The "Changes" cycle of poems is complete (Index to the Changes Poems)

I first started these poems on March 19, 2006. At first, it was hard not to write the other poems. And then it became an obsession. Thirteen months later—last night, in fact—I finished No. 64, the last one.

This cycle of poems is loosely based on the 64 hexagrams of the I-ching (along with some of their commentaries). I mainly used the Wilhelm-Baynes translations, although I sometimes consulted a couple of others, like Legge's. Some of them were written in one sitting, and others germinated for weeks (usually when I was stuck).

One of my favorite parts of doing All This Is That has been the series: the paintings and bios of all the Presidents of the Unites States; the 50 heroes and villains paintings; and the long-running Alien Lore series (which I have yet to actually index...if you want to see them, this G.I.S. seems to capture most of them. At least fifteen of these are among my favorite poems I've written in the last couple of years. I am done, and now I feel freed up, and can go back to writing about whatever strikes me at the moment. That will be either liberating, or spooky. We'll find out soon.

Index of the Changes Poems:

Changes One/Action
Changes Two/The Receptive
Changes Three/Trouble Ahead
Changes Four/The Young Shoot
Changes Five/The waiting
Changes Six/Conflict
Changes Seven/The Army
Changes Eight/Holding Together
Changes Nine/The taming power of the small
Changes Ten/treading
Changes Eleven/Peace
Changes twelve/standing still
Changes 13/Fellowship
Changes 14/Possession
Changes 15/The Armies Of The Night
Changes 16/Enthusiasm, or, the king begins to falter
Changes 17/Following
Changes 18/Fixing what has spoiled
Changes 19/The Approach
Changes 20/Contemplation
Changes 21/Biting Through
Changes 22/Grace
Changes 23/Splitting Apart
Changes 24/The Turning Point (for S.A.D.)
Changes 25/The Unexpected
Changes 26/The Taming Power of the Great
Poem: Changes 27/Taking Care
Poem: Changes 28/ Ta Kuo—Preponderance of the Great
Poem: Changes 29/The Abysmal
Poem: Changes 30/Clinging
Poem: Changes 31/Influence
Poem: Changes 32/Duration
Poem: Changes 33/Retreat Is Not Surrender—
Poem: Changes 34/ The Power of the Great
Poem: Changes 35/Progress
Poem: Changes 36/How to keep moving in the darkening of the light
Poem: Changes 37/ The Family
Poem: Changes 38/Opposition
Poem: Changes 39/Obstruction
Poem: Changes 40/Deliverance
Poem: Changes 41/Decrease
Poem: Changes 42/Increase
Poem: Changes 43/Breakthrough!
Poem: Changes 44/Coming to Meet
Poem: Changes 45/Gathering Together (a/k/a population explosion)
Poem: Changes 46/Pushing Upward
Poem: Changes 47/Exhaustion
Poem: Changes 48/The Well
Poem: Changes 49/Revolution
Poem:: Changes 50/The Caldron
Poem: changes 51/The Arousing
Poem: Changes 52/Keeping Still
Poem: Changes 53/Gradual Progress
Poem: Changes 54/Marrying Maiden
Poem: Changes 55 /Fullness
Poem: Changes 56/The Wanderer
Poem: Changes 57/The Gentle
Poem: changes 58/Progress
Poem: Changes 59/Dispersion
Poem: Changes 60/Limitation
Poem: Changes 61/ Inner Truth
Poem: Changes 62/Preponderance of the Small
Poem: Changes 63/After Completion
Poem: Changes 64/Before Completion
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