What poetic form would you associate with the classical Greek and Classical Chinese elements (earth, water, wood, metal, fire, and air)? And which form would you associate with "light magic" or "divine magic"?
Here's what I'm thinking:
Fire - Petrarchan sonnet (ABBAABBACDECDE); lay a foundation of quatrain wood for an enlightening conclusion
Metal - Villanelle; repeating refrain and solid structure emulates the solidity and geometric nature of refined metals
Air - not sure yet...
Earth - not sure yet...
Wood - Spenserian stanza; sing-songy and easily fashioned into a multi-stanza poem like a forest pushing out its borders
Water - Shakespearean sonnet; ebb and flow in first three quatrains finishing with a couplet like the break of a wave on shore
Divine - not sure...
Other poetic forms to consider are rhyme royal, haiku, and alliterative verse like early Anglo-Saxon and later Scandinavian poetry. I was thinking Air would be Haiku (light and transient). I was also thinking of using Rhyme Royal for Divine/light and possibly using the perfect sonnet form (ABBAABBACDCDEE) for water.
I would prefer to keep this to forms that work well in English; I'm hesitant to use Haiku or other forms measured by syllables instead of metric feet like Chinese poetry. I would also prefer to steer clear of super complex forms like the rondeau.
C.S. Lewis personified lust as "brown girls" in his Pilgrim's Regress. He based it on two things: a dream he had and an allusion to a work by William Morris. In the dream, Lewis encountered a naked bronze-skinned girl on a carriage giving him a smug look that said "Yes, I know; isn't it a scream". In the Morris work, the protagonist has several encounters with lusty women in the countryside and describes the women as tanned or bronzed.
@BowsacNoodle an old jewish couple did this to me once. It was like I'd told them I would kill their firstborn. I've never seen someone get so angry and pugnacious so quickly.
As the race war begins, so, too, does my Christ-centered sword and sorcery series.
Thanks to @BowsacNoodle for the feedback. I shall edit my first story and send it in to see if any magazines want it. Pray to the Lord of the harvest for the ultimate salvation of those on both sides of the race war and for the victory of the righteous in it! The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few!
@coolboymew@weeble I never understood the appeal of Fez. Yeah, it plays around with 2D and 3D. So what? Is it fun? Is it dulce et utile? Maybe I'll give it a second chance...
I have this problem frequently enough that I have a whole itinerary of stretches.
First stretch: 1. Tilt head to right so ear touches shoulder 2. Pivot head so you're looking down toward your left pectoral 3. Raise your right arm and rest your palm above your left ear 4. Pull with your right arm and hold for a 10 count 5. Repeat 1-4 with other side -- You should feel the stretch around the left side of your trapezius and it should work out the blue, green, and red muscles in this diagram
I just started reading Jeremiah, and seeing the LORD bolster Jeremiah's confidence gave me some encouragement in going forward with the Truth of the Gospel in these thieves' dens.
My faith in in Christ, and I've studied enough apologetics not to doubt the veracity of the Triune God of the universe and His word in Scripture. If anything, this ordeal, as you said, bolsters my discernment skills.
Leviticus is a bit of a slog, but I've found it helps to read it as the document that it is - a series of legal policies and religious ritual descriptions - and to imagine the slog the priests and judges had to go through to follow the Mosaic Law. Spend some time among cows or goats or sheep if you haven't; watch a slaughterhouse demonstration. These men were beastly strong and had to do these (bizarre to us) rituals day in and day out. Thanks be to God we're free from that via Christ's atonement at the cross and His resurrection at the empty tomb.
> Bible study and fellowship with other Christians
I read my Bible daily (usu. 1-2 chapters per day from an interlinear Bible with exegetical commentaries on the more oblique words, phrases, and passages). Fellowship with other Christians is more difficult. I'm not a part of an off-Sunday Bible study group or anything, and it's difficult for me to make friends in general.
1. Look into the pastor's history; see where he studied and what his writings say about the Gospel (first and foremost) AND how he addresses the current zeitgeist 2. Look into the connections the congregation has with other organizations; I also just learned that the congregation I left is a part of a larger organization primarily funded by pro-immigration and pro-black "charities"
I've been listening to Corey J. Mahler's Stone Choir podcast, and he mentions "the genealogy of ideas". If a "pastor" is using Marxist rhetoric or Marxist talking points, that should raise some red flags.
Officially on the hunt for a new congregation. Found out the head pastor of the one I was attending for three years uses Marxist talking points when it comes to race. Not having that. Please pray for me, guys.