{"id":415,"date":"2014-04-03T22:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2014-04-03T22:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:18:21","slug":"whan-that-aprill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2014\/04\/03\/whan-that-aprill\/","title":{"rendered":"Whan that Aprill…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"033\"<\/a>I’m not participating in NaPoWriMo<\/a> (National Poetry Writing Month) in any official way, but I have set myself a writing goal for April: to write something new every day, whether it’s poetry or prose. Shitty or good, three words or three thousand – it doesn’t matter, as long as I write something. <\/p>\n

The first three days, it’s been poetry. I’ve opened up something in myself again – poetry feels easy as breathing right now. It’s not always good poetry, of course not; but then again, not every breath you take is amazing. Sometimes you don’t breathe deep enough, sometimes you inhale someone’s cigarette smoke. But every breath means you’re alive. <\/p>\n

Same with poetry (and other writing too): in first\/zero drafts, there will be shitty lines, unfortunate word choices, ideas that just don’t work. Some of the problems can be eliminated when editing, and sometimes a poem just isn’t meant to go further than the initial word-blargh. But it’s all writing, and that makes it valuable. When I write, when I’m all a-flutter with word-wonder, it’s worth all the stilted sentences and unviable ideas, as long as I keep on going. All that is gold does not glitter in the first draft! <\/p>\n

I’m going to share today’s poem here because it’s just a silly little thing, born out of my frustration at the changeable weather. It’s also a homage to those two famous April poets: Geoffrey Chaucer and T.S. Eliot. April invariably makes me start quoting The Canterbury Tales <\/em>and The Waste Land<\/em> to myself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Fool April<\/b><\/p>\n

April, you old trickster
\npouring rain-sleet-snow
\nlong after we thought
\nwe were done with all that \u2013
\nno shoures soote <\/em>these!
\nYou batter us with change,
\nteasing us with dreams
\nof sun-warmth and spring<\/p>\n

and then, cackling,
\nyou pelt us with winter’s
\nfoulest leftover scraps.
\nCruellest month, indeed. <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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