http://townx.org/blog/elliot/my-favourite-thing-i-wrote-2007 Comments for "My favourite thing I wrote in 2007" en http://townx.org/blog/elliot/my-favourite-thing-i-wrote-2007#comment-22001 <p>Lots of stuff in the works, good and bad. Finally added an entry to the blog. Short though.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:14:25 -0600 Natalie Andrew comment 22001 at http://townx.org http://townx.org/blog/elliot/my-favourite-thing-i-wrote-2007#comment-20996 <p>Thanks. I'm really pleased someone bothered to comment on my writing. I like this one. It seems to survive being re-read by me, which is a good sign. When are we going to see some more of your writing? Eh?</p> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:36:11 -0600 elliot comment 20996 at http://townx.org http://townx.org/blog/elliot/my-favourite-thing-i-wrote-2007#comment-20979 <p>Oooo, this is good, begs for re-reading which I like. Favourite bits:</p> <p>curved loop of the seagull's call</p> <p>thin scent of dog roses, stroked flat by rising wind</p> <p>an anemone mauls the peaks</p> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:20:00 -0600 Natalie Andrew comment 20979 at http://townx.org http://townx.org/blog/elliot/my-favourite-thing-i-wrote-2007 <p>I do a lot of computer programming, watching <span class="caps">DVD</span>s and so forth. But I have a lot of passion for writing. I write a lot of poetry. I know it's not fashionable, but I still do it, whenever the mood takes me. Last year I tried to write for at least 5 minutes every day, with varying success: I eventually stopped doing that, but did carry on writing, sometimes poring over a single poem for two or three weeks while travelling to work on the bus. Occasionally I wrote something good.</p> <p>This is what I consider one of the best things I wrote last year. I did it on holiday in Wales, sitting in a car park while Nicola and Madeleine were going to the toilet or something. They were away for about 20 minutes, and I put together various bits of imagery from the car park and the rest of the holiday. I then wrote it up a few months later. I like the result. I don't think it's too pretentious (you might disagree), though on reflection it is a bit overwritten; though I think it genuinely has a fair few good lines. Here it is.</p> <h2>Welsh car park 2007-10-28</h2> <p>Queen Mab complains to crows about the gulls;<br /> hobgoblins lunge from mossy limbs<br /> with knotted arms, heads like balls of twine</p> <p>the brow of the landscape frowns;<br /> pleats of forest shake down the crag's skirt,<br /> a mountain's shoulder shrugs above an elbow lake</p> <p>as secret waterfalls shudder pebbles;<br /> starlings cascade from the oak like gypsy pegs<br /> round caravan steps; a row of recycling bins -</p> <p>helmets of buried faery kings,<br /> or giants' trepanned skulls; slapping feet<br /> on the caravan roof, the curved loop of the seagull's call</p> <p>a smell of dust in a vast car park<br /> tumbles into thin scent of dog roses, stroked flat<br /> by rising wind; a fringe of cloud like an anemone mauls</p> <p>the peaks; crab skeleton, flesh scooped out;<br /> our skeletons, green with algae, in the estuary flats -<br /> we drive away too fast, and leave these things behind</p> http://townx.org/blog/elliot/my-favourite-thing-i-wrote-2007#comments texts misc Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:34:12 -0600 elliot 697 at http://townx.org