I have been feeling the need to focus on my writing lately, to get back to the creative side of me that has to take backstage to the obligations of life - I often get so wrapped up in my work or other ventures that my art suffers neglect.

Lately, I have been really itching to get some poetry collections together, as well as working with other arts - music, particularly of the chorale sort (after listening to way too much Mediaeval Baebes music), and linguistics, mostly of the Old English sort (which has always been fascinating - honestly, the likes of Beowulf is amazing to read) ... all of this using original work. There are a couple collections in mind; one that has begun and one that I would like to begin. The latter is this exercise, which I am hoping will grow into a collection and will allow me some versatility to turn it into something even bigger and better, combining other aspirations. Ideally, it is something that I would like to release into the pagan community as a bardic offering.

In taking some inspiration from another exercise found here on Protagonize (Poeming Kept Short -- check it out!), I thought maybe I would work on this collection with a minimum of 12 lines in mind, and maybe borrow the idea of using lines or words from within previous poems to title the next poems... I found it to be a great spurt of inspiration for what seems like an otherwise dry well of creativity. It seems like a good thing, to start somewhere. Or pulling words from the books that I have lying around here for some inspiration. I'm sitting here with a couple of them now to see if I the juices will flow.Though the first poems posted will be the few that I have hanging around, written in the past for classes I have taken.

I figure that what comes out of it may not be fantastic, but at least it will be something!

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Lately, I have been really itching to get some poetry collections together, as well as working with other arts - music, particularly of the chorale sort (after listening to way too much Mediaeval Baebes music), and linguistics, mostly of the Old English sort (which has always been fascinating - honestly, the likes of Beowulf is amazing to read) ... all of this using original work. There are a couple collections in mind; one that has begun and one that I would like to begin. The latter is this exercise, which I am hoping will grow into a collection and will allow me some versatility to turn it into something even bigger and better, combining other aspirations. Ideally, it is something that I would like to release into the pagan community as a bardic offering.

updated Nov 27 '11 by egerrow