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Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Podetry
Friday, April 26, 2013
Tirelessly Speeding Them
Today's Prompt: Titles. If you wrote a book about your life, your community, your condition, or your Health Activism – what would you title it? Come up with 5 working titles. What about your biography?
I ruminated on this prompt in 2011. I came up with working titles for all of those things. I don't think I was satisfied with any of them.
To say that I'm particular about titles would be an understatement. It's often the last thing I add to a post. The element of a poem to which I gave the most consideration. Sadly, I spend more time crafting a title than I do drafting the content. My titles often allude to something in literature or song. Or they have a double meaning. Or they're funny.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said, "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,—words in their best order; poetry,—the best words in their best order."
I'm a poet. As silly as it may sound to declare that in most modern circles, I am. My heart will always be in poetry before it is in song or prose. I don't create much poetry because, the older I get, the more deficient I find my attempts. I'll keep writing until I get it right. I forget which author said that that's why we continue to write. We write because we haven't said it the right way yet.
I think every title holds the potential for poetry. The best of the best words in a single line. Sometimes a single word.
And at the end of the day, I'm honestly not ready to slap a title on my life. Titles are the last thing I do. I'm not there yet. You'll find my title on my tombstone if you care to read me that long.
Until then, you can find me here, sitting over a post for an extra half hour, thinking about what to call it before I hit Publish. Wishing it were poetry.
I ruminated on this prompt in 2011. I came up with working titles for all of those things. I don't think I was satisfied with any of them.
To say that I'm particular about titles would be an understatement. It's often the last thing I add to a post. The element of a poem to which I gave the most consideration. Sadly, I spend more time crafting a title than I do drafting the content. My titles often allude to something in literature or song. Or they have a double meaning. Or they're funny.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said, "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,—words in their best order; poetry,—the best words in their best order."
I'm a poet. As silly as it may sound to declare that in most modern circles, I am. My heart will always be in poetry before it is in song or prose. I don't create much poetry because, the older I get, the more deficient I find my attempts. I'll keep writing until I get it right. I forget which author said that that's why we continue to write. We write because we haven't said it the right way yet.
I think every title holds the potential for poetry. The best of the best words in a single line. Sometimes a single word.
And at the end of the day, I'm honestly not ready to slap a title on my life. Titles are the last thing I do. I'm not there yet. You'll find my title on my tombstone if you care to read me that long.
Until then, you can find me here, sitting over a post for an extra half hour, thinking about what to call it before I hit Publish. Wishing it were poetry.
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| That's me, second from right, 8 months after diagnosis, in March of 1991. I was photographed for the local paper for winning a poetry competition. |
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Verses
Today's Prompt: Acrostic. Write a health acrostic for your condition, hashtag, or username! (acrostic = a poem where every letter of a word serves as the first letter of a word or phrase i.e. DOG = Digs Others’ Gardens)
Since I composed an acrostic for the word DIABETES during the first year of the HAWMChallenge, I thought I'd take a different approach this time.
Singing a lot,
Writing a little,
Evolving and growing
Everyday, hoping to find
The middle ground.
Living off kilter,
You cherish the normal.
Vertigo,
Of sorts, as your glucose values
Increase, decrease, and throw you off track.
Career, parenthood, social media, marriage,
Elegantly juggled into the story of one woman's life with
Diabetes.
Since I composed an acrostic for the word DIABETES during the first year of the HAWMChallenge, I thought I'd take a different approach this time.
Singing a lot,
Writing a little,
Evolving and growing
Everyday, hoping to find
The middle ground.
Living off kilter,
You cherish the normal.
Vertigo,
Of sorts, as your glucose values
Increase, decrease, and throw you off track.
Career, parenthood, social media, marriage,
Elegantly juggled into the story of one woman's life with
Diabetes.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Sugar and Rhyme
I hate to break your Asian-verse-loving hearts, but I'm not going to do any haikus today. I've beat this dead horse a few times. Once here in a thread at TuDiabetes and again here on my blog during last year's HAWMC challenge.
But in keeping with the prompt for today, I'm definitely going to talk poetry.
In 2009, the Diabetes Hands Foundation (the nonprofit that runs TuDiabetes and EsTuDiabetes) sponsored an awareness initiative in the form of a poetry contest called "No Sugar Added Poetry."
Over the course of four weeks, we selected submissions that best told the stories of how our members' lives had been touched by diabetes. And then, in 2010, we published a book with the winning entries.
Well, we're doing it again.
This year's contest submission period begins today, Friday, April 6, and ends April 27, 2012. As before, there will be prizes for the weekly winners and the possibility of another publication.
Send us a little
Diabetes poetry...
You could be published!
(see what I did there?)
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