I have pretty much always wanted to have a blog but I was never exactly sure what I would write about. In the end I decided the that the internet seemed like a great place to start publishing my poetry and short stories, since it has such a shining reputation for even-handed respectful criticism from it's variety of users. I write often, but it's often in apostrophe to God or anyone else I may be thinking of at the time. Still, I sometimes to take the time to carefully consider and write down other musings and I want to start tonight with my longest and most difficult piece of work. I say most difficult not only because it was taxing on my to write, but because unlike most things that I write it is somewhat dense to the point of being tedious, although, that is part of the point.
- The Anagraneto
I came up with this form of poetry myself without really understanding what I was getting myself into. Basically the Anagraneto is a three layered poem, with each layer having its own significance. In the case of Anagraneto I each layer delves deeper into a man's mind. The first layer, or the entire body of the poem itself is odd, deeply poetic, kind of boring and honestly a little difficult to get through. It's filled with metaphors and half ramblings which seem to lead nowhere while still perhaps alluding to some higher concept. The entire poem consists of fourteen separate sonnets, each with a unique format which lends itself to the second layer of the poem. To see the second layer you take the first letter of each line and use it to make new words. With each sonnet making a new line, the entire poem makes up an entire sonnet built from the original fourteen sonnets. This new sonnet takes you deeper into the mind of the man an with increasingly overt message, although still ruled by some symbolism. It's not over yet, the second layer sonnet like the first can be condensed. By taking the first letter of each line again the entire poem becomes a single fourteen letter phrase which represents the deepest level of the man's consciousness.
Confused yet? Don't worry it's easier when you see it. Just remember; three layers, take the first letter of each line to make new lines.
Anagraneto I:
Vagabond so true
Ever in this life
Rising in the dew
Into this strife
Leaving my views
Yearning in rife.
Mundane in array
Yelling to assay.
Dark it descends
Everyone goes in
Still I will bend
Into my minds din
Reeling to an end
Excluding my sin.
Inwardly do I fly
Seeking the sky
Take me away King
Hear as I cry loud
All my soul sings
To a sea of clouds
I wish to fly home
Wings carry high
Over tired earth
Upwards now I spy
Legions in birth
Denying of hearth
Besiege my dream
Exit golden beam
Singing with joy
Each mad man goes
Tumbling as a toy
A shout is my song
Pass it not light
Assail me no wrong
Recount my sight
Taking off night
I wail into space
Never to the race
Fade into my smoke
Irradiated case
Raging do I choke
Ending this pace
I smell salty sea
Never have I been
Under the debris
Never have I seen
Darkness pull me
Adrift into a din
Taken aback I see
Every filthy sin
Drowning in a fee
Itching in waves
Never now staves
Searing my bones
Ever now I float on
Away in the tones
Three is now gone
Aching and alone
Killing the fawn
Even to his bone
Never to a throne
Wailing in the dark
Inside and apart
Take me now O Lark
Hurry for my part
Open thee the ark
Under mine heart
Teach it to chart
Magnificent way
Ever growing day
Mark my sad words
Yelling to birds
Hell has to exist
Or joy could never
Part nor persist
End nor endeavor
Illuminated sky
Still do I ask why
Forgetting love
Afraid to breath
Detached shoves
In holiday seeth
Nettles and glove
Garland and wreath
Every live thing
Tells of waiting
Each it will sing
Run down a dating
Nearer with wing
Alight relating
Longer in jading
Wail loud and cry
All big and small
Increase so high
The shouts of all
In as much you die
Nature will call
Given to the fall
Outward so fine
Vexed undertones
Each mental line
Rattles and rows
Year by year I sit
Eager to float on
Aching now to fit
Reason it is gone
Seeking the dawn
I want to be right
Whatever I may do
Afar or in my home
Is ordered by you
Though I may roam
Hark it is the sun
Each day it rises
Run children run
All my surprises
Languish for fun
Degrading vices
I want us to be one
Newly righteous
God please buy us
All I want is life
Fear will take us
Acting as reaper
This will make us
Each a bit weaker
Dusk approaches
Evening it falls
Self encroaches
Timidly it calls
Rah he engrosses
Opening the hall
Yearning in pall
Things turn grey
Hoary and silent
Each thing fades
Living is simple
If we find above
First this ample
Elated high love
Exhausted today
Take me black home
Carried far away
Hurriedly I roam
Ebbing in the bay
Drowning in foam
I have a yearning
Nearly a burning
Marriage take me
Yield me now free
Sowing the earth
Over this soil
Under the hearth
Lonely not loyal
Away from all men
Below the shirts
Acting out my sin
Talking it hurts
Enter by the dirt
Tomorrow the day
Hastily nearing
Early will He say
See what is under
Treat it hostile
Repeal in wonder
Irate for a while
Fear now asunder
Enter to the pile
Take up this fire
Outward is power
Reach to the pyre
Catch the flower
Hasten the hour
Make me now clean
Expertly do wean
I just want to fly
Never so close by
Why such yelling
How can it be this
Overtly selling
Love and her kiss
Exit into bliss
Hold me away King
Eternal ringing
Royally do bring
Eternal singing
Peace for all men
All now laughing
Yearly have been
This is not final
He is waiting now
Entered in vinyl
Take me far apart
Oh take me to home
Leave not a heart
Lost and so alone
So there is is! Exciting huh? That's all for now, I may write some more about this later, explaining what I found to be the different strengths and weaknesses of this style, but for now I'm gonna watch some T.V.
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