This is one of several poems I’ve written in the last few days as we were asked to write a poem to share with the writing class this evening. What I’m about to share with you know is the one I had intended to share with the class… But, the greater news is that I didn’t share this one. Instead, I shared the one I posted last night (‘Courage’) and it went down very well.
My tutor commented that I ‘describe a lot with very few words’, or something to that effect. I also heard a definite ‘I like it!‘ from one of the others in the class! 😎
It was great to hear everyone else’s work and how, again, everyone had created and shared something different. I was worried that people might think of mine as being a bit dark or something but, no other comments were made and it wasn’t as if people began to inch further away from me with their seats! 😉
We’ve got two weeks before (along with the others) I’m expected to share the short story I haven’t even begun to write yet. We also have another homework assignment and I really need to sit down and put myself in a position to write freely and in good time. I have bad habits that lead me towards blogging and e-mailing others that distract me from my work. No disrespect to any of you and please do not feel as though you may have to change anything; I’m the one who needs to stop procrastinating and leaving things until the final evenings when I’m already tired from work.
I manage to pick up on a few points in the story we read through tonight, which is good, considering I have such difficulty concentrating and remembering what I have read, especially when someone else is reading aloud. I feel kind of guilty sometimes as others seem to pick up on some much more. I never grasp it first time. If there’s one disappointment though, it’s that I didn’t seize a potential opportunity to help someone who asked the group for a lift to her car. No-one else was going that way and, although it would’ve meant a minor diversion on my journey home, I would’ve been happy to help. I felt it would’ve been awkward though as we’ve not even said hello and, to be fair, she seemed to direct her question to the other end of the room.
Still, I shouldn’t dwell on things like this. Please continue reading to see the poem that I was going to share:
If you’re in or have seen news from the UK recently then, you shouldn’t have to think hard about what my inspiration for this piece might have been… 😉
‘As Water Falls’
As water falls
Winds collide
Descending from the Heavens
Dispersed to the sideRivers flow as
Banks burst
Saturation
Nature at its worstA force to contend with
We cannot control
Swimming for salvation
We’ll pass through this toll.
I wasn’t too sure about the last verse there and I did kind of lose interest part-way through. I kept returning to one of the other poems. I might also add that we weren’t expected to explain our poems in class, which was a bit of a relief. There was one guy who’d not written a poem before and I thought it was brilliant with so many details but also, it flowed.
Thoughts are already turning to what I might like to do in the new year, as listings for the Spring season courses have now been posted on their website. I was looking for an art course but, the one for charcoal and pastel work seems to be daytime only, which clashes with my job. There is the option of doing a one-day ‘workshop’ on a Saturday for some classes. I’m leaning towards a beginner’s course in guitar playing at the moment.
Related articles
- Water Bored (brandonbored.wordpress.com)
- What Makes a Good Poem? (thereadingworkshop.com)
- Unabridged (A Poem) (goodpoetry.org)
- Poem: ‘Courage’ (brandonbored.wordpress.com)
- My First Poem (smallthoughtsfromasmallmind.wordpress.com)
- Wordful Wednesday – A Pome (Poem) by Brad (tammystwocents.com)
beautiful.
Thank you, Roxy. 🙂
I love this 🙂
Thank you, I’m pleased you love it. 🙂