{"id":136993044,"date":"2023-09-13T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=136993044"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T12:01:36","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-poetry-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=136993044","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Poetry Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trying out a poetic form for monastic chants.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45b3819b-6566-4df1-8534-23435ab00789_4035x6053.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a fiery source of light and steam reflecting off dark, rippling water.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@wistomsin?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Tom Barrett<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/v5VFOufwArU?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><p>As a syncretic Polytheist, I wanted to challenge myself to write poetry that can also be used as a chant for a deity, rather than sticking with the usual free verse poems and prayers. I do want to practice with Irish poetry forms at some point, but I\u2019m practicing with a shorter form associated with Gaulish Polytheism to get started.<\/p><p>The form is called Sulabaros Tritanuos (three-tongued eloquence), and more information about it and other poetry forms can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/drunemeton.com\/bardoi-poetry-forms\/\">here<\/a>. With it being my flamekeeping shift, I focused on writing one for Brighid. I will write a chant for Nodens soon.<\/p><p>The process reminded me that I should continue to build my creative skills as a devotee. Skills are like muscles that require strength training, since they can become stagnated from lack of use.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brighid\/Brigantia<\/h3><p>Threshold keeper of high acclaim<\/p><p>Flame of kindness golden<\/p><p>Olden waters of life uphold<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out a poetic form for monastic chants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136993044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136993044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136993044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136993044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136993044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136993044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136993044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}