Friday, August 31, 2012

Pre-poetry micro-challenge: Day 10 - 2 for the price of one



Longing for my bed. This is how it makes me feel -- glorious, decadent, shiny, like nothing will ever be this perfect. Who wouldn't want to be here. Bright and cosy, comfy, sensuous. Fabric hugging me, loving me like a cloud, heavenly, angels watching over me. In here is the life I live right now, the feelings I know I love. Out there is cold and shady, who knows. While I'm in my bed, I am queen of my domain. Think I will stay there for the day.Thanks blooming, unfurling, hanging like leaves, like prayers whispering, twisting in the crisp autumn wind, spinning out and up and around and down to the ground. Gathering, drifting in corners and across the lawn to be raked up and leapt into, piles of fluffy, crunchy comfort. Appreciations, given with each morning, each evening, each meal, each kiss, each blessing, each gift. Hang them high with hope and praise, for the wage of gratitude is grace.Yesterday was crunchy, and I didn't get to pre-poetry writing, so this morning, I've done two to make up for it. Still experimenting with the best times for stuff with school starting. I'm not quite in a routine yet, but I figure I can still keep up with my habit-building goodness.  

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Pre-poetry micro-challenge: Day 8 - Indulging



I'm not going to buy them, but looking at them makes me happy. Maybe more than owning them, in this particular case, given the inches on these things. 
On some old self-indulgent schizz. Purple satin MJ too-high heels... Boudoirs, corsets, courtesans, sex and class. Martinis and white wine, the outer beauty, pain for pleasure. Mary Jane, the consumate little girl, shoes engineered to give a shine and smoothness to the angular ash of the human foot -- fit for work and play. What kind of work, these, is another question. What kind of play. Sultry shady sensual sleek. Bustles and proffered arms. Tipped hats and fascinator bonnets and pin curls.
On some old self-indulgent schizz. Purple satin MJ too-high heels... Boudoirs, corsets, courtesans, sex and class. Martinis and white wine, the outer beauty, pain for pleasure. Mary Jane, the consummate little girl, shoes engineered to give a shine and smoothness to the angular ash of the human foot -- fit for work and play. What kind of work, these, is another question. What kind of play. Sultry shady sensual sleek. Bustles and proffered arms. Tipped hats and fascinator bonnets and pin curls.
In other news, I've successfully made it through the first week of the micro-challenge. Hooray!

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Pre-poetry micro-challenge: Day 7 -- rhapsodizing

It feels like the honeymoon period is over. Today's post was hard to want to do, partly because now that school's just about to start, this is no longer merely a "why not?" activity that fills empty space during the day. But, as a testament to how I'm doing with this habit-forming method, and how far something being habitual goes toward its getting done on a regular basis, I did still do it. Hopefully soon I'll adjust just as well to writing it at night -- either that, or go back to writing it in the morning, once I'm waking up early enough.

The writing wasn't so hard once I actually found a picture. But yes, finding a picture is getting harder than I originally projected. I suspected initially that it might, given my somewhat perfectionist nature and the urge to do things right if I'm to do them at all. I want to write something worthwhile. I want to exude creativity, not just work towards building it. I've knowingly, yet unintentionally upped the ante on this challenge, but I'm going to try to maintain its integrity and insist to myself that even on days when I don't feel I can find a "suitable" image and write "inspired" text, I still do, in fact, find an image and write some text.

Europe -- history's desktop and nature's wheel and humanity's sketchpad, a collective studio of the gods, a street cafe where they gather to smoke, drink, nourish themselves and write, throw, design, create works of art, beauty, truth, light. The evocative beauty, studied yet genuine in its ageless antiquity. Lush and verdant, stately and grandiose, detailed, delicate, tiny, hardy, crumbling. It is the be, mingling with the been, the think mixed with the thought. This is where ages meet.
Europe -- history's desktop and nature's wheel and humanity's sketchpad, a collective studio of the gods, a street cafe where they gather to smoke, drink, nourish themselves and write, throw, design, create works of art, beauty, truth, light. The evocative beauty, studied yet genuine in its ageless antiquity. Lush and verdant, stately and grandiose, detailed, delicate, tiny, hardy, crumbling. It is the be, mingling with the been, the think mixed with the thought. This is where ages meet.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Pre-poetry micro-challenge: Day 6 -- Tiny altars



Some day, I would love to be able to make something like this. 

Encaustic, book altering and personal shrines. Three of my favourite art forms coming together. I love the nature of these perfect miniature monuments to the self and spirit, tiny meditation altars to focus the love you hold for yourself or another. The form lends mystery, imparted partly by the hidden content behind the cover -- a little box of smouldering potential -- partly by the littleness and intensely personal nature. And the mottled wax, at once ethereal, ephemeral, archival.
Encaustic, book altering and personal shrines. Three of my favourite art forms coming together. I love the nature of these perfect miniature monuments to the self and spirit, tiny meditation altars to focus the love you hold for yourself or another. The form lends mystery, imparted partly by the hidden content behind the cover -- a little box of smouldering potential -- partly by the littleness and intensely personal nature. And the mottled wax, at once ethereal, ephemeral, archival.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Pre-poetry micro-challenge: Day 5 -- rainbows




Seriously, I have a thing with them. With bright blended colours. With... well, today's writing inspired me to create this new pin board. It hopefully speaks for itself. But in case it doesn't, here's the actual pre-poem:

Pinned Image
What is it with me and rainbows? I have this fascination with them in various forms. I just love the progression of bright colours from one into to the next, blended but strong. Red to orange, orange to yellow, yellow to green, green to blue, blue to purple to red. And then there's the non-analogous blends. Red to blue, with but a small, illusory blur of purple in between. Rainbow hair, rainbows on the wall, rainbow on my plate, rainbow in my pocket, rainbow on the page.