NaPoWriMo Days 11-13

Hey all!  NaPoWriMo is still going well.  I seem to like writing more than one poem at a time.  I guess that works, right?

I’m so sore from my boxing seminar on Friday! Coach Ray worked us hard, but it was really fun and fulfilling.  I’m hoping that this can really strengthen my right shoulder…it was a bit too much for me, but I think I can keep up.

Well, lets get down to the poems.

[I sometimes wonder]

I sometimes wonder
if my skin is mottled
green and brown,
patterned with so many
leaves. Camouflage
that shifts with the setting.

[My body is lead]

My body is lead,
dragging me downward
into this cold pool.
Colors are muted,
diffusing through water
My limbs feel so long,
endless in this
watery embrace.

[I am never sure if I am dreaming or awake]

I am never sure if I am dreaming or awake.  Songs draw scenes from my imagination, sirens calling men to their deaths.  Are you real or are you fake?  My fingers twitch with coiled anticipation – but there is no revelation.  Voices echo in my mind, in my room, through the world.  A maddening drum beat pounding through everything.

NaPoWriMo: Some More Catch Up

Hey all! I’m a bit bad at remembering to do my poems.  But at least I’ve been able to play catch up pretty well.

I guess my poems have taken a turn for the weird.  I’m really favoring prose poems this year – heavily.  But today I finally stepped out of that and wrote something a little closer to my ‘regular’ style.  Kind of.  I haven’t done anything that’s particularly ‘personal’ this month (so far), but these look a little more like my regular poems.

If that makes any sense (no).

Poems are behind the cut today!

Rants from a Starving Writer: NaPoWriMo and Other Distractions

NaPoWriMo Catch Up

Hey all!  I fell a little behind on NaPoWriMo…but I managed to catch up today!

Things have been going well out here.  I’m getting things together for Anime Detour…it’s only about 10 days until the con. I’m very excited!

And I’m excited to be doing a boxing seminar at my martial arts school.  It’s a wonderful opportunity to work with a great instructor and finally get a little bit better with my punching technique.

So onto today’s poems!

[The taste of blood...]

The taste of blood on my fingers is the only reason I fight.  It drips to the ground and shifts to money.  Children trail behind me like breadcrumbs, tasteless and disposable.  My fangs tear through metal and spray rubies into the sky.

[A gentle name...]

A gentle name is a good thing, I am told.  I am a trap, my name is like a present, sweet as wine.  A child is the perfect cover, too young to know what is actually going on.  I am like water – perfectly patient – waiting to overtake everything.

[A layer of ice...]

A layer of ice is all that protects me.  My eyes are like my heart – red as garnets and bleeding every moment of every day.  Data is what matters – cold ones and zeros – as frozen as I want people to think I am.  But it is not blood that bleeds from my eyes…

[I want to float]

I want to float
aimless
through the vacuum
of space -
just for a chance
to see a burst
of vibrance.
To see anything
that makes me feel
like a leaf
on the wind.

LL Lemke out~

NaPoWriMo Day 3

[I am a shot in the dark...]

I am a shot in the dark – the only way to see me is starlight.  Hot bursts of lava are my bullets.  I say the world is a marble, swirled with blue and green, that can be held in the palm of my hand.  I blaze through the sky – bright orange plasma trailing behind me – a legacy of what I once was.

There’s day three’s poem!  I wrote it while I was waiting for my ride at taekwondo.

And here’s a random picture of me being slightly crazed.

New in the world of starving writers?  I’m obsessed with the Black Veil Brides’ album “Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones”

LL Lemke out!

NaPoWriMo Day 2

Hey all!  National Poetry Writing Month is going well so far.  Yesterday I kicked the month off with a poem about Allelujah Haptism of Gundam 00.

I’m pretty sure all of the Gundam meisters are going to get a poem

And my two favorite villains.

I can’t leave them out – they might get upset!

I do have some serious poem ideas though…I’ll get to those after I complete my little prose poem project.

You know…I really used to hate prose poems. SO MUCH.  And now they’re one of my favorite forms to work with.  I also used to dislike working with tercets…and now I like working with those too.

It’s fun to realize how much my poetry style has grown since I was younger.  Maybe one day I’ll share some of my older poetry (hahahaha no).  It’s pretty terrible.

Today’s poem!

[I am a void...]

I am a void…a blank slate waiting for those perfect words to send me into action.  Stars shaped like flowers burst from my eyes like red silk.  I sing a song of destruction as a blade slices through clouds that disintegrate like bone.

 

Not particularly long, but still interesting.  Setsuna is not my favorite character, but he still deserved a poem.

LL Lemke

Time Flies When You’re Easily Distracted

Hey all!  Sorry that it’s been so long.  I’ve gotten caught up in some things recently.  I know.  I’m making excuses.  Again.  I’m bad at staying on track with things.  However! It is now APRIL.  That means it is time for National Poetry Writing Month!

There’s a lot to talk about today, so that’s awesome.

My revision of Opus Prelude is coming along. I won’t say well or quickly, but it is coming along and that’s something.  I have so many other things that I want to be writing…but I need to get this one done.

So.  Time really does fly when you’re easily distracted.  Since my last blog post – which was actually a vlog…I have finished two different anime series, started a text based RP with a friend, and thought of the future of one of my main universes.  And now it’s April…so poetry time.

Rants from a Starving Writer: Gundam 00, Cosplay, and Books

Rants from a Starving Writer: Just Catching Up

My Current Writing Projects and Issues (part 3)

Hey all!  It’s been awhile since I’ve made this kind of post on here.  October 2011, to be exact.  I looked it up.  I thought I had done one much more recently – I guess that tells me how fast 2011 and 2012 went by.  My novel writing is continuing to pick up.  It’s been very difficult for me since October…but it’s slowly getting easier.

Life is going well.

I’m slowly chipping away at my Opus Prelude revision – which I’ll cover later.

It’s weird to think that it’s almost March.  2013 is going by quickly too.  I need life to slow down a little.  Or I need more hours in the day.  Someone get on that! I would like more hours in the day – STAT.  It would make everything much easier.

Anyway…current projects and issues.  It’s no secret that I’m always working on something.  I love writing ad I love creating new universes to play around in.  2012 was a fantastic year for that.