Sunday, November 06, 2005

POST NUMBER 50 and something to celebrate *pop pop fizz fizz*

Hooray for Post #50! My dashboard kindly reminded me that the definition of "blue-stockings" was post #49, so I promised myself that Post #50 would be commorated, if not celebrated. Being that it's 1:30 AM and I'm somewhat giddy after watching 4 episodes of Gilmore Girls season 1 back to back, I am just going to offer the tidbit of a poem I started and ask for a vote for the next entry(s). Okay...poem. It's blank verse and I'm trying to enjamb as many lines as possible - very Browning - and am trying to go for the whole modern allegory by re-vamping the "Vanity Fair" portion of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. We'll see. This is just what I churned out this morning before crawling back under the covers.

A pilgrim weary long on tired feet,
I crossed the threshold of a tempting den
Completely lined with treasures of the world,
Designed to draw the pious from the path.
I, knowing every airport for its true
Report among the ones who lived to tell
The dangers of this new Vanity Fair.
On one wall: coffee meant only for kings
Whose wealth could save the hungry in the world
Next to a House of Books of goodly names
Which at their weight in gold can pilgrims buy
A tome of great importance to their hearts
Or booklets, inexpensive, trite, and smut.

Now it's your turn to choose! I'm going to finish the poem, I promise, but I want you few dedicated readers to choose the next piece(s) I publish here.

1) Chapters from one of my novels
2) The "if only..." series of poems I wrote in high school, possibly expanding on them
3) Short stories from the Confessions from the Late Shift anthology
4) (Write-In Option...send me ideas if you're not into the ones above!)

Yay post fifty! Yay readers! Yay giving AJ ideas! Yay sleep...

2 remarks:

Gato said...

Well, I would like to hear it all, why limit your posts? Hmm... what I'd like to hear next...whatever you FEEL like posting. Love love you!

AJ said...

I want an opinion! I'm writing whatever I want, but I wanted to change the style up for post #51! I demand another comment!!! >.< (lol) Love you, too, Gato!