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Rejection

14 Thursday Oct 2021

Posted by Candia in Personal, Poetry, Psychology, Relationships, Writing

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empathy, Goya, jealousy, Los Caprichos, quennet, rejection, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

File:Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes - The sleep of reason produces monsters (No. 43), from Los Caprichos - Google Art Project.jpg
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons.

Goya: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos

black mood patient endurance anguished thoughts

dashed hope

groundless expectation tunnel light silver lining?

suppressed frustration

wry smile forced laughter gnawing jealousy

daily grind

scarce empathy

gritted teeth

voluntary solitude

brittle persona

crushed spirit

low ebb

arrested development

black tunnel anguished grind daily endurance

groundless jealousy?

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Rokeby Venus

18 Thursday Mar 2021

Posted by Candia in art, Crime, History, Poetry, Social Comment, Writing

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Baedeker, National Gallery, protest, quennet, Rokeby Venus, Suffragettes

Rokeby Venus: National Gallery, UK

 

unsuccessful MP   beautiful paradigm   refused breakfast

backward glance

ageing face   gawping men   mirror image

five slashes

almond-eyed Madonna   broad-shouldered detectives   opened newspaper

pretend sketching

broken glass

slippery parquet

thrown Baedeker

crowd’s fury

cooling-off room

six month sentence

force-fed

newspaper image   backward paradigm   ageing men

broad-shouldered Madonna

 

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St Cuthbert

28 Sunday Feb 2021

Posted by Candia in Community, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Writing

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anachoresis, lammermuir, Lindisfarne, marginalia, oratory, quennet, solitude, St Cuthbert

Cuthbert discovers piece of timber - Life of St. Cuthbert (late 12th C), f.45v - BL Yates Thompson MS 26.jpg
Image from Creative Commons- 12th century ms.

Lammermuir shepherd   Aidan’s translation   earthly resignation

plague visitation

lapsed pagans   Whitby Synod   spiritual reputation

Pictish voyage

eyewitness miracles   contemplative anachoresis   preferred solitude

Lindisfarne assignation

Easter marginalia

nocturnal devotions

inner demons

remote oratory

strict denial

divine worship

incorrupt corpse

contemplative shepherd   earthly solitude   Lindisfarne miracles

spiritual voyage

 

 

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Snowdrop Quennet for Candlemas

01 Friday Feb 2019

Posted by Candia in History, Language, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Writing

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Candlemas, quennet, snowdrops

Buscot snowdrops

Candlemas Bells     White Purification    Snow Piercers

Milk Flowers

Naked Maidens       Good Christians        Ice Lilies

Mary’s Tapers

February Fairmaids     White tears         Death Flowers

Eve’s Comforters

Morning Stars

Pentecost Flowers

Mary’s Teeth

Dewdrops

Shrove Tuesday Fools

Flowers of Hope

Dingle-Dangles

Snow Bells          Eve’s Tears       Mary’s Tears

Candlemas Lilies

 

 

c Photo and poem by Candia Dixon-Stuart

 

 

 

 

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Mungo Man

07 Sunday Oct 2018

Posted by Candia in Animals, Environment, History, Nature, Poetry, Social Comment, Writing

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Australia, bilbies, bush tucker, dingos, Dreamtime, Mungo Man, Pintubi trackers, quennet, sedimentation, wattle, Willandra Lakes

Willandra Lakes.png

Willandra Lakes area, NASA image

 

 

post Dreamtime  terminal decline   Willandra Lakes

bush tucker

Wattle seeds       emu eggs     dried basin

flightless birds

widespread bushfires   preserved footprints   wandering child

missed spear

Pintubi trackers

one-legged man

lake sedimentation

bilbies and dingos

empty cranium

covered traces

widespread footsteps   bush child   dried lakes

Dreamtime seeds

 

 

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Margaret Preston

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

Posted by Candia in art, Environment, Nature, Poetry, Writing

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Berowra, Flowering Peach, Harbour Foreshore, Implement Blue, Margaret Preston, Mosman Bay, quennet, Shoalhaven River, Sydney Head

Margaret Preston Berowra 1936.jpg

(Photo in public domain via Wikipedia

Margaret Preston at her Berowra home,

1936)

 

Mosman Bay   Sydney Bridge   Harbour Foreshore

Shoalhaven River

Flowering Peach   Still Life   Modernist principles

Gum blossom

Implement Blue   bruise palette  Australian Legend

Berowra suburbs

commonplace truths

soda fountain

Lacquer Room

fragmented planes

rhythmic sea

golden thread

unseen things

life blossom    flowering palette   still river

Modernist Legend

 

 

 

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Stanley Spencer’s War

08 Sunday Jul 2018

Posted by Candia in Animals, art, Arts, Community, History, Literature, Nostalgia, Poetry, Relationships, Social Comment, Writing

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Burghclere, Ekiphrastic, Home Front, John Greening, Macedonia, quennet, Raymond Queneau, Sandham Memorial Chapel, Stanley Spencer, Ware Poetry Competition

A quennet- a form invented by Raymond

Queneau in 1975.

This is an Ekiphrastic poem, dealing with the

discussion of a visual work of art.  It was commended

in the Ware Poetry Competition, judged by John Greening

and appears (ed) in the subsequent anthology.

It was inspired by a visit to The Sandham Memorial

Chapel at Burghclere, near Basingstoke, which Stanley

Spencer decorated with murals, depicting the

ordinariness of war, on The Home Front and in

Macedonia, where he served as a medical orderly.

The formatting is not quite right as WordPress

doesn’t allow me to centre and retain the spacing,

with the short noun phrases being centred beneath

the long line of 3 noun phrases.  The 5 line interlude

with the syllable counts of  2-5 should also be centred….

Nevertheless, you’ll get the idea!

 

 

 

precious horses   scavenging boar   tortoise company

mosquito nets

protective firebelt   unravelled puttee   distant Christ

Kalinova katharsis

Macedonian map   heavenly tea   wounded convoy

smuggled kitten

hotwater bottle

frostbitten foot

jam sandwiches

magenta bathtubs

traumatised scrubbing

iodine painting

bilberry feast

unravelled company  Macedonian mosquito  precious kitten

wounded Christ

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Mansplaining Quennet

11 Wednesday Apr 2018

Posted by Candia in Crime, Language, Poetry, Psychology, Social Comment, Writing

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euphemism, Father of Lies, generic, mansplaining, quennet, rhetoric, smokescreen

Females also guilty – should be ‘Mankindsplaining!’ (New generic?)

 

Hot air   forked tongues   terminal inexactitudes

filthy whitewash

tranparent smokescreens   inexcusable excuses   unmitigated untruths

hollow rants

iniquitous insinuations  criminal understatements  overblown rhetoric

smooth sham

Father of Lies

sweeping evasions

Master of Deceit

euphemistic gloss

hyperbolic tirades

Hath God said?

rash incitements

hollow rhetoric   smooth tongues  transparent excuses

iniquitous inexactitudes

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Elementary Morality Poem

03 Saturday Mar 2018

Posted by Candia in Community, Nostalgia, Personal, Poetry, Religion, Social Comment, Writing

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Elementary Morality, Fifties childhood, Hellfire preaching, Lucozade, pea souper, Queneau, quennet, Redemption Hymnal

…a form outlined by Queneau.  A ‘quennet’ to his followers.

It starts with 3 sets of  noun phrases on one line, followed by a

single one on the second line.

Repeat 3 times. (6 lines)

Then 7 lines of 1 – 5 syllables,

followed by

a final 2 line sequence of  3 noun phrases on one line

and a final one on the last line.  These must incorporate words from

the first set, but in new combination.

 

For example:

 

Fifties Childhood

 

dense pea-soupers  dripping condensation  wheezing chest

Lucozade film

cold stethoscope  smoky pipe  nosy neighbour

hacking cough

headscarfed curlers  Redemption Hymnal  pigswill bucket

Hellfire preaching

trapped rabbit

netted

bludgeoned to death

a screaming child

kind old man

saved cabbages

bloodied corpse

dense preaching  smoky Hellfire  cold Redemption

dripping bucket

 

 

 

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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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