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Eurydice to Orpheus

eurydice’s silence is resounding. you can put anything in that emptiness. —@finelythreadedsky

#replicative #i was going to wait until morning to reblog/reply to this but I can't so forgive me if this is barely coherent but: #totally did not expect words! fully expected someone to make an image (and honestly would love to see that too!) but i do love this #reminiscent of eurydice carol ann duffy. i am kind of obsessed with the fact that you chose to fill in the lacunae as well #a beat too long...sarah ruhl's eurydice has entered the chat (although she is not nearly as caustic) #LOVE lines 7-8 v much! #and 'i take up [metrical] space'...yeah......... #thank you very much for this! #every ending undone in reconstructing you

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It could be! If you fill it out, I would very much like to see!

Eurydice to Orpheus

eurydice’s silence is resounding. you can put anything in that emptiness. —@finelythreadedsky

#chorus #open offer to anyone who wants to do so

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Everyone Hates Poetry 2024

Rules

Write a poem before Feb.5th and submit it to me with the submit feature or in an ask.

Poems should be less than 500 words

You can use your real name or your blog name but they can't be completely anonymous.

Poems will be published at 9pm on Wednesdays and then a link to each poem will be added to the bottom of this pinned post so people can read them all.

I can't stop anyone from reblogging their own poems and generally sharing art is a wonderful thing, but don't turn it into some kind of social media campaign. because people with a small number of followers would be at a disadvantage. This is supposed to be fun. Please do reblog this post and tag people if you think you know someone on tumblr that might be interested. Since the post will contain links to the submissions, your poem will not be lost in the shuffle.

If I receive less than 10 entries I'll cancel the contest and consider it a failed experiment.

Public voting will begin after the 5th.and account for 50% of the vote

A panel of judges will also vote but will not submit poems themselves, and their votes will make up the other 50% of the final tally.

.There will be small prizes for the winner and runner up.

This is my art blog and will remain so, as it always has been. I'm doing this because poets here don't get much chance to get their stuff read and I have a fair number of followers. It's just a little thing to do if you want. I'm not turning this into a poetry blog or a contest blog or anything else.

Poems don't need to be finished. Due to the one month time frame I would suspect these would be first drafts, but please write something new. I want to encourage people to do something now, however imperfect, rather than showing work that's already done.

Updates will follow. Thank you!

Rule clarifications

-Please dont send poems anonymously if at all possible. I am happy to include a name that doesn't identify your blog directly but it's impossible to refer to or contact people who submit poems anonymously. I can't have anonymous poems considered without at least a name for you and if you were to win a prize, you'd need a name and address to claim it. I don't so much care about the latter part, that's for you, this becomes very disorganized and hard to regulate with anonymous messages floating in.

-Please put the title of your poem above it. If it is below it, I have no way of distinguishing with certainty if it's a title or a last line.

#replicative #i will definitely be submitting! this looks fun!

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Telephone Wire • Jan. 2024

poetry assembled from a national geographic article on touch. support me on patreon here.

#p #archive #analog #behavior was recovered from the wreckage #this article is ridiculously long and I have a little over 2 weeks to use it up #anyway i really like this one #i am notoriously terrible at writing love poems but this one is actually decent. good even

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6, 20, 23, and/or 32? kissy as well if you would like one from me.

6. Favorite character you ever created.

To be honest, I can't remember a single character I've created at the moment. I might come back to the question when I can.

20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on.

23. Single or multi POV, and why?

It's extremely context dependent! They serve different purposes.

32. Easiest character to write.

Eurydice.

#correspondence #fab-wolf-in-the-gloom #memory issues...am i right? #thanks for asking!

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i have poetry in me but mostly it rolls around in me like a marble at the bottom of a glass

#replicative

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1, 4, and 7 for the ask game?

1. Favorite place to write.

Either at a library or a park.

4. Do you have writing habits or rituals?

Hmm...I'm not sure! Nothing that I've noticed, but some are probably present.

7. Favorite author.

Extremely difficult question. It changes daily. Probably Aeschylus right now.

writing asks

#correspondence #songforten

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10. 29. 30. kissy

10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what you’d write about.

Oh, that's hard. Honestly, we could probably write an Iphigenia book together.

29. Who do you write for?

Definitely myself.

30. Favorite line you’ve ever written.

Cheating a bit. This poem.

writing asks

#correspondence #regenderate

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New ask game for writers

1. Favorite place to write. 2. Favorite part of writing. 3. Least favorite part of writing. 4. Do you have writing habits or rituals? 5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most. 6. Favorite character you ever created. 7. Favorite author. 8. Favorite trope to write. 9. Least favorite trope to write. 10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what you’d write about. 11. Describe your writing process from scratch to finish. 12. How do you deal with self-doubts? 13. How do you deal with writers block? 14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book? 15. Where does your inspiration come from? 16. Where do you take your motivation from? 17. On avarage, how much writing do you get done in a day? 18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like? 19. First line of a WIP you’re working on. 20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on. 21. Post the last sentence you wrote in one of your WIP’s. 22. How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied and a project is ultimately done for you? 23. Single or multi POV, and why? 24. Poetry or prose, and why? 25. Linear or non-linear, and why? 26. Standalone or series, and why? 27. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished? 28. And who do you share them with? 29. Who do you write for? 30. Favorite line you’ve ever written. 31. Hardest character to write. 32. Easiest character to write. 33. Do you listen to music when you’re writing? 34. Handwritten notes or typed notes? 35. Tell some backstory details about one of your characters in your story ________. 36. A spoiler for story _________. 37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you. 38. Have you shared your outline of your story ________ with someone? If so, what did they think of it? 39. Do you base your characters of real people or not? If so, tell us about one. 40. Original Fiction or Fanfiction, and why? 41. How many stories do you work on at one time? 42. How do you figure out your characters looks, personality, etc. 43. Are you an avid reader? 44. Best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 45. Worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie? 47. Do you start with characters or plot when working on a new story? 48. Favorite genre to write in. 49. What do you find the hardest to write in a story, the beginning, the middle or the end? 50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had. 51. Describe the aesthetic of your story _______ in 5 sentences or words. 52. How did writing change you? 53. What does writing mean to you? 54. Any writing advice you want to share?

#replicative #oh please send these in! #i write short stories and fic too although none of it is posted here (or really anywhere) so feel free to send numbers about those too

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i am Writing

#replicative #relevant to the hornet sonnet

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Hornet at Herrah's Altar • Dec. 2023

#p #composition #sonnet #archive #hornet #hollow knight #baby's first metrical break...what do we think......... #local poet is shocked to learn it has improved in the last 2 years despite writing very little. more at whatever time it wakes up #if you were there for my first hornet sonnet this is a rewrite of it that's actually good 🫶 #I've always always always had fun playing with her relationship to the radiance...like she has to just. Not Dream and Not Want or else she #will fall to the infection. I guess you could make the argument that being a demigod grants her immunity but that's less interesting to me #The fight to remember her life and herself through the years of stasis while also shutting every emotion down. I think what we see of her i #the game—esp her emotion towards the end—is the cracks in her armor that she deliberately doesn't fix because she knows one way or another #all of this will end. the burden is off her shoulders

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slippage • Dec. 2023

friction craves what kinetic energy offers to wear away the grooves / with manic relief comes at a cost cracks / heat the radio made real in the process / turns to evasion are appealing to none / more than its stasis though insufficient / it needs a counterpart inevitable and in- /  voluntarily makes a liar visible it bores / into its lover like nostalgia effortlessly / keeps time to uneven tempi /  which marks unsalvageable ruin

link to my patreon (one-time tips appreciated!)

#p #composition #acrostic #archive #the box of language desires form but not restraint #column poem that's also a double acrostic 2: electric boogaloo! #the golden shovel is coming but it Will kill me #I'm living with my parents temporarily due to disability stuff and i think i need to try more fucked up poetic forms to cope

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What is the Language Using Us for?

W. S. Graham

First Poem

What is the language using us for? Said Malcolm Mooney moving away Slowly over the white language. Where am I going said Malcolm Mooney.

Certain experiences seem to not Want to go into language maybe Because of shame or the reader’s shame. Let us observe Malcolm Mooney.

Let us get through the suburbs and drive Out further just for fun to see What he will do. Reader, it does Not matter. He is only going to be

Myself and for you slightly you Wanting to be another. He fell. He falls (Tenses are everywhere.) Deep down into a glass jail.

I am in a telephoneless, blue Green crevasse and I can’t get out. I pay well for my messages Being hoisted up when you are about.

I suppose you open them under the light Of midnight of The Dancing Men. The point is would you ever want To be here down on the freezing line

Reading the words that steam out Against the ice? Anyhow draw This folded message up between The leaning prisms from me below.

Slowly over the white language Comes Malcolm Mooney the saviour. My left leg has no feeling. What is the language using us for?

Second Poem

1 What is the language using us for? It uses us all and in its dark Of dark actions selections differ.

I am not making a fool of myself For you. What I am making is A place for language in my life

Which I want to be a real place Seeing I have to put up with it Anyhow. What are Communication’s

Mistakes in the magic medium doing To us? It matters only in So far as we want to be telling

Each other alive about each other Alive. I want to be able to speak And sing and make my soul occur

In front of the best and be respected For that and even be understood By the ones I like who are dead.

I would like to speak in front Of myself with all my ears alive And find out what it is I want.

2 What is the language using us for? What shape of words shall put its arms Round us for more than pleasure?

I met a man in Cartsburn Street Thrown out of The Cartsburn Vaults. He shouted Willie and I crossed the street

And met him at the mouth of the close. And this was double-breasted Sam, A far relation on my mother’s

West-Irish side. Hello Sam how Was it you knew me and says he I heard your voice on The Sweet Brown Knowe.

O was I now I said and Sam said Maggie would have liked to see you. I’ll see you again I said and said

Sam I’ll not keep you and turned Away over the short cut across The midnight railway sidings.

What is the language using us for? From the prevailing weather or words Each object hides in a metaphor.

This is the morning. I am out On a kind of Vlaminck blue-rutted Road. Willie Wagtail is about.

In from the West a fine smirr Of rain drifts across the hedge. I am only out here to walk or

Make this poem up. The hill is A shining blue macadam top. I lean my back to the telegraph pole

And the messages hum through my spine. The beaded wires with their birds Above me are contacting London.

What is the language using us for? It uses us all and in its dark Of dark actions selections differ.

Third Poem

1 What is the language using us for? The King of Whales dearly wanted To have a word with me about how I had behaved trying to crash The Great Barrier. I could not speak Or answer him easily in the white Crystal of Art he set me in.

Who is the King of Whales? What is He like? Well you may ask. He is A kind of old uncle of mine And yours mushing across the blind Ice-cap between us in his furs Shouting at his delinquent dogs. What is his purpose? I try to find

Whatever it is is wanted by going Out of my habits which is my name To ask him how I can do better. Tipped from a cake of ice I slid Into the walrus-barking water To find. I did not find another At the end of my cold cry.

2 What is the language using us for? The sailing men had sailing terms Which rigged their inner-sailing thoughts In forecastle and at home among The kitchen of their kind. Tarry Old Jack is taken aback at a blow On the lubber of his domestic sea.

Sam, I had thought of going again But it’s no life. I signed on years Ago and it wasn’t the ship for me. O leave her Johnny leave her. Sam, what readers do we have aboard? Only the one, Sir. Who is that? Only myself, Sir, from Cartsburn Street.

3 What is the language using us for? I don’t know. Have the words ever Made anything of you, near a kind Of truth you thought you were? Me Neither. The words like albatrosses Are only a doubtful touch towards My going and you lifting your hand To speak to illustrate an observed Catastrophe. What is the weather Using us for where we are ready With all our language lines aboard? The beginning wind slaps the canvas. Are you ready? Are you ready?

#replicative #blog thesis

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Poetry is the extreme end of translation.

All poetry is collage to me. Serious statement.

#chorus

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All poetry is collage to me. Serious statement.

#chorus

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You should make art even if it's just solely for you to enjoy, by the way. Whatever art that is.

#replicative #blog thesis

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write about this • Dec. 2023

words chosen from predictive text. punctuation and linebreaks added by me.

support me on patreon! even a one-time donation helps a lot!

#p #composition #< kind of lol #iteration #behavior was recovered from the wreckage #if you squint you can see cat51 in this. like there are lines where im like. oh that came from a cat51 discussion lol