Looking forward to creative purging tomorrow. Participating in this marathon really helps motivate me to pull deep from within. The feeling of camaraderie of writing alongside other poets is inspiring. The prompts work for me, they help me try to do something different and new rather than the familiar writing habits I fall back on.

I surround myself with plenty of healthy food options (lots of fresh fruit and nuts), I work out here and there and take hikes on my property to initiate my poetic intellect. I have plenty of my favorite poetry anthologies and books within in reach, and inspiring movies ready to play. AND MUSIC!!! All this is maintenance, I actually prefer silence when writing.

My biggest challenge with writing poetry is getting too wordy and long. In fact, I don’t know that I have any talent, its really more of an obsession. When given time to rework and revise, my poems grow into lengthy spoken word pieces rather than poetry. The Poetry Marathon has always kind of forced me to do these one-shot type purges that keep my poems raw, unfiltered, and succinct.

I would like to be able to participate from my phone this year, but I am having trouble with enabling cookies through the Word press Browser on my Samsung S9. If I could write from my phone, it would make me a little more mobile throughout the marathon. But I can hang around the old desktop, I was planning on doing that for most of the marathon anyways.

 

Good luck to all!