How to write a “Navarrette Quatrain” https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/t1959 Runboard| How to write a “Navarrette Quatrain” en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:34:08 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:34:08 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 How to write a “Navarrette Quatrain”https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p13634,from=rss#post13634https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p13634,from=rss#post13634found this on the interwebs: http://gavrielmuse.com/2012/09/19/how-to-write-a-navarrette-quatrain/ SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 How to write a “Navarrette Quatrain” Here is a clear explanation how to create “Navarrette Quatrains” a poetic form I developed. This takes you step by step showing you the precise construct of this poetic form: First you create a line like on this naverrette: “Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master” __________ then you copy paste 4 times: Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master ___________ the next step you change the final part of the first 3 verses: Now you’re mine, so do not hurry Now you’re mine, come to live in my dreams Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy light Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master notice that each line now is different and the Original line becomes the first verse of the last stanza _____________ then the first 3 stanzas are free to write without rules: Now you’re mine, so do not hurry take your time on my bosom while the skyline is dawning and the birds spin out their destiny Now you’re mine, come to live in my dreams life brought you to me with certainty mounted on its invisible fugitive wings at this Alhambra that I built for you Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy light your hands are not blind to my body and your lips are not foreign to my taste I am fire you wear and take you to my heart Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master _____________ Now notice that the last stanza has a singularity. I used the original words I replaced after the repetition to construct the 4th stanza: first verse, first stanza I used: Now you’re mine, so do not “hurry” first verse, second stanza I used: Now you’re mine, come to live in my “dreams” first verse, third stanza I used: Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy “light” forth stanza: Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master forever your destiny safe and without “hurry” “dream” of your dream in the eternity of time filling up with our “light”the shadows of the Universe… Notice the words used to change the lines created to make different starts for each stanza are remarked. you must use those words in the following order to make sense and create the last stanza: The first verse, first stanza word matches with a word in the second verse, fourth stanza the first verse, second stanza word matches with a word in the third verse, fourth stanza the first verse, Third stanza word matches with a word in the fourth verse, fourth stanza. __________ now the poem read like this: Now you’re mine, so do not hurry take your time on my bosom while the skyline is dawning and the birds spin out their destiny Now you’re mine, come to live in my dreams life brought you to me with certainty mounted on its invisible fugitive wings at this Alhambra that I built for you Now you’re mine, give me the gift of thy light your hands are not blind to my body and your lips are not foreign to my taste I am fire you wear and take you to my heart Now you’re mine, and am no longer but your master forever your destiny safe and without hurry dream of your dream in the eternity of time filling up with our light the shadows of the Universe… ___________ the 4th stanza is the major problem to resolve but once you crack it, should finally read like this other poem: When we are… When we are eternal, we are airborne taking flight on my trembling feathers a faint act of faith that leaped forward to reach a desired height and then stop When we are eternal, we are stillness whispering divine Argos of ice and fire the innerspring of ardent voices to the wind beyond the veils of tranquil warm nights When we are eternal, we are vacuum absorbed by lucid inequities and mute faces lost in the emptiness of space untamed in the absence of Sunlight, airless drowning When we are eternal, we are timeless airborne souls, we are not extinguished within the stillness of immortal darkness nailed deep into the vacuum of the sky…. Gavriel Navarro© 2012 ___________________ The purpose of the form is displayed at the last stanza and I believe this formula opens a channel to the subconscious… Have fun if you decide to try!nondisclosed_email@example.com (libramoon)Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:04:19 +0000