Wanting a Little Less Drama - #9 of the 365 Collage Poetry Challenge

And we're back to the present after a little time travelling.




Easter Monday and another market on the way home. Again, very little in the way of magazines so I didn't make any purchases. In retrospect, I'm kicking myself for not buying an antiquarian book on scripture illustrations. It was a large format book, and the seller said it was published in 1899 although I didn't verify the date within the cover. I wanted to think about it, and go back later. Besides I would've had to ask Robbie to hand some money over for me to purchase it. And then it started to pour with rain, and we ran back to the car, and I forgot all about it. I can't even remember the exact title so I can't torture myself by googling to find out it was worth a fortune.


At the market was the silver statue. The little kid told him it was easy to stand still for long periods of time, so the statue got down from his platform and dared the kid to try it.




Today's collage is a wish of how I'd like things to be:

Copyright 2007 Diane Curran

Art of Being You #7 of the 365 Day Collage Poetry Challenge

On Easter Saturday, we discovered some markets at Laurieton, but not much in the way of magazines. I came away, unusually, empty-handed.

Saturday afternoon, I decided to throw in a bit of colour to the day's collage poem.

Copyright 2007 Diane Curran

THE ART OF BEING YOU

Don't Panic

Imagine a Blank Canvas

Ignite Your Senses

See how it feels...

Discover broader horizons

Experiment with

Creative dynamique

Risky Expression

Unreal Dreams

With Attitude

Attractive Newcomer #6 of the 365 Collage Poetry Challenge

I'm back after my Easter weekend holiday. Before you blink at the date of the posting, I'm manipulating the dates to remain faithful to my collage poem a day.

As you can see from the photo above, I busied myself with collaging on my retreat. Far from the reaches of the internet, and forced inside by intermittent rain, I busied myself with my drawers of words. I have an elaborate system set up and it proved to travel very well. The yellow drawer holds all my black text, the green drawer holds all the coloured text, the blue drawer holds all the super-size text, and the pink drawer has pictures, little plastic ziplock bags with words that are congregating together through shared themes or ideas, plus my scissors and my glue.

A portable collage poetry factory.





Words, words everywhere....

And now for the first one off the factory production line...

Copyright 2007 Diane Curran

The Text

People said

Beware

Attractive newcomer

entertaining Rich

Genius

The Wine is Everything

You like him and he likes you

But keep your knickers on

It's up to you to mention his

Baggage

Women Family Religious Beliefs

Could this be

too good to be true

All men are toxic #5 of the 365 Collage Poetry Challenge

Copyright 2007 Diane Curran

POEM TEXT:

She madly in love

He not so

Humiliated after a night of passion

Mortifying moments

Stiff Sentences Banished Words

Romance Angst

Love-Gone-Wrong

If only she had a

Window into the male mind

Found out the hard way

All men are toxic for now.

Okay, so today wasn't a good day as this poem indicates. I'm sure I'll like men again tomorrow, and one in particular.

This is the last post until after Easter because I'm going off the internet grid. Perhaps it will wean me off my internet addicition.

The 365 Day Collage Poetry Challenge

I've been inspired by World of Cow where Stik produced a cow cartoon every day for 365 days, so I've set myself a daily collage poetry challenge.

From April 1, I will produce a new collage poem every day and this is not an April Fool's joke. I want to stretch myself and challenge my creativity even on the days that the muse wants to run and hide.

My only disclaimer is that I will not be able to post the poems every single day, as there will be days that I have no internet access such as Easter, but on these occasions, I plan to catch up with multiple postings, separately dated.

I'm thinking of having some sort of penalty if I don't meet my challenge. Any suggestions?

Meanwhile, to warm up, I'll post the collage poem I completed at the Writers Retreat for my friend Jennifer, who is seeking a new life in Melbourne.

Here is Enough Already!

Copyright 2007 Diane Curran

Enough Already!

Bad Dreams

Alien Sighting

Life is really shit

Bugger it!

Enough Already!

Get Happy

Know thyself

Make an impact...

Write the word

Use it or lose it

Art is important

Literally

Tap into your gut instinct and trust your inner voice

Words to Fly By