Or “Imagined Love”/poetrymanuscript in progress (slow progress, I might add)! Observe my work come to life, each poem with its many revisions.
It’s been sometime since I wrote a poem or posted a blog entry. My mentor gave me an assignment to use the “triggering subject” of hands. I often wonder where the words come from. But here they are, straight from my pen to paper to computer-honest to God, I’ve made …
What “triggers” your writing? For me, it can be a movie, a book, a photograph, a map, a memory. But, often, it can simply be a word. Last Spring, in a writing workshop, the word I chose for a triggering subject was silence. If I hadn’t been interrupted, perhaps I …
I’ve gotten through another weekend. I’ve learned if I can get through another lonely Friday night, weekends can be momentous. Thank God for sisters. My sister came to my rescue Friday night and we did what we do best together-played slots (while listening to great music (Soul Tight Committee, http://www.soultight.com/schedule.html). …
Here I go again, sharing a first draft of a poem, letting it go before the fear of releasing it can claim it to a drawer, a computer file, or a wastebasket. And here I go again, writing in the abstract, not being specific about what the poem is about. …
