I'm trying something new, taking a risk this month - participating in#VerseLove with Sarah Donovan,
hoping to write poetry every day this April.
This month of poetry is drawing to a close. It has given me so much pleasure. Today's poetry idea is to share your writing process with the group - what steps do you take, to get ready to write?
Quiet.
Unless I have headphones, to make my own quiet.
I don’t need much else,
Except, of course, my notebook and a working pen.
Tea, is a plus, preferably green.
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Particular, I am not, about where I write.
Lately I have been sitting on the cozy loveseat in the front room.
Even the dining room table works, there in the bright sun.
Also, I like to write in the spare bedroom upstairs.
Sometimes, weather permitting, I can write outside, on my porch.
Each of these places is great, and often I wander between them.
Quiet, please.
Sarah J. Donovan, PhD, from her 30 Days of Poetry website:
ReplyDeleteI love all these conjunctive adverbs — lately, also — and the commas that give us pause and conditions throughout — so much has to be in place, or not, and there is a need but flexibility. Just love the “wander” between it all.
Sarah
Denise Krebs, from her 30 Days of Poetry website:
ReplyDeleteMaureen, I like how you know what you need. Quiet is the key. Lots of lovely places you have to write. They are explained well. I can picture your dining room table with the sun on it. It has been a joy to see how each person writes today. Thank you for sharing what allows you to write your beautiful poems.
glenda funk, from Sarah Donovan's 30 Days of Poetry website:
ReplyDeleteMaureen,
Your poem and Jennifer’s both honor silence. I love that and the implied respect silence offers ideas by diving them space to grow. I have an image of you on the loveseat, at the table, in the porch, in an upstairs spare room, all places harmonious to writing. I have a deck but not much of a front porch. Houses here rarely have expansive s porches, and this is something I wanted and wish I’d insisted on when we built our home. Anyway, your writing life sounds a lot like mine. Thank you.
—Glenda
gayle sands, from Sarah Donovan's 30 Days of Poetry website:
ReplyDeleteMaureen—I am at a loss to tell you why I love your poem so much. It is comfortable, and the space provided—both in the arrangement and the words themselves—allows me to settle in and enjoy myself. Hmmm.