06 Aug 2019
by Jem Croucher
in Creative Writing, Life, poem, Poet, Poetry, poetry blog, words, wordsmith
Tags: creative writing, Jemverse, poem, poet, poetic, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, verse, words, wordsmith, writing poetry
So I’ve been writing for a while
a poem every day
Been doing this for fifty years
so I’ve along the way
picked up (I’d say) a trick or two
over all that time
of how to craft words into verse
which flow and nicely rhyme
I’ve had a lot of practice
and that makes perfect as you know
But there again my writing
still has a ways to go
‘Cos I’m always getting better
as there’s a lot to learn
of how to craft life into words
for others to discern
So I’ll just keep on writing
as life has lots to say
with Jemverse as my outlet
for new poems by the day
©Jemverse
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24 Jul 2019
by Jem Croucher
in Creative Writing, poem, Poet, Poetry, words, wordsmith
Tags: bussokuseki, Japanese poetry, Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, wordsmith, writing, writing poetry
Bussokuseki
This poetic triplicate
ends today with this
Now it’s found there will be more
Art is never satisfied
Never still the poet’s pen
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
The Bussokuseki-kahi (仏足石歌碑) is a well-known monument in the Yakushi Temple in Nara, inscribed with twenty-one poems
The poems are written in Man’yōgana, a precursor to kana where Chinese characters are used for their phonetic value, and in Bussokuseki-style. Named after the poems, Bussokuseki-style is an archaic poetic device in which lines are written in a 5-7-5-7-7-7 mora pattern. It is an early form of waka.
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22 Jul 2019
by Jem Croucher
in Creative Writing, poem, Poet, Poetry, words, wordsmith
Tags: 6 lines, bussokuseki, Japanese poetry, Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, wordsmith, writing poetry
Finding words to form
to syllabic sequencing
always a pleasure
Challenging but daily done
Satisfaction guaranteed
with bussokuseki found
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
The Bussokuseki-kahi (仏足石歌碑) is a well-known monument in the Yakushi Temple in Nara, inscribed with twenty-one poems
The poems are written in Man’yōgana, a precursor to kana where Chinese characters are used for their phonetic value, and in Bussokuseki-style. Named after the poems, Bussokuseki-style is an archaic poetic device in which lines are written in a 5-7-5-7-7-7 mora pattern. It is an early form of waka.
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01 Jul 2019
by Jem Croucher
in Life, Love, photo, poem, Poet, Poetry, words, wordsmith
Tags: creative writing, Jemverse, July, love, marriage, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, soulmate, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
11 of 12 in the Jemverse series ’12 months II’
In seventy-nine
Forty Julys back
two kindred spirits wed
A fledgling love
grown stronger since
and deeper it’s been said
So this series
now at eleven
to my soulmate here I give
These simple words
true from my heart
for the life we share and live
©Jemverse
Jem & Sal on their wedding day: 7 July 1979 [photo – James Newbold]
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30 Jun 2019
by Jem Croucher
in poem, Poet, Poetry, poetry blog, words, wordsmith
Tags: creative writing, Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, verse, words, writing poetry
It’s been said before
but my pen can’t keep still
as I write every day
on a whim and a will
Words about life
I see around me
and the things that I do
and the world that I see
It’s something I do
Lifeblood of my being
Capturing words
about all I am seeing
And when I have written
something else that I do
is publish them daily
and share them with you
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
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07 Jun 2019
by Jem Croucher
in poem, Poet, Poetry, words, wordsmith
Tags: Jemverse, life, passing, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rhyme, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
I read to you
whilst there you slept
Perhaps you felt
the tears I wept
Perhaps you heard
It’s hard to say
But I continued
anyway
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
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03 Jun 2019
by Jem Croucher
in beauty, Life, poem, Poet, Poetry, words, wordsmith
Tags: contentment, Jemverse, life, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, words, wordsmith, writing poetry
If a story speaks
and brings a tear
spilled out without reserve
from an eye that knows pleasure
If a landscape catches
and a breath is held long
whilst a moment is safisfied
Then I am the echo of life
Relecting beauty
I bring contentment
©Jemverse
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