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During the last six months I have written more than 500 quatrains. Here is a menu of Quatrains by Stephen C. Rose. Here is a menu of just a few of my quatrains.

What is a quatrain. In my book it can be anything that has a poetic aspect and is four lines long. More generally it is four lines in some understandable meter and rhyme.

I do not write quatrains merely to create poetry. I write them because I am a believer in the short form. If I can say what I want in four lines, why write a blog like this?

I see no reason.

I also believe that quatrains can summarize a key point – usually an opinion – just as well as a paragraph or several paragraphs of prose.

I sometimes compose quatrains to a tune because I have been a songwriter for most of my life. If the subject reminds me  of McArthur Park I will write to the meter.

I was never writing to be read/ I wrote to ease my head

And so forth.

Yesterday I wrote a quatrain to express a fairly fine point in philosophy relating to semiotics and Derrida’s declension of Peirce. It raises my own solution to the question under discussion:

It is called “Mind Over Sign”.

I say to the sign man Sir please say
Could the mind not start and stop a sign
And if a sign might simply be a word
Could not a word transcend all time

I do not punctuate my quatrains. I write them on news. On philosophy. On theology. And so forth.

If you would like a slant on the day, I would invite you to bookmark my Associated Content profile page for a daily selection of short form writing, mostly quatrains and brief topical slideshows featuring my own art.

Better yet, if you have a desire to write and earn a tiny amount or somewhat more in relationship as you desire with other writers, then join Associated Content as my affiliate and I will try to be of assistance.

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Simply click here and sign up to earn a living on every word you write. You can earn small micropayments and control what you do entirely or you can write on assignment and earn from a little to a little more to even a little more than that.

It is access to having your work posted on Yahoo’s well trafficked network of sites.

It may also give you a postion on a survivor as the Web continues to become the province of big players.

It is an evolution beyond blogging.

 

Schmooze My Profile Page

This is an open invitation to all to schmooze my  profile at Yahoo Contributor Network aka Associated Content.

Why?

Because it represents a model for anyone who believes as I do that eventually most people will be paid via the Web and that most of what is transacted will be transacted on line. In such a world the only way to get paid is via a system of micropayment that is keyed to factors that are largely impossible to calibrate on a blog. I moved to Associated content for precisely this reason.

But it was hardly the only or most important reason.

I wanted a place where I could, over time, organize my work and make it easily searchable. There is no better platform for this than my  profile page.

I also made the move to gain traffic for my posts. I would estimate that over all traffic has doubled.

This is not a huge advance relatively speaking, but it is progress.

So please schmooze my profile and leave a comment here to tell me what you think.

Cheers!