Poetry

I write a poem probably every day, and most of them are inspired by a quick thought or a moment and then I put it into verse.  The other day it was this one, inspired by the fact that it has rained almost non-stop in Massachusetts for several weeks.  When we finally got some respite, there he was again, bringing another rainstorm!  I say to people that Toranos has been courting me, and that's why he's been around so much. 

I am always extremely flattered to be compared to anyone good, so I did not mean it that way. Thank you! :-)

I keep reading your newly-published poem and it really takes me back to a similar experience. Very evocative. I shall tell you the story sometime.

I don't think I have. Was that one of his English language poems?

I'm very much interested in writing more narrative poetry. At the moment I've been working on novel-like narratives or romances (to use a much older term, not to be confused with a "romance novel" of course) with the Mabinogion as my primary inspiration. They are supplements of the Konsmogeniā, some additional sagas, all of them longer than a standard novella but on the short side for a novel (200 pages or less). However, I would love to take the time to make long narrative poetry (inspired by Edmund Spenser) of equal length. I just find it very exhausting to write even 40 lines of poetry, never mind thousands, so it will probably take a long time to finish something like that.

I definitely need to adjust my process. My earliest poetic inspiration were dainas, and then unsurprisingly I picked up quickly on other short-form poems like Welsh triads and Japanese haiku, and then I was inspired further by the Welsh practice of "awenyddiaeth" or poetic inspiration. So my compositional process for poetry has always been to write something brief and succinct when the inspiration strikes me. Writing longer poems, I feel like I'm instead tapping into my narrative compositional attitudes, so I think that's why it will be past to explore narrative poems when to work out long-form approaches to composition. The poem I posted in the previous page at 72 lines was one of my earliest attempts at that. However, I still compose dainas and other brief poems all the time because now I'm just conditioned to do that when the mood strikes me. I almost feel with those that they're just me expressing myself more than trying to create artworks, but that's also in line with my folksy style, so I think it suits me.

Those are really nice, especially the first. (I can only appreciate the English, of course.)