Last week, I used one subject to act as the basis for both my scheduled morning and evening poetry Tweets on the Internet of Words account. The exercise worked pretty well, all told, and as a result I’ll be doing the same thing for next week’s sequences (subject matter to be decided over a cuppa and a low-fat brownie shortly.) What I’m finding most useful, in terms of writing, is having my mind in the same place in terms of the language used. Knowing there is a subject matter allows me to make lists of words that act as starting points, metaphors and similes that can then be used either to build the basis of the work, or as means to act as filler until the correct words appear.
This week is a new benchmark in terms of what brain is capable of producing. These poems came off the back of a pretty fruitful period of work in both fiction and non-fiction too, and it is true what they say about productivity fuelling more of the same.
Change and Grow
Haiku Sequence
This seed inside, small
Start, so strong: germinating,
Life springs from within.
Spark explodes, massive
Detonation, point blossoms
Expanding ripples.
Self doubt evolving
Evaporates, forming vast
Mists of fertile thought.
Condensing clouds drift
Across mental plains, waiting
Ready to hold change.
I am growth, reborn:
Cycle of Fertility
Renewal’s goddess.
Change and Grow
Micropoetry Sequence
Despite fatigue, I push
Understanding to change
Requires a mental strength
That transcends weight of life.
Whatever in my way
Tries to derail, there must
Be pause to think at length.
Grow; seek another path.
I am capable, of
Wondrous things: look beyond
Restrictions understood,
Then quietly cast aside.
My evolution, here
With pencil, pen, pixel
Transcends existing fear:
I can do this, and will.
The only limit, time
My imagination:
Catalyst, creating
Glorious change and growth.
The Internet of Words 