Anastasya Shepherd

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Tag: experience

  • On the Nature of Poetry

    Trying to describe the indescribable
    is a mug’s game.

    There are no stories
    beyond the power of words,
    for stories are words.

    As we try to get at the magic of experience,
    the enchantment that can transcend facts
    and transmute reality,
    …it turns into a story
    born of words
    and limited by them.
    It rhymes and writhes,
    but artifice of language
    only hints
    at possibility
    of something deeper;
    it makes your reader work,
    inventing meaning,
    while losing your experience forever
    and making you redundant…
    What a pity!

    Poor poet –
    forever betrayed by your tools
    turning experience into stories,
    visceral into abstract,
    dreams into – what?

    —

    by

    ashepherd
    in

  • Idyll

    Song of Innocence

    The orange light
    of the setting sun:
    it tells everyone
    that the day is done.
    It’s time to unwind,
    set the day apart,
    to empty your mind
    and to fill your heart.

    Song of Experience

    The bloody light
    of the setting sun,
    it tells the night
    that the day is done.
    There is no suspense
    for the die is cast,
    you can drop pretence
    and relax at last.

    —

    by

    ashepherd
    in

  • Been there, done that…

    The “seen it” phenomenon almost completely passed me by.
    I cannot understand how it is possible to be bored by too much experience.
    The more things we see – the more patterns we notice.
    The more patterns we notice – the more things we find interesting.
    When we pay attention, experience is the act of creation:
    of an image out of patterns of light and dark,
    of a thought out of words and images,
    of a world out of perceptions and thoughts…
    One notable exception is the entertainment industry,
    where the “seen it” phenomenon happens to me all the time.

    —

    by

    ashepherd
    in
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