KENNETH KHANH DU is
I. THE FATHER OF MODERN POETRY
II. FOUNDER OF COMPOSITE SCENA
(The Search for Synergism - a new movement in art!)
III. Has Defined Love!
Love is defined as a union between two independent people who have come together for mutual progress and spiritual growth.
(It is neither a dependent nor complementary relationships where one person needs the other to feel whole.)
IV. DISCOVER THE DU PARTICLE
(The Du Particle is the smallest subatomic particle! It oscillates between two dimensions and returns to occupy not necessarily the same subsequent space. A new theory for subatomic activity.)
V. Devise the Theoretical One Act, Six Acts, & Antipremise for Playwrighting
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KENNETH KHANH DU HAS BEATEN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IN SONNET BY WRITING 155 SONNETS ON SEPT. 26, 2008!!!
(I've started writing on June 1, 2008)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WROTE 154 SONNETS DURING HIS LIFETIME.
200 SONNETS WRITTEN IN 5 MONTHS SPAN!!!
(So far I, Kenneth Khanh Du, have written
200 De Novo Sonnets plus 47 Modern English Haikus
between June 1 to October 30, 2008.)
Shakespeare's sonnet consists of 14 lines in iambic pentameter;
my De Novo Sonnets are longer & more complex -
18 lines in iambic hexameter!
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FUTURE PLAN:
"PEN & SWORDS" by mid November!
Although I am not anywhere near to master Shakespeare's playwriting ability, still I aspire to reach the acclaimation of his "Romeo & Juliet" with my "Pen & Swords" - 120pgs screenplay and poem!
In honor of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The characters will be loosely base on the British Royal Family.
Synopsis: A magical fable about the many battles - fought, won, loss - to defend a kingdom testing honor, courage, loyalty, and devotion, and finding answers to the uncertain often rhetorical question: Is the pen really mightier than the sword? (vice versa, or are the two synonymous in the right hands?)
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"CLUB KNIGHT" represents a collection of 61 poems & prose from my recent project based on the nightlife - events, bars and clubs of Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - and under the following categories: I. The Absence of Colour and II. The Presence of Colour.
Price $14.50
Currently under revision
I accept personal check, money order, and cash in envelope. Include $3.00 for shipping. Autograph & personal message - please include additional $3.
Send payment to: K. Du, 1959 Tres Picos Dr,Yuba City, CA 95993,USA
***For ALL OTHER SALES inquiry, email me at [email protected].
***For MORE PHOTOS of paintings, pens & writing accessories for sale, click on "Pics" on the left side of screen!***
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FATHER OF MODERN POETRY
Modern Poetry currently comprised of Symphonic Poetry, Progressive Poetry, Modern English Haiku, Modified Ghazal, De Novo Sonnet, Contemporary Ballad, Pivotal Prose, Multivoice Poems, Didactic Poems, Premetric Poetry, Confucian Poetry, Obscuro Poems, New Alliterative Verse, and Spatial Division Form. These new form of writings were devised by Khanh Du, who is regarded as the Father of Modern Poetry. Khanh is also the brainchild of "Composite Scena: The Search for Synergism", a new movement for the arts!
***For more info, click on specific blog links (view more) above.***
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Private Gathering Sonnet
Stream of words flowing in my mind as I trace roots
Of their nuances and fragments along rose spurs
The thought of you, goddess, décor this painter's roof
Words spin and bounce around your perfect curvatures
I am alone even at the hippest event
Without you competing for the most eventful
With you, competing for attention, to befriend
You make my words spin round and round oh lovely fleur!
Like a perpetual calendar automating
On you, for you, to your commands, hitherto wait
For togetherness, away from cyberspace thing,
Away from animadversion of magnet baits
What awaits a seductress but the beast of bards,
The lumpenproletariat of sexual fire,
The faunal safflower that adorn your hair bar,
Hear ye brethren, your animism of desire
Not enough have been said to bemuse not enough,
Here I sit, wait, write for thee until my blood coughs!
Clowning Crown
I made you laugh, don’t
I made you angry, make me
Cry from laughters, you
Comfort
Me with my blues, skirt
Things about me you should, grow
Know what I want, fool
Juggle
11/1/08
(Modern English Haiku - 5/7/5/2 syllables in repetition)
"Clowning Crown" haiku is also a multivoice poem: two voices or dialogue chasing each other.
Splicing Terse
Some ram body if
The terror rip fix gate shun
Abs breed vie ate it
Safe be
Hell lead cop terse burst
In vied oh lens! Just tis blame
Cash so tease drunk chap
Purse roam.
11/6/08
"Splicing Terse" haiku consists of a poem within a poem achieved by splicing unit of sounds! In all of poetry history, no poet has achieved this!
Somebody terrific ramification {1st & 2nd lines}
Abbreviated {3rd line}
Sappy {4th line}
Helicopter burst {5th line}
In violence! Justice blame {6th line}
Casualties - drunk chaperon {7th & 8th lines}
Adlib Gesture
Thither shadow puppets theater fair maiden meet.
Hitherto hoi polloi follow what fun movements.
Mime crew open shadow cage, hares escape on feet.
Mimes with puppets kidding around with you have vent.
Thereafter airy acrobats attempt to leap
Thereto from play to show place in theater so dare!
Contours of props pop on stage made halo with cheaps.
Couture crop fun shades; dancers reap display of flair.
Hoitytoity clappers cheer beyond the curtain
Posy wish. The dissident riffraff craft silly!
Garble the moves, your dillydally dance person!
Garb gobble grooves upon mute play seldom jaunty!
Delightful extempore caress inviting shades
Delirious colorless shades clowning gesture
Outrageous finger rolls skip chop kick stage drops bait
Courageous hook and sinker long poll, shindig purr!
Fairest maiden skimping on garb, she has not oust.
Fairer rest lady wish bob my top hat, wow ouch!
10/8/08
("Adlib Gesture" is a combination of several devices: De Novo Sonnet, triplet ties, Symphonic, with a progressing algorithm rhyme scheme which hasten the romantic courtship!
A truly amalgamated poem! This one took me longer than 2 hrs to write! Enjoy!
:-)Kenneth
Triplet Ties - is my concept of three repetitive consonants or vowels of words to create continuity, rhyme, and/or alliteration of sounds.
For example, "airy acrobats attempt"
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Tweaking the Infinite Loop
Two lips parted at the perfect moment
Hairs sheen just right under the artificial lights and gels
The smooth trajectory on the camera
Algorithmic movements in "touchy feely" space and swanky time
Skyrocketing the transcranial magnetic stimulation
The silver particles bombarding us
Shattering our image of the fallen
Faces into smithereens
Dazzlers on turntablism and screen
The hype machine goes mellow
One Palindromic Revival Band
Reviver.
Now test set won.
Pop god nin dog pop.
Live not on evil.
Deified Eva did I dwell. Lewd I did ave! Deified.
Devolved Eve live. Evil Eve devolved!
Evil did I dwell; lewd I did live.
Reviled did I live, said I, as evil I did deliver.
Won't I panic in a pit now?
Won't lovers revolt now?
Deleveled madam, deleveled!
PCR. RCP.
E. vile, live!
PCR. RCP.
K. sir, R risk!
Palindrome (n) is defined as a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward (e.g. rotator).
(from "CLUB KNIGHT" Part I: The Absence of Colour - visit blogs for more!)
DIGITAL DETRITUS
Raunchy lyrics to a diva striking vogue
Amalgamated pixels of dimbles and blushes
Tube screened lipstick marks where from chaotic loud speakers
Mission: To preoccupy my time with someone, something
Night rancid and young, tender is the sound
Of chatters mixed with oomph and bottles' butting
Spiral movements on the acid staircase - astoundingly rude
Bounded in reverse. Eclipse of taste
Aesthetic bludgeoning of 24/7 animation
Actions on those unbreakable leather loungers
Colorful spotters strobed her grooves on the platform
Slithering lathe of heat on a bronze beach
Resounding vibes on a deeper cut
And the shore doth not discriminate
The bastion of numbers and potentials
Exciting my fear; amplifying my dearest
(From "CLUB KNIGHT" Part II: The Presence of Colour - visit blog for more!)
Bush & His Merrymen
Bush! Dick here. Don't you buy!
Yep. Not another of them barrel!
Housewives on strike cuz of Iraq.
Ah...trip to the Virgin Islands!
So just your retirement eh?
How's your pacemaker? Aching?
My father served the North and South
Collateral damage fell short?
Not on your kingdom my old knight
Who's been poked & jabbed to coil
Latest tale: No more new taxes!
No more army, opec, kid's tail!
(Written in the form of New Alliterative Verse which have 5 set parameters defined by me. View my blog on the Father of Modern Poetry for a detail explanation.)
Whenever I...
Whenever I see you crossing, I want to hear your footsteps against
Whenever I am near you, I want to feel you hair brushing against
Whenever I hear you, I want to inspire your breath against
Whenever I try to speak to you, I am loss for words amongst
Whenever I try to make love to you, I am hindered by words amongst
Whenever I want you by my side, our lives break as I try against
Whenever I need you, you leave me in the end amongst
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Below is an excerpt from "ORPHEUS & EURYDICE":
IV. The Fatal Glance
Orpheus enters the underworld in search of Eurydice.
Yours or mine to part this life with
Triteness ends all tales
The Stygian realm of countless souls
I search
As my life flickers with the candlewick
I bled my heart into this lyre
I gladly tear it out to replace your beats
Your fleeting beats
Beckoning the underworld to show us pity
For Persephone of Hades I’d played
Let our union pass
Into the unknown you have followed
You breathe. I breathe
Your Dryad’s words
I am willing to expire for
Remember those lyrics
As my eagerness ended the song
A tragic duet vanished before the mouth of the sepulcher
In an insomniac state of languidness
My morose plucks
The thousands upon thousands of pins-and-needles
Stabbing at my soles, into my head, then through my heart
Awaken me from my morbid dream
Tonight, the venomous viper betrayed Aristaeus,
It has told of a wrongful courtship
Eurydice remains true to her vows.
She is waiting for me in the underworld,
Among the lost souls.
(The rest of this poem is found in Father of Modern Poetry blog under "Progressive Poetry" )
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TREATISE ON COMPOSITE SCENA:
The Search for Synergism!
Composite Scena is The Ism of -isms: No schools, styles of art, or periodic movements - spanning as well as exemplifying from Old Masters to Modern Masters - are off limit to Composite Scena artists!
The Composite Scena artists aim at producing "synergism" between the written poetic language and the visual language from painting, sculpture, etc.
In Theory,
According to the New Oxford Dictionary, synergism is defined as the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects: the synergy between artist and record company.
At best, this definition of synergism only hints at what I am trying to get at. It sounds moronic, that the collaboration between artist and recording company produces synergism. Of course they do. How can one survived without the other? And the music produced from a successful band will reap exponential fame and fortune for both parties. My desired synergism will result in a work of art that is extensive in interpretation and expansive in relation to the confined compositional physicality of the painted canvas, but without losing the sight of the intended scenario.
The followings are mathematical illustrations of the exponential, additive power of Composite Scena:
1 painting = critics' finite review + laymen perception
1 poem = critics' finite review and readers' limited interpretation
1 painting + 1 poem = infinite critical and laymen interpretations
without loss to the basic story (if combine properly)
Below is a more basic model:
1 painting + 1 painting = 2 paintings
1 poem + 1 poem = 2 poems
1 painting + 1 poem = 4 paintings + 4 poems **
In essence, each schematic painting and its poetic accompaniment, together, will portray a scenario, narrative, or story immeasurable in both simplicity and complexity as pertain to the compositional piece: You will perceive those things not clear or not seen when viewing the painting and poem together while not losing sight of the shore!
Styles of art have come and go from Gothic, The Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rubenism & Rococo, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism - with its respective branching of Symbolism, Divisionism, and Fauve and German Expressionism - Cubism and off-shoot Orphism, Futurism, Vorticism, Rayonnism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Neo-Plasticism, Dada and Surrealism, and then the more modern Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Art, in a broader sense, builds upon the preceding generation of artists who simultaneously both borrowed and revolted against their predecessors and colleagues.
Composite Scena neither borrowed nor revolted against these milestones, rather this new path strives to embrace the past, the present, and the future. Composite Scena serves as a unifying theory to bridge methodologies and enhance understandings while opening new doors to the interpretations of compositional art form: poetry and painting and the endless combinations thereof.
Composite Scena as a movement reflects the classical traditions and academia in both literatures and arts; yet it does not neglect nor dismiss the mobility and openness of the 21st Century to encompass the forever, mass expansion of the Information Age and our technologically driven society and their new takes and perceptions on modern art.
The Early Days Revisited,
Composite Scena as a theory took over ten years to develop, from early '90s inception and experimentation, into a functional methodology - the compulsory drive for synergism in both the subjective and objective natures of art (with the unintended exploration of the artist as the omnipotent composer of defined physical space yet devoid of cognitive boundaries.)
Composite Scena was the brainchild of Khanh Du. He is a painter, poet, writer, philosopher, doctor, and an aspiring film director. Khanh also goes by the nickname of Kenneth. Most of his artistic works are signed with his penname, Du Observare. Khanh began writing at the early age of ten. He subsequently pursued painting and drawing a few years later. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University; his Medical Doctorate from SHSU School of Medicine; and his Certificate to Filmmaking from New York Film Academy.
Many of his earlier synergistic works were done on locations, e.g. the experimental paintings and sculptures realized during the clinical elective period of medicine. These works were subsequently donated to the hospitals and their institutions in hope of sharing and expanding on a new idea(s): an innovative approach to the perception of art in medicine.
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THE DU PARTICLE
Can my new theory conceived while sitting under
A tree waiting for apple to drop on my head
Works? We do have particles accelerator
Rings buried in Illinois and Switzerland; fed
With an incredible amount of power to
Run; can line up, collide particles at best mark
The speed of light! Will these billions dollars a do
Collisions produce the calculative chaos
During creation of the universe? Big Bang?
The Du Particle is the smallest particle.
It oscillates between two dimensions - with rank? -
And not necessarily through the same void or hole
Or dimensions when re-entering. Lining up
The Du particles will create a hole which
Cheat time and distance by folding space! Tell space club
That time does not wait, travel does not shorten with
Time. Imagine an accelerator in the
Palm of your hand! One press and you've reach the outer..!
9/10/08 (Based on my theory of the smallest particle in the subatomic world)
Sending ROBO I to Another Dimension
The year is 5056. Are you
Ready my son? I’m about to engage the Ring
Accelerator. “Yes father. I think so.†Crew?
“I know so.†Milestone! You hear me! What you’re doing
Will revolutionize the travel industry
For years to come! “Father.†The navigational
Coordinates set? “Father! Will I ever see thee
Again?†Yes! My million dollars genobot soul!
You are my prodigal son! Commence sequence. Now!
“I will miss you father! The mind reasons the heart!â€
What’s the distance from the Virgo Cluster? Somehow
He’d land 2.5326 MLY! Part
Of him in the Virgo Cluster; part of him in
Nearby Spiral Galaxy! Son can you hear me?
“Yes father. I am here.†Son! “I’ve succeeded in
Seeing passing suns, in making contact for thee…
But I’ve failed. I’ve failed to return. I’ve failed you sir.
I will fail as son…me to be…frail…ail…frather.
9/21/08
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FILM PROJECT PROPOSAL - "The Return of Miss Julie"
Pitch & Synopsis:
Unbeknownst to the world, Julie has a twin sister who was sent by her eccentric mother shortly after Julie's birth to live with her relatives in France and Spain. After 40 years, she returns to claim her inheritance. Can the cycle of unrequited love be broken?
Alf Sjoberg's "Miss Julie"
Dear Miss Julie:
Discord has cursed the love for you.
Am I to be the servant who rescued you from disdain?
Through the lens lies a world in distress, more lavish
Beyond the imagination of any restless viewers
Aching for a different ending to calm your midsummer thirst
To the pallid innocent of free love, the muse for free expression
Our attention diverted to something uniquely grandiose
The power of restraint focused upon the image of a fair maiden
Flailed love canvasses on this bountiful land
Dutiful discord has cursed the love for you!
My eyes constantly specked on flints and fine grains
My daymares of doing unspeakable harm to your illicit lover
Childhood sweethearts? The well crested disillusionment to be
Destiny seem to encompass our world through converging lens
And the squall of drenched air reclining over the festival of jaunts
Reminding me, us, sincere you of all the isolated lovers abound
Why does love heed, stricken, when love is meant to be free?
Discord has cursed the love for you.
Old umbrella to protect our love from the midnight rain
What to become of love when love fails to provide meaning?
We, the audience, must popcorn the salt and the butter
As sweetness hitched a ride after the second act
On a doom's train destine for a fatal choice under question
And the image of rebellious youths, louder than love, therewit answers:
Discord has cursed the love for you!
5/9/08
(Written in the form of a prose with "Discord has cursed the love for you" serving as the recurrent theme. Alf Sjoberg's "Miss Julie" is a form of Pivotal Prose: a cross between poetry and prose. Prose, unlike poetry, varies greatly in rhythm and resembles more of everyday speech. Pivotal Prose has a recurrent theme that must be address in each stanza or paragraph to move the prose along.)
