Words

I love writing. I like writing poems of any kind, or short stories, or really just putting ink on a page. Now, I don’t think anything I’ve ever written is particularly wonderful. But, I cannot draw. I can play an instrument, but it’s the clarinet and it does not allow for as much creative outlet as a guitar, say.
But writing down words is something that I am halfway decent at. Not too many words though; I start to loose steam in a story after about 600 or so. I think my longest one is still a couple hundred words short of 2,000.

Another think I love is structure. What do you get when you combine the two? Certain types of poems! Haikus have a very specific structure syllable wise. Limericks have a specific structure rhyming wise. Sonnets have very specific syllable and rhyme structure!

In the past 22 hours I’ve written down 45 haikus, 1 limerick, 1 sonnet and 1 page long “character study” about my friend Lyndsi’s walls; they’re very interesting walls you see.

I like the structure because… well, I actually wrote I haiku about that earlier on. Lets have a look:

I use borders to
See what magical things I
Can create in them

I love the bit of a challenge restriction brings. I’m forced to use new or different words, sometimes to use contractions like “e’re” and “o’re” that we don’t often use. For sonnets, for example, the whole direction of your poem can change depending upon the word you sick at the end of a line. I love quickly exploring the different paths before blindly choosing one and thundering on ahead.

Words are powerful. If you are good enough with them, the right string of words you can make people feel almost any emotion you choose. That is a potent tool.