Sunday, March 13, 2011

Poetry and Truth

DOES ANYONE KNOW A SHOP SELLING HUGE WHITE SMOCK SHIRTS? I have decided to become a poet, you see. So I need one. I already have a fountin pen bought on special offer for 30p. It came with 3 blue cartridges but I need poetical black ones. And thick acid free Sketch 100 paper for manuscripts and lots of lovely red wine to leave poetic winestains all over my poetic manuscripts. I already have a special notebook for copying poems into. Problem is I haven't really written one for 20 years. And I have a halfarsed poetry blog not even I read.

Thing is if someone said "here are some oils, paint a portrait after the manner of Leonardo da Vinci" I'd be stumped. But if someone said "knock out a Spenserean stanza, two sonnets, a Shakespearean and a Petrarchan and ten stanzas in terza rima" I could do it and I've found some of my best stuff (with my habit of copying out other people's work) and wondered who on earth wrote it! It was only fragments so nothing ever got copied up and saved. Only finished stuff is saved.

Once I have the shirt and the wine and a finished opus I'll put a bit online. I have thought up a way of promoting my opus that has never been done before, especially not by a living poet and THAT is how I want my work published. If I give away my idea somebody else shall only take it so I can't tell it till it's done.

I dearly would love to switch on to Subutex but don't want to put myself in a mental hospital thinking I'm being sucked through the vortex of a spiral (ie severely manic) so I'm indulging that idea with great care. Ie doing absolutely nothing about it for the time being.

Beatrix Potter is on my television. I got the Renee Zellwegger DVD. She's just like me.


Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. Isn't this sublime?

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4 comments:

  1. Janice Seagraves14 March 2011 at 03:01

    Good luck with the poetry writing.

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  2. Syd14 March 2011 at 04:03

    I want to read some of your poems.

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  3. Baino14 March 2011 at 07:31

    Well if you're gonna be a poet, you'd better be a bloody good one because I hate poetry. There's a plethora of the rubbish on blogs and most of it frankly is total shit. Hey, here's a thought, why not come over to http://www.tenthdaughterofmemory.blogspot.com and try your hand? There's a a theme each fortnight, you never know . . .although I have to say, poetry has NEVER won. And the critics are tough believe me. Hey, you'd be our first junkie!

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  4. Gledwood14 March 2011 at 13:04

    O Baino you make me laugh.

    AS I say I am fully capable of terza rima (a la Dante's inferno) and sonnets etc you'll have to wait months til I put anything up.

    It will either be in rhymes or blank verse so sharp it cuts glass.

    Syd: thanks

    Janice: thanks

    like I say it will be a while I'm not writing any old shit

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