First off, I apologize for the lateness of this post. Crazy RL issues [including a lingering illness and a big craft show] and intermittent internet kind of conspired against me getting this posted up in a far more timely manner.

Just a quick clarification FYI :: There are no links to teganwl's images just yet. I will update them as soon as I know where she's got the images up. All of teganwl's images can be seen in this entry.

For October, I was paired up with teganwl. We decided to do another round of poetry and imagery, each of us creating something initially to send to the other for further inspiration. We didn't really decide on a theme this time around, which ended up being a good thing, as I let the lovely Pacific Northwest weather inspire me…

( Stage 1: three poems I wrote about fall & the image they inspiredCollapse )

( Stage 2: two images she created & the poems inspired by themCollapse )

This entire project was actually quite fun to do. I got five new poems out of it, which always makes me very happy. And the images and graphics that teganwl created are absolutely gorgeous! It was a really nice collaboration between us, I think.

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I was paired up with teganwl to create a project for the month of August, right?

The Set Up
After several PMs and emails, we ended up deciding on a project of teganwl taking photographs that I would interpret via poetry. I was actually quite stoked by this idea, to be honest, as it was something different for me to try.

I was sent one picture in mid-August, but set it aside for nearly two weeks to get some other things taken care of first. Last week, I sat down to work on my poetry based on the single photograph I was given [due to issues with models for other photographs]. Normally when I write poetry, I start out in my poetry notebook, then finalize and type it up into a Word file, right? For whatever reason, this time I just started typing right into Word. Imagine my surprise Wednesday night when I went to grab said file and somehow couldn't find it to open it. At first I thought I must have had a corrupt file somewhere that I couldn't open. Then, after doing a search, I realized I simply couldn't find the file. Basically, I'd typed up the poems while doing other writing projects that involved opening and closing a lot of files, including some temporary files. Yeah, I closed out the poetry file without saving it, assuming it was just another temp file that didn't need to be saved.

So I wracked my brain last night, trying to remember enough of what I'd done to re-cobble the poems together, as I'd kind of liked them. But I couldn't do it. So today, I just started over. Four poems came out, based on the photo below.

The Project
( The photographic half of the project.Collapse )

And now, the poems... I wrote 4 poems, each in a different form. They were all based on either a certain word count or syllable count. In order, the forms I used are diamante, mirror tetractys, double etheree, and triple naani. All formats were found on one of my favorite poetry sites, Shadow Poetry.com.

( The poems based on the photograph.Collapse )

The Wrap Up
I really enjoyed doing this project. It made me look at my poetry with a definitely external source, which was a fascinating experience. I love that I was able to weave four different poems out of that one picture, each a little different from the next. Of course, looking at the picture and teganwl's titling of her post that has the pic, I'm seeing that she was working toward more of a zombie approach. But I suppose murder and killing aren't really all that far off, whether it's zombies or "regular" people, right? Just the initial intent and possibly methods would change.

Definitely interested in doing a project like this again. So much so that I'm signed up again for a September project over at 2xcreative.

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