Song to my Soul

My children were playing in the background, as  I read this.

Opening Book: The Green Gate Page 74-76

Opening Book: All Hallows’ Eve Pages 62-71 (Part 3 of 3)

Continuing Part II.

Opening Book: All Hallows’ Eve Page 52-61 (Post 2 of 3)

Continuing Part I.

End of Part II

Continue Part III

Opening Book: All Hallows’ Eve Page 43-51 (Post 1 of 3)

The first third of the narrative poem – All Hallows’ Eve. I wrote it as a way to teach myself Blank Verse. There were several years between the start and the finish – though I wasn’t working on it all that time. The poem was inspired by Keats’ Hyperion. I wanted to match its length and bring blank verse back to narrative. If you hear any instructor, critic or reader bemoaning the death of narrative blank verse, send them here! It’s alive and well in me and my poems.

End of Part I

Continue Part II

Opening Book: Come Out! Page 41-42

• I changed a line in this poem:

From: From off the floor where still its veins had bled.
To: Off the floor where still its veins bled through.

• I think this was my twentieth try at reading this. What I would really love is for an actress or another reader, a woman preferably, to give it a try. If there are any takers, and if you like the poem enough, let me know.

December 1 2008 – motionless spider

Opening Book: The Death of Li Po Page 14

Opening Book: The Ghost at High Tide Page 10-12

[This is an old poem, written in 1989. I wrote it for an actress wanting a soliloquy for an audition. I still wasn’t writing blank verse up to this point.]

All my Telling