{"id":458,"date":"2022-12-01T12:10:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=458"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:18:34","slug":"structure-of-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/structure-of-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure of a Book<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are only seventeen poems and 27 printed pages; but there are also four sections in Book of the Spirit<\/a><\/em><\/strong>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Introit <\/strong>is something sung at the beginning of a religious service – the section sets the scene, placing reader and writer alike within a world, reminding them of their insignificance, as drops in the grand scheme of things – in the ocean – as they try to understand, and in the case of the writer, try to express the beauty of communication, and thereby of destiny, fate and truth in mere words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I have made no attempt – it was never my intention – to produce a religious or quasi-religious service or order of service in the central section, the Sunyata<\/strong>, the poems do fall within the canon of a service. They do not form a liturgy but rather are a collection of the elements often found in religious services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three poems in Satori<\/strong>, are perhaps the most conventionally religious, and readers will probably recognise the themes\/stories referenced. Perhaps this section might be thought of as equivalent to a sermon, moving the work towards a conclusion by exploring themes in ways that leave the congregation, the readers with something – perhaps enlightenment (which is what Satori means) – to ponder on their way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final section – Apocrypha <\/strong>– contains two poems that are not truly a part of the book of praise but which seemed, to me, to follow on from it – to fit in with the general ethos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are only seventeen poems and 27 printed pages; but there are also four sections in Book of the Spirit! An Introit is something sung at the beginning of a religious service – the section sets the scene, placing reader and writer alike within a world, reminding them of their insignificance, as drops in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44,19,37,46,45,22],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-book-of-the-spirit","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-poetry","tag-praise","tag-religion","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}