Read how I create this new work from an earlier poem
The music of me
In outlines
you refuse to hearYou think you strip me back to my music
You think you strip me back to my soul
You think you strip me back to meBut I refuse
to feel myself through your hands
to hear myself through your music
to move to your expectations
I am working hard on new poetry for competitions and submissions.
I have two metaphors that have been preoccupying me for a couple of weeks. They simply won’t go away. I even had a vivid dream based on one of them last night!
I have put preliminary words down on paper. Now I am faced with the task of playing with them until they become fully formed poems. As part of this process, I am doing some creative writing exercises from Hazel’s Smith’s Writing Experiments.
I spent nearly two hours reworking two ideas, and these may turn into two poems or a suite of poems.
I loved particularly Smith’s exercises on additions and substitutions which were my main focus of this first experimenting stint.
Whilst I can’t share the new poems, I thought I would demonstrate how some of the techniques from Smith’s book might work on poems I have…
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