I’ve started writing poetry again. It’s been about a year or so since I seriously wrote poetry, but after last semester’s creative writing course, I decided it was high time that I start writing again. I’ll be experimental, crossing hairs with poetry and prose poetry (perhaps some flash fiction shoved in there).
I’m not sure what I’ll call it when I’m done, but I’ll worry about that at the end. So far the pieces that have been written (and are in the process of being edited) are “Evidence,” a piece of Ekphrasis prose poetry, and it’s sister “Father, Son, Holy Spirit.” Both pieces are based on Marilyn Manson’s artwork (”Someone should put hearts over her eyes” and “Trismegistus“). However, are not tied in anyway to the portraits. They brought out memories of sex with our love and being raised Catholic.
I suppose the whole tie in would be my life as Christ (oh good lord, he’s being blasphemous–I say get used to it!). My life is on a runaway train and I need to sit down and write something before my mind explodes with all the shit I’ve been reading.
The poetry will be factual, but told in slant. I want to do this and make it my project to work on for the rest of the year. Hopefully after all the shit I’ll write, I’ll have at least twenty good pieces of poems, ten good prose poems, and one or two flash fiction. After that, I’ll sort them out and see what goes and what doesn’t. I’d also like to publish it online, rather than have a hard copy, but that’ll be much later on. I’ll have to find someone who is good with Flash and then we’ll see. Not only that, but have to find a reviewer/editor and work closely with them before I make a fool of myself for all to see.
I’ll post a few rough drafts here as .jpgs, but we’ll see.
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