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Monthly Archives: August 2017

Glaswegian Literary Works

30 Wednesday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in Humour, Language, Literature, Satire, Social Comment, Writing

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My brother challenged me to come up with a list.  He

supplied:

Tae Kiss a Mockit’ Bird  and You, Missus.

Sibling rivalry strikes:

 

Arms and the Wee Man (plays allowed)

The Duchess o’ Malkie

Labour’s Lost

Midsummer’s A Dream

A Streetcar Named Blantyre

View from The Erskine Bridge

Six Characters in Search O’an Off-Licence

Oor Toon

Laird of the Pies

Prejudice

Crime and Nae Punishment

Ma Damn Ovary

Lorna’s Doon

Paralytic Handy

The Grapes o’ Carnwath

Nae Remembrance o’ Things Past

101 Pit Bulls

Cousin Bet-Fred

Anne o’ Green Gorbals

Rilla o’ Kelvinside

The Wind in the Willow Tearooms

Three Hard Men in a Boat

Done for Possession

High Wind in Jamaica Street

Oranges WERE the only Fruit

P****shed Family Robinson

Aye, whit Beloved Country?

F**** off, Pendulum

The Life of Pie

Nae Expectations

The Heartlessness of Midlothian

Bender is the Night

One Threw Up in the Cuckoo’s Nest

North Anger Abbey

The Peril

Alice in Poundland

Alice Put through the Looking Glass

Trainspitting

And Quietly Flows The Clyde

A Man fur Wan Season

The Bonfire o’ Profanities

Wan Scoop

Just so ye know stories

Grand Master Goes Commando

The Redundant Rainmaker

… all copyright!!

 

 

 

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Hahakigi: The Broom Tree

28 Monday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, Literature, mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, Social Comment, Writing

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boussokusekika, Tale of Genji, The Broom Tree, Utagawa Toyokuni, Utsusemi

(Artist:Utagawa Toyokuni; Denman Waldo Ross collection, Museum Fine Arts, Boston)

 

Vice-governor’s wife

was as a broom tree growing

in a shabby yard.

She chose her safe marriage,

for rank dictated conduct.

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The Shell of the Locust

27 Sunday Aug 2017

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Go, Nokiba-no-ogi, shell of the locust, Tale of Genji, Utagawa Kunisada II, Utsusemi

Tale of Genji - detail second screen

(Artist: Utagawa Kunisada II; ukiyo-e-org)

Variation on earlier post: The Locust Lady

 

 

Utsusemi and

Nokiba-no-ogi play

Go.  Genji then goes

for the former, but she flees,

leaving her robe behind her.

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Kiritsubo

27 Sunday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, Family, Literature, mythology, Nostalgia, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, Writing

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Fujitsubo, Kiritsubo, Murasaki Shikibi, Shining Prince, Tale of Genji

Kiritsubo from the series The Tale of Genji in Modern Dress (Furuyu yatsushi Genji)

(Fine Arts, San Francisco. Artist: Isoda Koryusai; c 1770 Achenbach

Foundation. Gift Miss Carlotta Mabury)

 

Oh, Kiritsubo,

bullied, you wasted away.

Your son was banished.

Fujitsubo looks like you;

the Emperor wed her, but

The Shining Prince will return.

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Wild Geese at Suma

27 Sunday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, Literature, Music, mythology, Nostalgia, Poetry, Psychology, Relationships, Romance, Writing

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Genji, koto, Murasaki Shikibu, Suma, sutras, wild geese

Tale of Genji detail

 

Should he send for her?

No, that would not be penance.

To fast, meditate

would be more apt, propitious.

The shells on the shore,

empty as past promises,

are crushed by the waves.

In the ebb and flow of life,

his thoughts are tossed like driftwood.

A gloomy koto

gives expression to his grief.

He intones sutras

as he hears the wild geese cry.

They choose to leave; he cannot.

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Heartvine

27 Sunday Aug 2017

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Fujitsubo, Genji, heartvine, Murasaki Shikibu, Oe

Tale of Genji detail

 

Oh, Fujitsubo,

to hint at old resentments

just adds to despair.

If only I could vanish!

My guards officer

spoke of how we’d worn heartvine

in the olden days.

I attached a note for the

Prince to an unblossomed branch

and took my farewell.

No more flowers in my cap.

The sad Oe station

is only marked by pine groves.

This is littoral exile!

 

 

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Safflower

26 Saturday Aug 2017

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safflower, Tale of Genji, tanka, Tayu

Here is Genji creeping through yet another fence, and being caught by To no Chujo. Tosa Mitsunori (1583-1638) “Safflower”

 

Genji is informed

by Tayu that a sad girl

plays music all day.

Genji is intrigued and scores.

He should have checked her out first!

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Lavender

25 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, Literature, Poetry, Romance, Writing

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Genji, Japanese poetry, Murasaki, Peeping Tom

 

Genji seeks healing

for his burning fever but,

like a Peeping Tom,

he spies on all the ladies :

Murasaki is his choice.

 

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The Locust Lady

24 Thursday Aug 2017

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Tale of Genji, tanka, The Locust Lady, Utsusemi

 

The girl Genji likes

has her home broken into.

Utsusemi flees.

The cad confiscates her robe

and he sleeps with her best friend.

 

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The Jeweled Chaplet (Tamakazura)

24 Thursday Aug 2017

Posted by Candia in Animals, art, Arts, Nature, Poetry, Romance, Social Comment, Writing

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Jeweled Chaplet, Mandarin ducks, Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji, Tamakazura, Tosa Mitsuoki

Tanka 3 in my series:

 

Tamakazura

 

 

 

Outside, on the stream,

a pair of Mandarin ducks

paddle in tandem.

If roofs were removed, would we

see such faithfulness, or not?

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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