creativeFeed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's genre is nature. I am especially looking for:
* settings
* imagery
* themes
* events
* poetic forms
But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have the first edition of Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms which covers most common and many obscure forms.
I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. The rest will go into my archive for magazine submission.
December 17 2007, 23:09:51 UTC 13 years ago
One of my roses had a large pink bud on it. I let it stay, hoping I would have one last rose of summer, unexpectedly in December. But it never bloomed; it's a dot of bright pink wilting on the end of a dark wet rose vine, in the snow.
Meditation based on a play on words:
I have thyme in a bottle on my pantry shelf. Last spring when we planted it, last summer when the parsley threatened to overgrow it, the chill rain of autumn when I cut the last of it before the freeze, all is there, together with the anticipation of stews and roasts all through the coming winter. Fragile dry leaves, crumbling, fragrant.
Form:
Any sort of vining, entwining form with words to match.
December 18 2007, 01:21:41 UTC 13 years ago