WHAT CANNOT BE SPOKEN: study & discussion group

luka

luka

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They think as
justly, this is indeed their vein of song if vain
but true, done each by turn to other recognise,
confirmed. It is compulsed for both and all three,
given to her from whence it came, full suffused
with new time in vain for sure yet now implore,
returning; give over, mission known allergic for
offset incidental, free active by fashion beaten
iron blame impaired, condone.
 
luka

luka

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luka said:
She Sheba
shall be their chosen royal queen, the nominated
Sheba lady at their minstrel oversight, as advised by a
traded hoopoe bird this is more than a game for
them, the open way to joy smudged by darkness.

The spread bird kingdom showed the way contended,
the bright hoopoe included as a rare migrant, go-
between.

The bright hoopoe by crest apports its message,
outwise in transit optimum titration, Solomon in all his
glory in deference to the heartland, unharmed queen
in consort arrayed.

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And now this day returns, alight with hopeful
memory, reclaiming the sky in cloud cover and hoop
to future, that bright bird again and its announcement.
 
luka

luka

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humectant
/hjʊˈmɛkt(ə)nt/
adjective
adjective: humectant
  1. retaining or preserving moisture.
noun
noun: humectant; plural noun: humectants
  1. a substance, especially a skin lotion or a food additive, used to reduce the loss of moisture.
 
luka

luka

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PETER : humectant breath-turn at noon fetch and carry
sing the while blend up hold steady countenance moil
and toil fibre new optic decision, comfort affix too.
TOM : mirror at then in canon, affirmed cantus beam
to modulate opinion intact mordant past sweet wet
instilling depute comfort affix serene river too.
PETER : in contest go humectant breath-turn; before
harbour patient ready mint, at high-pitch variance
a fiction spoken in vault shadow over star shot too.
TOM : parlance score to gain inception, leaping goat
skillet principle heart tremor astonish proximate
as birds as for song in air, air in first trust too.
PETER : fly over contented and eager, to look down
from night plane not obscurely, pack ice igloo fall
militant immunise forceps perfect in homage, in too.
TOM : her valiancy face up not forgotten invited own
ground of longing she bears Sheba’s crown bairn on
brow furrow omen Yemen, fire to plough fortune too.
BOTH BOYS : Peter to Tom, Tom to Peter askance inch
sentence unpretended, risen voices alight to need,
moon-pledge across crest of full sky recoil, too.
AGAIN : cloud known given each boy back to her, loan
in prescience mental fight afflicted anguishment
punish the mind reserve soon dark in daylight too.
AGAIN : she watches their eyelids move and startle,
 
luka

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Cantilena is a term for a smooth, lyrical vocal melody or instrumental passage. It can also refer to a musical style or a festival.


Musical style


  • In late medieval and early Renaissance music, cantilena was a vocal form and musical texture.
  • Cantilena was characterized by a prominent vocal line, with less complex tenor and countertenor lines.
  • Cantilena was used in both secular and sacred compositions.
  • The French composer Guillaume de Machaut and the Burgundian Guillaume Dufay were important composers in this style.
Festival


  • The Cantilena Festival is a week-long classical music festival on the Hebridean island of Islay.
  • The festival features professional musicians and students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
  • The festival includes concerts in Islay Malt Whisky distilleries.

Other uses


  • Cantilena may also refer to:
    • Cantilena, a jazz album by First House
    • Cantilena Antiqua, an early music ensemble from Italy
    • Cantilena Chamber Players, a chamber music ensemble from the 1980s



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  • Cantilena (disambiguation) - Wikipedia
    A cantilena is a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style. The term may also refer to: Bachianas Brasileira...

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luka

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Relentment versus grievance just tonic
hive busy combs the heart, deep purpose strew quartz
twin anthem prime acceptance prolific evidence true
beyond doubt resentful hurt to hurt, heart to heart,
ever in tune.

great poem parkland 2019 JH Prynne.
 
luka

luka

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Yet in the tent of holy consternation there are shadows

for each column of fire; in the hedgerow the wren

flits cross-wise from branch to branch. Afferent

signal makes the cantilena of speech

as from the far round of the child-way.

We are bleached in sound as it burns by what

we desire; light darting

over and over, through a clear sky
 
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luka

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‘Treatment in the Field’ points specifically to the ritual of the wren hunt, which involves hunting and killing a wren, usually on Christmas Day, and parading its corpse on the streets the next day. ‘Wrenboys’ carry these birds, which would be tied to wooden poles, and go from door to door collecting money for the bird’s burial expenses. The custom prevailed in Ireland and France, and persisted till the eighteenth century in the Isle of Man. Frazer reads this practice (which persists at least in Ireland today in a more animal-friendly format) as a remnant of the sacrificial killing and sharing of the body of the god that is central to fertility rites including, as he argues, Christian eucharistic rituals.34 The reappearance of the wren in the final stanza, flitting ‘crosswise from branch to branch’, underlines the mythical and redemptive suffering represented by Christ’s wounds.
 
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luka

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one of the lovely things about poetry is that my wren arrived without conscious knowledge of its implications, which it carried anyway.
 
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luka said:
‘Treatment in the Field’ points specifically to the ritual of the wren hunt, which involves hunting and killing a wren, usually on Christmas Day, and parading its corpse on the streets the next day. ‘Wrenboys’ carry these birds, which would be tied to wooden poles, and go from door to door collecting money for the bird’s burial expenses. The custom prevailed in Ireland and France, and persisted till the eighteenth century in the Isle of Man. Frazer reads this practice (which persists at least in Ireland today in a more animal-friendly format) as a remnant of the sacrificial killing and sharing of the body of the god that is central to fertility rites including, as he argues, Christian eucharistic rituals.34 The reappearance of the wren in the final stanza, flitting ‘crosswise from branch to branch’, underlines the mythical and redemptive suffering represented by Christ’s wounds.
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Oh I watched The Green Knight yesterday and it was like this
 
Benny Bunter

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I like the struggle, the resistance, the peaks and troughs, the violence, the identification with the little wild scurrying animals and insects of the night, the convocation of the birds in song.
 
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