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Thursday 30 November 2023

482 - An Ode to Birds


This poem was born during a "poetic bubble" (bulle poétique) at LucieBulle's stream, whose prompt was: what do the birds tell you?

In the allotted half hour, I composed the first Francophone version, which was not yet titled, and managed to rhyme only the first half of the poem; following which I decided to add rhymes in the second half, and the title suggested by Lucie herself, giving the second version.

Wednesday 8 November 2023

481 - Marianne's Hands - A Poem

 


I initially composed this poem in French, back on 23rd October (2023). I encoded certain information there, including in certain compositional constraints that I chose. You can read the original here

In adapting, I had to sacrifice most of the rhymes, in order to keep it flowing. 

Tuesday 7 November 2023

480 - Psychotherapy Nov 2023


Given my travel difficulties, I have had several psychotherapy sessions by phone, and yesterday's continued this tradition.

Before explaining the topics of our conversation, I detail what has been happening for several weeks and warn you, the subject is heavy, so a Trigger Warning follows.

Friday 14 July 2023

479 - American Decay V2

 



Image : one of my own photos, taken during hiking. 

Trigger warnings due to content : suggestive material, anti-religion, anti-guns, critic of usa overturning roe vs wade

I was inspired to compose the text, mixing some Babylon 5's 1st season intro (you can read it here) and some Lord of the Rings reference (the One ring to rule them all...) 

Monday 3 July 2023

478- The Dragon and the Phoenix poem

 


note : image edit using several copyright free sources, blended into the poem's narrative.

My 17th composed poem since June 2022 was inspired from a phrase that Joyce Lee said in her music stream (homepage here), from 2 or 3 weeks ago, something about a stalemate between a dragon and a phoenix (perhaps not exactly in that wording, I don't recall precisely). 


Wednesday 21 June 2023

477- The Chaplet - Poem

The Chaplet is my overall 16th poem since last year (I say that, because I wrote a couple others many years ago and if I find them in my external hard drives, I might share them).
I operated a bit differently than these 15 prior poems : instead of publishing in English, then translating to French and coming back to alter my original entry with new words to match my translation's rhymes, I composed, translated, and adapted on the spot, altering one another until I had the rhymes and all the meanings that I intended. 

Wednesday 14 June 2023

476 - Health Updates for the past 18 months

 


Image:  pic of my sprained ankle in the brace, edited. 

Below : 1,238 words long entry

It's been such a long time since I last updated you about anything, so here goes - a whole entry about my health in the past year, or actually year and half. 

Monday 15 May 2023

475 - Living in a religious cult 7 - failed parenting

When I posted my sixth living in a religious cult entry, back in July 2022, I thought I was done with the series that started in October 2017. However, just like I said back then, it's probably impossible to be exhaustive - at least on a blog - in telling all that occurred in those traumatic years in my father's religious cult. 

Today, I discuss the topic of parenthood : that of his failures as a parent might be evident already from previous entries, but requires expanding and perhaps clarification.

Monday 8 May 2023

474 - Brainstorm - A Poem


During Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge I was inspired to write a mashup of all her 10 prompts into one poem. I'd taken notes and a few days later, started composing. 

The muses decided to redirect the narrative, to what became Brain Storm. 

Saturday 6 May 2023

473 - Eat the Rich! - Slam Poetry 01

 


It's pretty cool to be present in Twitch streams and get inspired into writing poems. That's how I participated in a challenge, changing it from song writing to poetry - you can read all 10 with the label 'EmmaMcGann'. 

Yesterday, I was in Kelli, aka Kelaska's stream, and during a conversation about rhymes, song VS poem composition with or without them, someone asked what rhymed with 'sausage'. 

Monday 1 May 2023

472 - His Last Page - A poem




Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge is over, and now I finally arrive to its 10th and last prompt : The last page (e.g. inspiring book, conclusion, bitter end).

I decided to turn to science, using the Sun... with a touch of fantasy and science-fiction : a conversation between the Sun, and... left his correspondent's name out of this poem, but with some nods you may be able to puzzle and realize whom I speak about.... (if not, scroll down past the end to see , and there's also a  nod to Bilbo's butter quote)

PS : I used a creative-commons Nasa image of a Red Giant, and drew a star-looking viewscreen around. 

Sunday 30 April 2023

471- From Wall to Wall a tale of two parallel lives - a Poem

 


I'm working to finish Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge (it lasted 10 days from 17 to 26 April), each with its own prompt. If you recall, I'd converted it into poems, and I now come towards the very end with post #9, for which the prompt was "Parallel lives" (e.g. destiny, connection, contrast).

This one required a lot of thinking, as I wasn't sure how to approach the subject... I already know what I want to use this part of the prompt for my mashup, but inspiration for the main challenge was tardy. 

I read Emma's song, as well as members who posted in her Discord server for it, and it finally hit me with basic keywords, which I built around something that I wish had happened... so I expanded it to a story telling of something else (for which I obviously didn't ever want to participate in, as you'll see from the paragraphs below). 

Once composed, I realized this makes a tryptic with Prison Escape from day 4, and Unsent Letter to a Despot from day 8. 

Friday 28 April 2023

470 - Unsent letter to a despot - a poem


 Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge is over, as it lasted 10 days (17-26 April), each with its own prompt. If you recall, I'd converted the challenge into poems, and I now post #8, for which the prompt was "unsent letter" (e.g. texts, lost words, apologies). 

I oscillated between trials of a light topic, but couldn't come up with more than a line or two, and a much much heavier topic, presented below. 

I must display a trigger warning, for psycho-emotional abuse, trauma and a tad graphic content - in a 388 word long text. 

Wednesday 26 April 2023

469 - Roof of the Mountain - A poem

 Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge is over, as it lasted 10 days, each with its own prompt. 

As I converted the challenge into poems, and being slower, I'm now at my 7th - don't worry, I'll compose and post the others in the next few days, with a bonus in the works...

The prompt for this was "Silence" (e.g. solitude, quiet, abandoned), for which I chose to break from heavier topics, and wrote this about the silence and solace that nature offers, particularly on top of a mountain I love hiking to. 

The image above was taken there, and I took the artistic approach for the text, Mountain going upwards, around the macro attachment's view (this topic is mentioned below) 

Tuesday 25 April 2023

468 - Strands of Shadows - A poem



 Day 6 – shadows (light & dark, illusive, ghosts,,,) in Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge - I'll remind you that I adapt the challenge to write poems. 

467 - A wonderful party - A poem

 


I got behind again, so I'm catching up with my poems, adapting from Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge.

Day 5 : Song of the seasons (e.g. autumn, christmas, halloween)

For this, I decided to write a fan-fic poem, and left a small hint as to which "wonderful party" I allude... 

Sunday 23 April 2023

466 - Prison Escape - a poem

 


Slowly catching up with my late poem posting, for Emma Mcgann's song writing challenge.

Day 4 : Time Travel (e.h history, make a chage, end of an era)

For this, I remain with the topics of mental illness, as it regards religious trauma, and thus warrants a trigger warning

465 - Shifting Greys - a poem




After several attempts which all stemmed into a current preoccupation of my depression, I kept the topic but managed to find a ray of light to end this poem for day 3's "Colors of Emotion" in Emma Mcgann's challenge

Thursday 20 April 2023

464 - Fixed Point - a poem

 



For day 2 in Emma Mcgann's challenge, I struggled so much to come up with an inanimate object, and one of the keywords Emma gave in the prompts was "wall" (that and the other details on her website).

Tuesday 18 April 2023

463 - Dreamland : a poem

I wrote this poem because I wanted to stir my inspiration out of its slumber, and used Emma Mcgann's songwriting challenge prompt to create this poem - I'm not a song writer. 
At 197* words, it's shorter than my previous poems, but am still rather pleased with the result.

Tuesday 20 September 2022

462- Addiction & traumas : Why I gave up alcomahol (long ago)




I used one of my photos and edited in artistically, as I don't wish to trigger anyone with a photo pertaining directly to the topic at hand

As it's been over 4 years since entry 338 and 6 since entry 130, I'm sure you'd have forgotten that I had explained that part of my life in my father's religious cult included being given drugs as part of 'coming closer to god' claims he had, and which were actually part of his tools in maintaining control and grip of his followers, including me. 


I recall that for a time, I had withdrawal symptoms and know therefore that in the course of his giving these to me, I had developed an addiction, which luckily for me, is far gone and part of my distant past.

Monday 15 August 2022

461- Patriarchal apologies



Note on image: I used a copyright free image, copied and reversed, added my text of examples in black, and title in red. 

Note on content : in some passages, I take a sarcastic speech, but I don't personally believe in the phrases. I'm an intersectional feminist and lgbtqia+ included (trans women are women, there are more than two genders and more than one sexuality), but I showcase patriarchy in this entry. 

It is, by no means, exhaustive in examples. 

Hereafter, a medium, 1,632 word long, entry ensues, with a TW section at the bottom. 

In today's (15 August 2022) Mae's stream, an important feminist topic arose as to why women tend to apologize more than men, and for everything - including things they're not even remotely responsible for. 

Thursday 4 August 2022

460 - American Decay : A poem

 


Image : one of my own photos, taken during hiking. Edited for today's topic, shown in a poem form. Added a faint, twisted representation of the flag 

Trigger warnings due to content : suggestive material, anti-religion, anti-guns, critic of usa overturning roe vs wade

I was inspired to compose the text, mixing some Babylon 5's 1st season intro (you can read it here) and some Lord of the Rings reference (the One ring to rule them all...) 

Addendum : after my wife read the poem and told me her thoughts, I want to specify that I purposefully composed it with discordance, in view of the topic. I may revisit and alter order of phrases for closer , more apparent rhymes ; In that eventuality, I'd also uniformize my language and not mix two styles, but for now, this is the current version, with its mess and variations. 

Medium entry with 602 words (poem itself) + 156 with adaptation examples in the bottom. 


Sunday 31 July 2022

459- Qui Vive - A poem

 



Yesterday, I wrote another mental health related poem, this time about GAD and panic attacks.

The image is my own, artistically edited. Here goes.

Edit 5/05/2023 : a title is added :

Thursday 28 July 2022

458 - X-Strologer


As often, I merely added the text on a copyright free image, 

and this entry's another long one 2,317 words 13,720 characters


The time has arrived to disclose to you, readers, that after several years of growing disinterest into a very popular topic, I have totally quit on... astrology. 

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