So here it is after all the struggle – “A Shaman’s Journey Revealed Through Poetry” – Available in Amazon and Amazon Europe. I hope you find this book enlightening and that you live it up as your own journey! We all have a gift waiting to be revealed but is up to you to unravel the mysteries awaiting for you. The human revolution starts from within!
Gav
http://www.amazon.com/Shamans-Journey-Revealed-Through-Poetry/dp/0989273423/
In rare occasions there are unique partnerships that are able to achieve incredible acts of faith. I said faith because you need all your power to successfully revive and old poetic form into this modern world where all spins around simplicity and time.
The “Glosa” is an early Renaissance form that was developed by poets of the Spanish court in the 14th and 15th centuries. In a “Glosa”, tribute is paid to another poet. The opening quatrain, called a cabeza, is by another poet, and each of their four lines are imbedded elsewhere in the “Glosa”.
The opening quatrain is followed by four stanzas, each of which is generally ten lines long, that elaborate or “glosses” on the cabeza chosen. Each ending line (10th line) of the four following stanzas is taken from the cabeza.
The usual rhyme scheme of a “Glosa” is final word rhyming of the 6th, 9th and the borrowed 10th lines.
Today I want to honour my Friends Elaine Stirling and Alain C. Dexter because they just had a dream, they pursued and they conquered successfully that dream and made it real in two excellent books. and to celebrate them both I wrote a poem that follows:
Thresholds
There were twelve in the Cenacle.
Some of them thinner-faced
others arguing among dreams
the apexes of the local vernacular
Without any remnant of oracle
their eyes sparkled as owners
of the twilight glow of reveries
embodied in the magic of a verse
There ended the gazebo of fancies,
of words written in the return
of what was a sea of gibberish.
Forging on light and sweat the setting
of what far from a pleasant evening
turned the writress into her final frontier.
Umbrales
Había doce en el Cenáculo
algunos con rostros cenceños
otros discutiendo entre sueños
los ápices del lenguaje vernáculo
Sin ningún retazo de oráculo
sus ojos rutilaban como dueños
del brillo crepuscular de los ensueños
plasmados en la magia de un versículo
Allá terminó el mirador de fantasías,
de palabras escritas en el retorno
de lo que fue un mar de galimatías
Forjando con luz y sudor el entorno
de lo que lejos de ser una noche placentera
convirtió a la escritora en su ultima frontera.
Gavriel Navarro© 2013
You can find Elaine’s book by clicking in the image
You can find Alain’s book by clicking in the image
I also like to mention Greyhart Press and Tim Taylor for believing in Poetry and publishing this books because they will be one day world heritage!
My Book “The Wind and the Sea, Japanese Edition” has been officially released at Amazon! Today is a happy day and another milestone for me!
http://www.amazon.com/Wind-Sea-Voyage-Return-Japanese/dp/0985923466/
Today I want to make a new announcement! Work on my third volume of poetry “Reflections on the Mirror: Journey to the Depths of the Self” is moving fast and I already have a cover. Also the poetry works are completed and its going to be from now on just minor details and design issues to send it to press! Here is the final art of the Book cover.
Also work on my first book translation to Japanese is nearly concluded and will be available really soon! Here is the cover work for that Volume!
Gav.
Here is a clear explanation how to create “Navarrette Quatrains” a poetic form I developed. This takes you step by step showing you the precise construct of this poetic form:
First you create a line like on this naverrette:
“Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master”
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then you copy paste 4 times:
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
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the next step you change the final part of the first 3 verses:
Now you’re mine, so do not hurry
Now you’re mine, come to live in my dreams
Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy light
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
notice that each line now is different and the Original line becomes the first verse of the last stanza
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then the first 3 stanzas are free to write without rules:
Now you’re mine, so do not hurry
take your time on my bosom
while the skyline is dawning
and the birds spin out their destiny
Now you’re mine, come to live in my dreams
life brought you to me with certainty
mounted on its invisible fugitive wings
at this Alhambra that I built for you
Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy light
your hands are not blind to my body
and your lips are not foreign to my taste
I am fire you wear and take you to my heart
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
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Now notice that the last stanza has a singularity. I used the original words I replaced after the repetition to construct the 4th stanza:
first verse, first stanza I used:
Now you’re mine, so do not “hurry”
first verse, second stanza I used:
Now you’re mine, come to live in my “dreams”
first verse, third stanza I used:
Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy “light”
forth stanza:
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
forever your destiny safe and without “hurry”
“dream” of your dream in the eternity of time
filling up with our “light”the shadows of the Universe…
Notice the words used to change the lines created to make different starts for each stanza are remarked. you must use those words in the following order to make sense and create the last stanza:
The first verse, first stanza word matches with a word in the second verse, fourth stanza
the first verse, second stanza word matches with a word in the third verse, fourth stanza
the first verse, Third stanza word matches with a word in the fourth verse, fourth stanza.
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now the poem read like this:
Now you’re mine, so do not hurry
take your time on my bosom
while the skyline is dawning
and the birds spin out their destiny
Now you’re mine, come to live in my dreams
life brought you to me with certainty
mounted on its invisible fugitive wings
at this Alhambra that I built for you
Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy light
your hands are not blind to my body
and your lips are not foreign to my taste
I am fire you wear and take you to my heart
Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master
forever your destiny safe and without hurry
dream of your dream in the eternity of time
filling up with our light the shadows of the Universe…
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the 4th stanza is the major problem to resolve but once you crack it, should finally read like this other poem:
When we are…
When we are eternal, we are airborne
taking flight on my trembling feathers
a faint act of faith that leaped forward
to reach a desired height and then stop
When we are eternal, we are stillness
whispering divine Argos of ice and fire
the innerspring of ardent voices to the wind
beyond the veils of tranquil warm nights
When we are eternal, we are vacuum
absorbed by lucid inequities and mute faces
lost in the emptiness of space untamed
in the absence of Sunlight, airless drowning
When we are eternal, we are timeless
airborne souls, we are not extinguished
within the stillness of immortal darkness
nailed deep into the vacuum of the sky….
Gavriel Navarro© 2012
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The purpose of the form is displayed at the last stanza and I believe this formula opens a channel to the subconscious… Have fun if you decide to try!
AboutOceantics~ because the waves and tumbles of life are only as serious as we make them.
Some news I like to share with all of you, my new book “Fire and Earth: Poems and reflections on the Nature of Desire” is available already at Amazon on paperback format! exciting times! Thank you always for your support! A poem follows the photo for your appreciation…
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0985923415
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