I would have stood upon the mount and given her a wicker-weave-wedding-ring. That’s not exactly true. It was her grandmother’s engagement ring, and I had plans to conspire with her mother to get it re-sized for her fingers. She always said family was important to her. Smile like too-green-days, ‘n smell like spring-in-bloom. She was …
Continue reading “When you’re in love, you’re in love with a person. I learned this the hard way.”
So, yesterday Renarrate asked me what I meant by saying punctuation can be powerful, so we’re going to look at one of my old Haiku poems. I was ridiculously infatuated with E. E. Cummings at the time (still am to a degree), and was absolutely blown over with my own cleverness. I’ve since realized that …
Tumblr, you and I need to have a talk. But Stephen, what do we need to talk about? Also, we are Legion. I’m gonna sideline that last comment, but you might want that looked at. We need to talk about poetry, or to be more specific, we need to talk about love poems. I’ve been …
Continue reading “Talking about why love poems are boring, and why they don’t have to be.”
Kayla Ancrum answered a question here that inspired this whole thing. The crux of the question is “How do you write poems?” Poetically, I could say to write poems your swish around all the roiling emotions you’ve got sloshing around inside you and spit them up into perfectly worded lines and metaphors, but that wouldn’t …
