Write your last creative piece to submit online. Combine poetry and prose in an experimental piece. Use the principles we have covered this semester.
”Letters Written & Answered” is a major category in WhereIDwell.news, a blog still in development. What follows here is being submitted as a ”Final piece of writing” for Dr. Kathleen Hudson’s Creative Writing Class.
This is an actual photo taken during class. Look carefully, you can almost hear a main principle — as I am hearing at this very moment — coming from Dr. K’s lips, ”SNAG THE MOMENT”. It’s 12:53 AM, I’m snagging it!
Subcategories of Letters Written & Answered in Where I Dwell are broadly grouped as:
Physical Dwelling: Our homes, communities, country…
Personal Dwelling: When our minds take us to friends, family, health challenges, careers…
Ethereal Dwelling: Merriam-Webster defines ethereal as:
- of or relating to the regions beyond the earth
- celestial, heavenly
- unworldly, spiritual
- lacking material substance
This assignment is intended to become part of an explanation of the focus of the Letters Written & Answered category. An example of a letter I wrote and posted previously, When God is Created by Man, can be found is available for review on my blog created for this class. I place this squarely in the ethereal subcategory.
My poetic contribution tries to show where my writing is taking me…
Where I Dwell
In a night filled with mad passion,
Egg & Sperm first met.
264 nights later,
I chose to offload.
I came out screaming,
Turning a mother’s pain to joy
4 walls enough for me
Wm’s cabin, my Physical abode.
What day, what hour is not filled
With thoughts that drift to those we love?
Our family, our friends
Even those that may cause grief and harm
May thoughtful letters written
Become welcome letters received
Freeing mind, body and spirit from
States of Personal alarm
Far deeper thoughts arrive unannounced
Oft times as a dream in a dark night
Or wandering along a stream, a forest path
A place, a time, no one can tell
Letters Written & Received
Transcendentally from an unknown abode
Evoke thoughts of eternity
In which to Ethereally Dwell
From the class, this piece forms a basis for another strong principle. That is, we all have stories worthy of telling and the ability to tell those stories in compelling ways. Throughout these past 6 weeks we have been given the confidence to trust in ourselves to share those stories.
