A Challenging Craft

As we near the end of the first third of the month, I find myself challenged to come up with a poem a day. Thank goodness I wasn't trying to come up with a poem a day within a particular theme! I'd be sunk!

So, here is my humble offering for today, about the essence and presence of writing.

A Challenging Craft

Write

So sayeth the Muse

Of what shall I write

I ask

Muse answers

This

That

The other

This or that

Abtract or concrete

Painting pictures

Sharing thoughts

Sometimes messy

Sometimes neat

Staying within form

Or wandering about

Exploring ideas

Pushing boundaries

Challenging processes

Stirring emotions

Broadening horizons

Fanning flames

Or putting them out

This is what writers do

What writing is all about

National Poetry Month 2011

Today is the first day of National Poetry Month, 2011. My challenge to myself is to write either poetry or something poetry-related every day for the month.

My comfort zone is prose - fiction or non - poetry is challenging for me, both to read and to write. However, to grow as an artist and a writer (although a writer is an artist in the truest sense of the word), I must challenge myself and grow in all areas of the craft.

So, here's goes - 30 days of writing and posting poetry and/or musings about poetry.