And here I thought I’ll just go through my notes l, add a couple of lines and refine what I scribbled on the go and move on.
I did so with that short piece from over a week ago, and I thought I made something nice and worth while, four stanzas of 4 lines each.
Then I decided to look at it in the sunlight of the next day, refine it and call it a day. My first finished poem for my book.
Such is not the case, I’m down to like 30 lines. I ended up scribbling almost all of the work and take it to a new direction, filled with alliteratio, assonace, phonems, internal and external rhymes, sometimes a whole line is rhyming; the flow is so beautiful when I read it out loud, almost like a rap song but more emotional I suppose.
I still have more much to go, as despite the length I am still in what I suppose is the first act, death. Now I’m starting to move it to the birth phase then life then death again, if I could. Going into a full circle, but will see what happens. So far it’s evocative and rhyming but fueled with melancholy and filled with darkness.
I will be taking it through the bend and up back to the light in its discourse, then maybe drop it down to where it all began – bury it.