Words and phrases turn / through my head, a tumult of / metaphor and analogy. / Counted out in syllables, / ordered chaos on the page.
My poems usually feel like that, plucked from the ether, phrases turned over and around, substitutions and elongations…
The plan is to eventually be able to compose a poem in less than 5 minutes on any topic I’m given. To test me my partner supplied a very random word. I took a few minutes and came up with this:
Venomous mammal / From an egg your beginning / And water your life / swimmer of the Southern Isle / Nature’s glowing chimera.
It’s not bad for what it is. I would have much rather preferred a color or object or emotion…but when life gives you a platypus…
I am considering adding my poems to the blog in a different format. I’ve never really liked the slashes for syllable delineation. In period they would just be written in two lines, the first three and then the couplet. My problem lies more in the limitations of my interface with the blog and how little I know about manipulating it. Eventually I’ll find something I like more. Until I take the time to play with format, it will stay as is.
And now, the project progress update:
This little rolled hem is taking a good long while. I can say that I’m more than halfway done with it. It’s actually taking so long to do that I’m seriously considering lengthening the sleeves by adding that strip of fabric just to make them go faster. Because it would be faster (so much faster) to add a half panel width to each sleeve giving me selvage edges than it would to hem them both. I’ll still have to hem the collar either way.
Well, I have the rest of this hem and then the collar during which to consider my dilemma.
