pûr - ter - āēr - mar
Latin-tinged Acrostic Compound Haiku
purifying fire
ûnhibitied, blazing
reaping my soul clean
terrains we traverse
earthen pathways of our lives
rambling on to death
ātmospheric skies
ēagles' majestic domain
reminds; humbles us
maelstroms teach and test
are we cut out to survive?
reality drowns us all
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Second to last entry into the Quadru-Haiku Challenge.
Acrostic using Latin roots for the elements. Ambitious or stupid? Did I really pull it off?
I have loved being able to push myself with this challenge. Haikus really do teach us how to have a better command of words. The better economy of words.
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'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
Comments (8)
Ambitious and effective 💖
Lives, skies, survive. How marvelous, the loose rhyme in this one, so cohesive in its sound. You capture the bigness of nature so well. I've read a few from this challenge but this one gets the themes down in a subtle way, the main theme much larger and more tangible here. So much to love! I could analyze it for a while! 💖 One of my favorites from you.
Wow loved this! Great flow, easy to follow but still complex and creatively written. Nailed the prompt as well!
It art , It's an idea, and it's good
Whoaaa, you blew my mind with this one! You are so inspirational!
This was unique - I like it! I enjoyed the latin :)
yeah, I think it worked wonderfully. well done.
The word nerd in me is so proud of you!! I loved this! It flowed really well. And I these lines kept sticking out to me on the re-reads, 'ēagles' majestic domain reminds; humbles us'. Excellent work