So this ‘Review of the Process’ is looking at the most recent series of Poems looking into the Cycle of the Moon. The main aim of this was to look into our own cycles and how we reflect upon them, referring to day and night, different days, the seasons. How do we act within these cycles.
The process of writing these poems was to write them as I went along. So each poem was written in the hour or so before it was posted (on Instagram – some of my poems at the top of the cycle were posted a bit later than the actual meeting of the cycle). This was designed in a way that my spirit was at its peak within that portion of the cycle, as in I was acting off the impulses that the cycle there afforded of me. I did have various ideas writing these oems that didn’t quite fit the current poem, so those ideas were used at a later date.
Where I felt that this process was the right one to use was in the fact that it felt very natural. I was going off the cycles that the moon had afforded me, which would also feed off the people that surrounded me as well. This meant that when it came to writing the poem, I was already in the mood, which brings me to one of my favourite quotes, which I think as Abraham Lincoln: “If I had 6 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend 5 hours sharpening my Axe”. In theory, this meant that when the time came to writing my poem, I was in the best situation to produce the best work I could.
However, it’s true that some times I wasn’t really sharpening that axe. Don’t get me wrong, I stuck to the script as much as possible, but where I would have 5 days to work on the Waxing Gibbous, for example, I would no be writing the poem until the last day – which meant that there were many moods that I missed out on. Further, in these five days, I may have gone one or two days without even thinking of the next poem – this could have been in the form of:
- Finding new words rather than overusing certain ones (I felt Rise and Smile were two words that became repetitious)
- Developing the story and thinking about what could come next
- Certain rhymes may have developed the story better do
In short, in these moments, I wasn’t sharpening my axe so I wasn’t creating the best work that I could.
But that comes with practise.
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