Creating

When I was in college at Farmington I took a poetry class one summer as I needed a literature class to graduate.

This is one of the poems I wrote. We found the folder when we were going through things to clear out the back room to make into my MK room.  I still like this one. And yes I got chills a while ago when I read it again.

Creating

I like the feeling I get

When wet paint

            Slides together to form

A new combination of colors

One color adjoining another

In harmony -- or not

To achieve that chill

             That starts at the hair

And crawls down the back

Writing is a challenge

To find the right word

The right way to put a phrase

            Commas, semicolons; and

And the rest

Fascinate me

Words on the page

Lovingly screaming at the writer

And reader -- stop! -- go!

            Continue on your way

Leading to the conclusion

Pictures in words

Words in paintings

Achieve the ultimate scene

            A release -- a tension --

An excitement -- that's the goal

written by 

Linda Gowan

July 8, 2003

let me know what you think.

More later, Linda