So I just got myself The Tarot Playbook, which I've had my eye on for a while seeing as how I generally quite like doing out of the box type exercises with my tarot cards. I decided to start off my just opening to a random page, which got me one called "How Do I Love Thee". Basically, the assignment is to pick a court card (I drew one randomly), find four traits you like most about them, choose four adjectives to go with each trait, and then compose a love poem for the court using those adjectives. I am very much not a love poem type person: not from the reading end of things (newest poetry book, which I got along with this tarot book, focuses largely on Armenian Genocide...) and especially not from the writing end, so a challenge indeed. I don't think this is quite lovey but, well ;]
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youthful rider:
offbeat, always confident -
silly, or focused?
we wonder, stare
at red robes so fiery,
royal and long
and yet your horse is winking.
how can you be the charming
knight with a hat so rounded?
can valour controlled
be so full of color?
perhaps it does not matter.
it has always enchanted us -
oddity, the knowing smirk.
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offbeat, always confident -
silly, or focused?
we wonder, stare
at red robes so fiery,
royal and long
and yet your horse is winking.
how can you be the charming
knight with a hat so rounded?
can valour controlled
be so full of color?
perhaps it does not matter.
it has always enchanted us -
oddity, the knowing smirk.
2 comments:
Well, I think that's lovely! I may have to pick up this Tarot Playbook! Please write a review of it soon! :)
It probably won't be as fancy/formal as some 'proper' reviews, but I will definitely post about my impressions once I get a better sense of the book :]
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