Roberta Writes – A guitar birthday cake, and W3: a San san poem and a rain dance #poetry #photography

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W3 a San san poem

II. Kerfe’s prompt guidelines

  • Thematic (required): Write a poem inspired by-
    1. A song about dancing, or-
    2. A song you like to dance to;
  • Form (required): “San san”.

San san?

The “san san” poetic form has three requirements:

  1. Eight lines;
  2. Rhyming: a-b-c-a-b-d-c-d;
  3. Repetition: Three terms or images in the verse must be repeated 3x each.

I’m late with this post. What can I say, I had a life sized guitar to make this weekend for Michael’s birthday and it didn’t leave much time for other things. I also made Gregory a hummingbird cake for his birthday and I cooked chicken korma for 20 people and made salads and vegetables to go with it.

And now for the poem:

Rain Dance

We must dance to summon the rain

The land is parched; thirsty cattle low

We must dance to appease the gods

It’s not easy to please the gods; they’re vain

We must dance for rain so the rivers flow

The gods always admire our feathers and beads

We twirl and stamp, hitting the ground with rods

When rain comes, we’ll plant life sustaining seeds

Thank you to David for the inspiration: https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/02/07/w3-prompt-93-weave-written-weekly/

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  3. I had a life sized guitar to make this weekend for Michael’s birthday and it didn’t leave much time for other things.

    I am blown away by how talented you are, Robbie. That is amazing.

    Also, wow, that dance is incredible ~ thank you for sharing it!

    And, finally, your poem… what can I say? It’s such a stirring portrayal of the interplay between human ritual and the forces of nature… and I sense such a deep reverence in your verse… ❤

    ~David

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    1. Hi David, I’m glad you like the cake. My mom loved it, she didn’t want it cut. Of course, you can’t keep cake so we did cut it. I thought that dance was fabulous, so graceful. I’m glad you like the poem. It took me ages to find inspiration for a dance theme, but then I remembered the rain dance.

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  21. loved everything about this post: the life-sized guitar cake, the hummingbird cake, that marvellous poem, topped off by that magical rain dance which ended the drought ; so glad I’m a subscriber; thanks Roberta 🙂

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  26. Poetry is so complicated that it makes my head hurt to think about trying, like math. But your result is splendid, Robbie. Not even counting that amazing sounding dinner and two birthdays(?). The guitar cake is the coolest ever — and life-size. You’re amazing. Hugs.

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  30. It’s good to know the gods appreciate a beautiful dance. And I appreciate your san san that reflects the music so well.

    Wonderful cakes! And I love chicken korma. Sounds like an excellent celebration. (K)

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  34. Okay, so now let’s see a red to yellow sunburst, flame maple top guitar, maple neck with Michael inlaid in the neck.
    Just messing with you🤣. Great cakes. Plus chicken and veg for 20? Do you deliver?

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  37. Our first son wanted a red guitar for his fourth birthday ( a toy one he had seen in the Argos catalogue ) so we thought it would be fun making a guitar birthday cake. It certainly did not look like yours Robbie. We kept making more and more red icing to cover it.

    PS My daughter went to her friend’s birthday party when they were in junior school and came home describing how clever her mother was as she had made a fantastic cake. a week later we were in Marks and spencer and she was astonished to see a row of identical cakes on the shelf!

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  41. Robbie, how do you do it all?! I love the poem and wow, the guitar cake is amazing and smiling how you just happened to make a hummingbird one as well this month! Plus all the party food. Belated Happy Birthday to your sons! My son’s is in January and yes, always tricky to work out presents so soon after Christmas.

    The video is wonderful, what great music and dance – and it seems to have worked too! 😀 Many thanks for sharing. xx

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  42. You listed everything you had to do and nearly made me choke. How did you ever get it done???! The cake is amazing, of course. Happy Birthday to the boys (young men now). And the poem came out great for being so complex (yikes). I also enjoyed the video – what a beautiful combination of traditional and ballet dance. And it brought rain! A chock full post, Robbie, and all during tax time! I hope this week gives you a bit of a break.

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    1. Hi Diana, I’m glad you enjoyed this post. Making those cakes was great fun. The guitar was very interesting to make and I learned some new tricks. I was glad I managed to write a poem and that the video went well with it. Everyone is running late this year with their stuff so I think March is going to be absolute chaos. Feb hasn’t been as bad as usual to date.

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  43. where to begin? Each achievement here deserves equal praise. The cake/cakes, the celebration and the happy busy-ness that brought, the exquisite san-san poem, the video: its dancer/the music/its symbolism/its results. Amazing, all.

    a complete post.
    So amazingly lovely. All.
    I also have a February celebrant. So that’s one thing we have in common, Robbie. Congratulations my friend.
    thanks for sharing. Xoxo 💃🏼

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      1. Sample of two. You and Douglas. But it would seem a part of. And maybe elsewhere. Neat anyway. Pushes creativity…. 👏🏻
        (I’m not sure the English have anything similar). I have seen elaborate cakes here in Mexico but very different in style…

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  46. The poem is so urgently perfect.

    Th rain dance incredible….and it rained!

    I’m not sure whether that guitar should be eaten, or played.

    Thank you Robbie! Your post is delightful!

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      1. Ah! That reminds me of the time I helped Mom bake 100 cherry pies for a big event. We baked for days and froze the pies. By some miracle we were able to bake and deliver them on the day. Maybe she had help with that stage. Friends with ovens.

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  50. That guitar cake is amazing Robbie, you are so talented. I loved your poem and thanks for sharing the video of the dance. So intricate and difficult. Amazing.

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