Good day everyone. I hope you always find something that can be used not only when writing your last article, but also when looking at the world. I believe poetry is nothing more than really looking at the world and just saying what they see. In a way, it sounds like science. You look at the world, you look at it, you say what you see. By saying this in a poem, you create little worlds. So, Ayun, BRUHA. What is that? A witch?
In English, witch. Here in the Philippines there are many terms related to the word witch: witch, sorcerer. But I feel like no one will catch what the witch wants to say. The witch comes from the Spanish word BRUHA from women who practice witchcraft or sorcery. There are men too. But according to some of the people I read about Latin American women's "Bruha feminism," the community has a higher and more powerful view of Brujos, while Bruha is more malicious. In the Philippines, the most powerful organisms are babaylan or catalon, which can be female or male. They are the healers, the passersby of local wisdom, and the mediators of man and God. As an epic storyteller and a religious guardian, I believe Babaylan was the first poet of the Philippines.
When the Spaniards arrived, they had to determine who was bad and who was good, because the two opposing forces were always good and bad in Christianity. If you are angry just admit and you will be kind. The Spaniards also had to define what was "woman" and what was "man", as the sexes were also seen as two opposing forces. The colonialists were very binary. A woman should be like Mother Mary, a virgin, a shy mother. Man is like God the Father. Influential Spanish women like Babaylan are unacceptable to the Spanish. So they were called witches. For the Spanish colonialists, witchcraft is synonymous with spirit, witch and malice.
I really like the witch character. For me, it was not what society rejected or rejected. Instead, he walks away and gets rejected. He decided that he did not need another person, the world.
That he can make his world. I think that's what the witches do in my book. Writing poetry as a woman is a form of brazeria, or witchcraft. So the first part of the collection. If you've noticed, Witch has three parts, and each part opens with an epigraph - just three Emily Dickinson poems I've found on witchcraft. Why Emily Dickinson? Emily Dickinson is, for me, a Lodi witch. He was a recluse who wrote over a thousand poems, all powerful. Contemporary green poet Ellies once called Coven, Emily is "the shy white witch of Amherst".
I wrote about the witches in the story in the first part. They had Adam's first wife, Lilith; Lot's wife, the biblical pioneer; The old woman and the owl in the old European story; si Sheherazade, narrator of a thousand and one nights; Louis Bourgeois, one of the first scientific midwives and the birth of King Louis XIV;
An anonymous French artist in the 18th century, when women were not enrolled in art school; Adelada Paterno, embroidered with her hair, because fine arts were not available to women artists at the time; “The Old Age of Boots in the English Nursery Rhyme; Elsie Wright and Francis Griffiths make elaborate deceptions about fairies. Arthur Conan Doyle, who discovered the most rational and scientific character in English literature, was also convinced by this cousin.
For our purposes today, the representative poem in this section is "Alto es el día", one of the first poems I wrote for Bruha. Before the witch, I was thinking about what the next placement project would be. I thought about playing with words. We know that words are short and full of affirmations. I'd like to see if I can squeeze out two halves of the word. In this case it doesn't work.
But it just shows how strong our writing is. Anyway, at first I came up with the saying: "Anyone who does not look back at the origin cannot reach the destination." And the first thought on the subject related to this saying was the story of Lot's wife in the Bible, who turned into crumbled salt.
The second part. In this part I played in form, in the mathematics of words, in geometry.
I founded Concord with Emily Dickinson Letters by Cynthia Mackenzie and Penny Gilbert. What is compatibility? This is a book or document that lists the alphabets of words used in a book or author's work, with information on where the words can be found and in which sentences.
In this book, the authors list all the lines of Emily Dickinson's letters that contain specific words.
These words ("headwords"), from "Aaron" to "Sounds", are defined based on the frequency with which they are referred to in the letters. Synchronization is based on a collection of ED characters, edited by TH Johnson and first published in 1958 by Belknap Press.
