Some poems (I hope)
It seems like everybody's putting some of their poetry up on the web.
I'm not quite convinced about putting my own up; it took me a long time to
decide to give it a try. But I've written some over the years, when the
mood has struck me. Some of it, I'm even almost happy with.
- Leaning (against the wall)
- This is perhaps my favorite.
- Helen
- Since I wrote this, I've wanted to expand it, write some more stanzas.
I'm not completely thrilled with it, but it has its moments, I think.
- Thiggy!
- This is just plain silly. It was my spontaneous reaction to
Thigpen's arrival in
Ken's treehut on
JHM one day.
- Haiku
- As they teach it to you in elementary school, haiku is pretty easy to
write. (Mine haven't really gotten any more sophisticated since then,
either.) I woke up one January morning with a poem about
autumn complete in my head, and almost a year
later wrote winter. I plan to finish the seasons
one of these days...
- Daffodils
- I spent three months touring Europe with a choir I'm in in the spring
of 1996. While we were in England, I met Rosemary Jane Setford. I found
myself enthralled, and inspired: I wrote the first poems I'd attempted in
about two years. This is my favorite; I might even like it better than
Leaning.
Some prose
Prose is, I think, easier to write than poetry. I'm not sure excellent
prose is any easier to write than excellent poetry, but I am pretty sure
I've never achieved either; I just know my prose feels less affected to me
than my poetry often does.
- Parting Friends
- I've only written a fragment of this one. I'd
forgotten about it, in fact, and only refound it recently; it took me quite
by surprise. I don't think it sounds much like my usual stuff (which I
kind of like).
- Oddly enough, the description I wrote
for Arthen, my character at LambdaMOO, ended up being something I'm
pretty happy with. It describes me more than a little, I think.