Eric’s Writing Corner

NaPoWriMo Day 13

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Well, this post actually includes days three through 12 as well. I have been writing an average of fifteen to twenty lines (or more) each day though it has only culminated in six and a half poems. Does it still qualify for NaPoWriMo? Sure why not…I am still writing each day!

I am unsure whether I will be posting any of these pieces at this point. I’ve noticed that as I have made daily writing a priority (something that hasn’t happened since my college days), that I have begun to wander into topics of a more personal nature. I have material coming from places within that I’ve not visited in many years. This process has led to some interesting discoveries about myself and the nature of writing. Though the subject matter I am writing about is intensely personal (i.e. a parent’s death, marriage, parenting a special needs child, raising an adopted child), the process of putting pen to paper has allowed me to see many of these experiences in a more universal way. It’s not something that I recall being “taught” to me (though it may have), but that is how I view quality poetry: the ability to take something personal and through the course of words move it the theme(s) to the “bigger picture”. Take it from the inner being and lead it to a larger relationship with the world around.

Just some random thoughts…now back to the writing..oh, here’s something from a journal of mine from 21 years ago that I thought I would offer up for Day 13:

Tears flow silently
Down the white-face of a clown
Dreaming of dying