For the last few weeks I was recovering from surgery and doing well now. One thing you kindly indicated to me was that you might give me a few pointers in how I might use the Substack system.
I mentioned that I have been writing poetry for a while but looking forward to getting the views and feedback from interested others.
I hope this request is not a burden but I am the original luddite.
Hi Jim, I actually sent on an email directly to you following my original comment. It might have gotten lost in your inbox. I will check it on my end and reply to the email to try and make it more visible to you. If that doesn't work we can work something out another way!
Thanks Mike, I really appreciate the continued support.
I'll be honest, I was editing this one right up until the end and it might be the fact that I wrote it based on some source notes from so long ago that I was almost trying to remember what I felt - and that kept adjusting and changing. So it does feel like a mix of old and new, a mix of what I was thinking then and what I think now that I was thinking then... if you get me.
That particular verse, outlining the things I was seeing through the glass of the car window was straight from my notes that night and I think I was considering how the bridges would warp in a swirl around the drops of rain on the window - like a black hole on such a particularly dark and rainy night.
Oh this is very very interesting I must read into this Fourth moment - I have never really heard of that before but I am definitely interested in it after reading your description and certain I may have stumbled on that sort of idea in my own writing. I am definitely very interested in exploring existence and time and their challenges... I'll check it out, thank you!
Regarding note taking etc. I always try to have a notebook into which I write and it tends to be largely a thereputic free flowing exercise where I write about and idea or a thought for a page or two. I definitely go through periods of heavy notebook use and then sometimes not touch it for months. I have found there is a direct relationship between my mood and how frequently I use my notebook so I try to keep it up to stop from getting to anxious or whatever... I also run a lot to manage that.
The pace of writing with a pen is slower so you end up really only capturing ideas as fast as you can write and sometimes there is a shape of a sentence that you think of but then lose before you capture it... which can be frustrating but this is the process and I kind of like the beauty of that - like painting a picture every stroke can make or break a likeness and this is the same with a pen. But after I have done this I can leave it down and my mind is clearer.
Later on then I will explore my notes when looking to write something on my laptop and sometimes I find some beauty in there which I can then refine and grow into something more publishable.
And then of course other times when I am on the laptop anyway I will just start typing and creating something from scratch without ever starting on a notebook. It really depends.
This is everywhere indeed!
Gorgeous
Thanks, Jack. Hope you are well!
"The bridges warp to blackened holes,
As Sainte-Chapelle tears the sky in two."
Phew! Great stuff, David. Another beauty.
Thanks so much, Jeff! I really appreciate it.
To be there, To see. And to be seen.
Seems we are all looking to be looked at 😅
Hi David,
Belated new year greetings.
For the last few weeks I was recovering from surgery and doing well now. One thing you kindly indicated to me was that you might give me a few pointers in how I might use the Substack system.
I mentioned that I have been writing poetry for a while but looking forward to getting the views and feedback from interested others.
I hope this request is not a burden but I am the original luddite.
Kindest regards
Jim Halley
I have just sent a reply to the original email so hopefully you will see it there now.
Hi Jim, I actually sent on an email directly to you following my original comment. It might have gotten lost in your inbox. I will check it on my end and reply to the email to try and make it more visible to you. If that doesn't work we can work something out another way!
Thanks Mike, I really appreciate the continued support.
I'll be honest, I was editing this one right up until the end and it might be the fact that I wrote it based on some source notes from so long ago that I was almost trying to remember what I felt - and that kept adjusting and changing. So it does feel like a mix of old and new, a mix of what I was thinking then and what I think now that I was thinking then... if you get me.
That particular verse, outlining the things I was seeing through the glass of the car window was straight from my notes that night and I think I was considering how the bridges would warp in a swirl around the drops of rain on the window - like a black hole on such a particularly dark and rainy night.
Oh this is very very interesting I must read into this Fourth moment - I have never really heard of that before but I am definitely interested in it after reading your description and certain I may have stumbled on that sort of idea in my own writing. I am definitely very interested in exploring existence and time and their challenges... I'll check it out, thank you!
Regarding note taking etc. I always try to have a notebook into which I write and it tends to be largely a thereputic free flowing exercise where I write about and idea or a thought for a page or two. I definitely go through periods of heavy notebook use and then sometimes not touch it for months. I have found there is a direct relationship between my mood and how frequently I use my notebook so I try to keep it up to stop from getting to anxious or whatever... I also run a lot to manage that.
The pace of writing with a pen is slower so you end up really only capturing ideas as fast as you can write and sometimes there is a shape of a sentence that you think of but then lose before you capture it... which can be frustrating but this is the process and I kind of like the beauty of that - like painting a picture every stroke can make or break a likeness and this is the same with a pen. But after I have done this I can leave it down and my mind is clearer.
Later on then I will explore my notes when looking to write something on my laptop and sometimes I find some beauty in there which I can then refine and grow into something more publishable.
And then of course other times when I am on the laptop anyway I will just start typing and creating something from scratch without ever starting on a notebook. It really depends.
Oh wow thanks for sharing that, what a great meditation in and of itself!