Get a blog, get a blog
I just knew I had to get a blog.
More important than making tea
Or removing the empty water bottles
From the glove well of the car or
Even checking the radiator.
Nappy needs changing I shouted
Over my shoulder in hope
That my wife wouldn't consider
It a joke. Hope that she'd understand
The importance of me
Getting a blog.
After scribbling since my teens, I have just had my second acceptance for one of my poems to be published. I had set my sights on doing some dedicated writing over this summer but after feeling completely fried at the summer break up, I needed most of the time up till now to relax and chill. I had just reached a crossroads where work and my pastimes intersected. Which to give priority to? I am fairly successful at work and know I have a hell of a lot more to offer the school.If I concentrate hard on work for the next five or six years then I can buy a lovely house for my lovely wife and lovely daughter, set ourselves up and then give time to my writing, but I love writing and know to get better I need to concentrate even more. Every aspect of life tells you to work hard to gain success. Success in my writing would mean getting to grips more with form and having different metrics at my finger tips and that would require oodles of hard work. Bus loads of hard work. I feel more like the Bank Holiday Extra Service than the regular 3.30 into town. I'd settle for feeling like somebody's regular lift to work rather than a once a year visit to Grandma's. Anyway I have written casually (describing posture and output) over the summer and my two aims which were to send off some of my poems to competitions and to start a blog were undone. This left me feeling undone too. I am easily undone, unbuttoned, sometimes as easy as unzipped. But equally it doesn't take much encouragement to get me excited, inflated - done up. In a frenzied burst I sent off five submissions on Sunday evening. Can the number five be classed as a frenzy? Okay more a fevered burst than a frenzy. And low and behold I have an immediate response for 'The September Poem of the Month'. Woohoo.
The poem will be published on the Manchester Libraries website. Let me keep the poem and the website address for another day. Allow me a fanfare and further blog post celebration.
5 comments:
Good blog, really enjoyed reading it.
Thanks Jac, I appreciate the time taken to read it.
Congratulations on Poem of the month! I look forward to reading that!
Do you take requests?
A blog on railings and another on plastic bags would be appreciated. I find that both make for fascinating conversation and think they could really work in your blog!
P.S Pineapple
Hey Ricky! Mr Pickersgill would be so proud....Larkin poems!
Get a blog well worth the read!
BTW...I totally forgot I started one of these ages ago. Its nothing you havent seen before but always nice to look back on old stuff: http://fifteen-jugglers.blogspot.com/
Iǘe just come to the end of an incredible week at the university in Santiago de Compostella but logged on before I leave to check whatś going on in the world. Read your blog and loved it. I couldn't help drawing a comparison between your dilemna of whether to pursue the painful route of learning about structure etc in order to improve your poetry, and mine of whether to continue putting myself through the pain barrier in order to improve my Spanish by opting to do the next level course next year. I don't want the academics but know that structure underpins the language and it is a good way for me to improve. Believe me , never in a month of Sundays as my Dad used to say, did I ever envisage being back in this academic atmosphere! But what fun! What a rebirth! What a confidence booster when you've put your neck on the line and won through!I highly recommend it!
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