human,travail, Faith and God
PURPOSED, prize,promise, &Thankfulness
What is GOOD,right,positive,do Mention
CULTIVATE,earth, floods, to AVOID
Sans COURAGE, praise, soul, be APART
With FEAR, lies, strife, soon Reigns
Everything changes:Everyone loves:We, all ,incline to hate;
We ,who meditate these Words,understand the human state
A POEM FOR ANGITIA:
a paraphrased of Silius Italicus (c26-191 CE)
Angitia the Daughter of Eeta the Sun
And the Sea-nymph Persa
Was first to use herbs
In magic and wellness.
She is Mistress of Venoms.
She murmurs by the stream
To draw down the Moon.
By her command the river is held back.
The mountains and the forests become still.
HEAVENLY KISS XL1 by Quirinus Kuhlmann
(a changing life)
At NIGHT, fog, frost, Torment&Worry
Next DAY, snow, lightning, Fire &Distress
From GRIEF, angst, sorrow, Disgrace,Ridicule
With JOY, ease, wins, Constant Day
The MOON, smoke, flame, Ox and Wagon
Love's LIGHT, floods,field, Knowledge is Sustenancd
Our OBJECTIVE human,travail, Faith and God
PURPOSED, prize,promise, &Thankfulness
What is GOOD,right,positive,do Mention
CULTIVATE,earth, floods, to AVOID
Sans COURAGE, praise, soul, be APART
NOTE:This is my dynamic paraphrased translation into English of one of the 6227020800 possible variation on this sonnet 41 to illustrate what Kuhlmann intended .The complete 50 sonnets (in old German script )are available ISBN 3484160195 .
I watched the “news” this morning.
Chicken Little ran around squawking
Two women talked amiably after describing
scenes of horrific violence.
A homeless puppy was found
cared for and now needs a “forever” home.
Thousands called in looking to adopt it.
A homeless veteran was stepped over
in the entrance to a shelter
he/she was not cared for or allowed entrance.
Three kittens sang “Jingle Bells”
Chicken Little squawked a bit more
Climate change, global warming yadayada
The weather persons told me of storms
in the Midwest, floods in the south and
high temps in Arizona….
I had to look out my window
to get the weather report here.
The station manager made a Public Service Announcement.
Paraphrased : “If you’d all just do as you’re told
everything would be just fine”.
(the commercials were for Erectile disfunction, tampons,
birth control and condoms….oh….and childrens breakfast cereal))
John G. Lawless
1/4/2022
colour
enlivened concepts
an inner necessity
of geometrics
minimalised
paraphrased
visualisations
to captivate
in
sparse curves
&circles
of
emancipated
abstractions
idyllised
simplicity
in sparse
wonderlands
By George P. Lumayag
The unconscious speaks against facts,
But the conscious mind reasons out that ICT can guide him.
MS Word reminds him of his misspelled words,
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It reminds him of his choppy words,
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It also reminds him of his wrong structured phrases,
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Grammarly.com recommends him the suitable words,
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Turnitin reminds him the copied phrases or sentences,
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Youtube teaches the blind man to improve his English accent.
And it guides him to improve his speech in public speaking.
But such software or application could not remind him
On his unconscious impromptu speech.
One dark and stormy night, when half my life lay behind me ?I wandered from the straight and narrow path too far.
And took my heart for a ship’s compass
All through the darkness, I followed no course, no path but my own. ?
With only unlimited darkness before me
Above that darkness, there was no guiding star. ?
That had once guided kings and shepherd alike. ?
When you are born blind only the darkness can see your way.
While death’s cold hands pluck at one's terrors and fears.?
Gladly the dreads I felt are too dire to retell,
The hopeless, pathless, lightless times forgotten,
I turn my tale to that which next befell,
When the true dawn opened
and the dark night was no longer my guide.
Paraphrased from the opening to Dante's Inferno.
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