Turquoise Monster

At the beginning we were like snow flakes

Elegant and bueatiful

Slowely drifting through the sky

We landed on the ground

Blanketing all in pure white

Rainbows glinted off of us

But then we lay and they trod upon is

Changing us into dirty slush

Dangerous, slippery

A trap for the unweary

Icicles grew and punctured us

Bleeding out the joy

Drops fell from us

What was once apart of us

Compounded, compacted

We became transparent

All that had been bauetiful and intrinsic

Turned to a refracted invisibility

Yet warm hearts lurked benieth

A hard ician shell – to a delicate world

We still survived

Until the pressure of each blow

Growing nearer the middle

Then we cracked and we splintered

Fractured beyond repair

Moving apart

Leaving an abyss of darkness

Blistering cold to the skin

We no longer touched

Just drifted away

To melt alone

On seperate distant shores

Well it is the end of NaPoWriMo and I have again got more than 30 poems all of which need looking at and sort and maybe cough throwing away!

I really like these writing challenges they really help get me going.

Anyway the blog will now be back to weekly posts 🙂

One of the things I have been doing this month has been to generate art from art adn I like slightly off beat things so my husband showed me the Miltos Manetas Collection which belongs to some artist guy he sees in London. I loved the collection and decided it was perfect to use as poetic inspiration – unfortunately not all of it works on my sadly dying laptop but those I could see/play around with I have constructed poems from – not all visual poems but mainly.

Once I have a fixed laptop I will do the rest of them and in prodding around on the interwebs I like some of his own work which I may use for inspiration in itself.

For WoPoWriMo back in February my friend did the whole month by writing from paintings – this seems like a really good idea to me and I may well do that for the next Poem a Day challenge!

I have also been mucking about with what I think of as ‘cross word’ poems and ones where you just write the sentences from the first letter – these again are very much visual and I have been attempting to combine them with a concept I came up with which is the Code Poem.

I’ve found that most of these have been about the environment, global warming and human impact on our planet – I think this maybe because my little girl is doing A Planet in Peril at school and we have been reading a lot around the subject.

I quiet like doing these poems as I sort of see them as possible teaching aids or things for ads etc… Once I made the pictures that these poems really are I will post them on here!

I have actually been spending most of this month creating a set of visual poems which I am calling Putting a Face to the Name Poems – I literally create a face out of a persons name and it is harder than it sounds!

I need to do the finials of these before I can really show them on here!

Wizzen broken monkey
Skin grey
Wrinkeled crepe paper
Downey whiskers
Sharpe dowdy white
In striped pajarmers
Convict of the ward
On death row
Drowning in food
A mistake
A cull?
Tortured
by those who save
Broken ribs
From pumping you out
Cracked lips
From resusitation
Now blue
Eyes revolve
As a horse in panic
They can not save you
They can’t now
But they did not want to
Did they?

I mentioned before that I’d written a poem for an anthology I was trying to get into – well the poem Where Are You has been accepted 🙂 It can be seen here on the Year Zero Writers Blog and I believe it is avaliable in some e-reader format from Amazon too 🙂

I was asked to write a poem about Edith Piaf the French singer who sang during the second world war ect… This I suppose was the first time I have been commissioned to write a poem and I found it easier than I thought. Before when I went through a phase of entering competitions I found it hard to write something in the time frame on a given subject or in a given form. If it was an open competition I tended to do quiet well but if not I handed in the lamest things ever.

But Edith’s life was so full of the extraordinary that I had the shape of a poem before I had even finished reading all the information about her!

Plus I think thanks to attending poetry events and taking part in the poetry challenges such as WoPoWriMo and NaPoWriMo I am beginning to be able to polish poems in a far shorter time span than before. I hope they are still of the same sort of quality. It’s not that there are more poems being written by me its just there’s more on subjects I am willing to share. Mind due the subjects I am willing to share has increased as well!

The other thing about this poem was that I read it out to a room of mostly elderly people who were there for the music – the organiser was worried when I showed her it as it contains words like Hoar but I refused to take them out and the reaction of the audience told me I had made the right decision. Even the singer was asking for a copy of it!

I am probably going to be reading it out at a few similiar events at other points in the year too which is exciting (at least for me!).

Pale Segmentation
Acidic Wheel
Fizz
Discolouring
Icy Dark
Drink

Beginnings – times when the balance shifts
As the chaos of annilahation settles to new order
A beginning
Never the beginning
A wheel turning with star strewn spokes
Twisting renewal into death pangs
Stretching the twilight distinction
Between the two
A change of form
A change of state
Beginning? End? Transformation
The same from different angles
viewed
Misconstrewed as distinct
Life from decay, decay from life
Beginnings rearrange that is all.