Some sneak up, stealthy, furtive, Stalk a poem through wilderness, Nose to wind or cheek to track, Eyes squinty slitted, jaw clenched, Fingers poised, ready to pounce. (Source: "Poetic Divagation", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) Opening volley in a two-part poem about writing poetry. Or hunting it. Or romancing it... ...
Midlife Mashup
Wonder
"After all, the object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state that makes art inevitable." ~ Robert Henri ...
Find
Gather chanterelles in unfamiliar woods, Golden answers to earthy questions Long forgotten. Or abandoned. This is damned near all that remains from a poem called "Find Your Why" that started out with soul (really!) and promise, or so I thought. A remix of several conversation snippets laminated together with musty, loamy "glue". I've smashed it apart and put it back together again so many times ...
Time
"I can always regain lost territory. A single second, never." ~ Napoleon Hat tip to Hugh MacLeod, author of Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination and creative pen/wordsmith behind gapingvoid.com Related articles gapingvoid @ Ditech (gapingvoid.com) Creativity and how to find the work you love (notesfiled.wordpress.com) ...
Paper Poem
Sometimes the stop and start uncertainty, The tactile tension, texture and cross-outs, Wine blots, smudges, and tangled doodles Are the only way to breath life into a verse. (Source: "Paper Poem", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) This latter chunk of a fleeting vignette on the analog/digital duality neither burnishes nor batters digital creativity. While less of a "divide" every day, there ...
Remain an Artist
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~ Pablo Picasso ...