Friday, 8 May 2009

A Necklace of Liquid Gold...

Welcome to my 'Bristol Floating Harbour' blog (or my 'FLOG', as I will henceforth call it ... FLoating Harbour BlOG). Aims of said FLOG:
  • location location location (or, in this case 'process process process'). I thought it may be interesting, as I develop the poem over the next 5 or 6 weeks more (I started way back in March, sorry) to share the process of poetic composition. Maybe or maybe not ... I have my own individual way of going about composing, dunno how anyone else does it, but there you go, I thought it may be of interest to follow that process, and it may inspire you to invent your own method (remember: no-one, absolutely no-one, knows how to write a poem ... except YOU)
  • it's a useful place for me to try out stuff, and an experiment in public composition. I write 10-100 times more than gets into the final work - what ends up on the cutting room floor, and why?
  • it's a 'noticeboard' to pin things on
  • it's so you can comment (I suppose I'm asking for it...)

This

Floating Harbour:

a liquid necklace of

water wherein

Frome Maidens gambol

amidst the mumblings

of History; a

secret harbour

woven around Avon,

spun

on a distaff of land and

stone by Saxons,

Normans;

whose

threads reach out to

Ireland, Africa, the

Amerikees.