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For the fictional bubble of March 27, 2024, the inspiration must have come from a photo of an object posted by one of the Rainettes on discord. My chosen object being the mask posted by Dark, I first composed a poem comprising stanzas of 4, 3, 5, 3 and 2 lines. (these numbers are true in the Open Office file ; Rainettes is how we are called in that community).
Voting topics for the poetry bubble of 21 February 2024:
How many are we?
How to be a poet with ghosts
What are your disobediences?
For this composition, I relied on previous bubbles, and made a sort of synthesis, a summary of the characters - with a view to continuing the series created by the interactions in links that I established after a few initially separated texts.
The fiction bubble of 16/Feb/2024 consists of 5 words to include: happy, poor, port, kitchen, table.
My composition follows directly from the previous workshop, the poetic one, dedicated to a dialogue with a simple stone.
The subject of the poetic bubble 7 February 2024 was voted between
What do you know about nature?
what are your territories?
What conversation do you have with a simple pebble?
For the fiction bubble on 24//Jan/2024 5 words to include: Extreme, Poor, First, Sigh, Two.
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The original poem was born in French, in the poetic bubble of January 19 (2024) at LucieBulle's, the promot was : what is your inventory?
We voted in poll with two other possibilities:
where is and what is your garden?
What do you know about your era?
Note on the image : I used 2 of my own photos
For the composition of this January 12, the fiction start/end bubble announced the 1st sentence must be:
"Ils avaient dû s'aimer mais c'était il y a longtemps... =
"They must have loved each other but it was a long time ago...
and the text must end with this:
"Je vois juste une lune en croissant et des nuages en forme de mélancholie" =
"I just see a crescent moon and clouds in the shape of melancholy"
"They must have loved each other but it was a long time ago...
I present to you 5 texts; 4 were composed during creative workshop streams at LucieBulle, and the last one I composed a continuation of the first text, outside the stream. The whole thing was written between September and December 2023 - with a very small correction at the beginning of January.
Note: I used creative commons, royalty-free images.
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.
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.
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...)
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).
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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)
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.
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...
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.
