Tag Archives: poetry

Three Departments

My creative life can be divided into three sections: art, fiction, and poetry. I’ve been using a Moleskine Planner to help me keep track of which projects in each section I worked on for the day. And the facing pages are great for lists and brainstorming. I haven’t used a planner since I was in …

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Poetry Project Update

Poetry Project #6: Less than 60 songs left from Nightwish. The goal is to finish them before the new album is released next year, and then do those songs! Poetry Project #7: I finished the Firefly episodes and the Serenity movie. So fun to write with orange ink in an orange handmade book. Poetry Project …

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The Short List

Trello has done wonders for me this year. But even then I have felt overwhelmed by the number of projects on my to-do list. So I combined my boards for a total of  four: Writing, Short Stories, Artist’s Way, and Art Projects. And I started making goals for the week. Three to five small things …

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Poetry Journal–Complete!

I finished a notebook today. The poetry project, “What is Love?” is also going well–I finished “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green and “Not a Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters” by Brian Donovan. This is part one because I started a second poetry journal later that year when I went to …

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Poetry Project Update

Poetry Project #6: I’ve been working with cut-out poems from Nightwish lyrics since November 2012. Recently I finished “Angels Fall First” and “Oceanborn.” The remaining lyrics have been printed. Poetry Project #7: What if you could find poetry in TV or movie dialogue? I’m watching Firefly episodes, searching for poems. I have five episodes to …

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Daily Writing, Daily Art

I’ve written every day for three years now. I want to do more with my time everyday, like poetry, fiction, and art. So I’ve decided to try to make a habit of writing poetry daily, writing fiction daily, and making art daily. I’ve missed two days so far sick with a cold, but here’s to …

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Memorizing Poems

I did memorize poems years ago, but I don’t remember those now. Since I do write poems, it’s about time to commit some poems to memory. The ones I want to focus on are: When I have fears that I may cease to be–John Keats The Reckoning–Theodore Roethke My Papa’s Waltz–Theodore Roethke The Waking–Theodore Roethke Snake–Theodore …

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New Poetry Project!

I have started a new poetry project. I’m writing it in the hardcover side-bound book I made. Who knew it would be so exciting to write in a book I made?  

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The Box of Awesome

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Published Poem!

Bukowski on Wry published my poems: useless things, let, at the dead end, death of roach, and we will.

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