AROW80 Easter Sunday and Poetry

Happy Easter/Ostara, Dear Readers!

Hope to got all the jelly beans, peeps, and chocolate bunnies to wanted! I also hope you got to spend time with your loved ones to celebrate in whatever way to choose to celebrate; whether cooking ham for dinner, going to Easter Service, Blessing the Basket, going on Easter Egg Hunts, Rolling eggs down hills, Going to Easter brunch, or watching silly stupid Easter movie with your husband, I hope you've had a fabulous day, Dear Readers!

Today is also the Pagan Holiday of Ostara, the Spring Festival welcoming Spring with the new growth, new beginnings, bunnies, and eggs (to name a dew). It is a time to celebrate the new beginnings of the Spring Maiden and the Horned God's reign upon the world' also the growing season begins and the fertility rites, and chocolate bunnies (okay that's a modern tradition, but you get my point).

My Ostara began with a fantastic morning of sleeping in. The sun was out and it was gorgeous and I decided to open the windows a spend the morning reading. I finished reading "The Hunger Games" and started "Catching Fire". Today was a good day of rest.

Yesterday was the Keuka Lake Players performed the first performance of "The Tempest" at Hammondsport Central School. We had a good crowd, smaller, but a responsive one. it felt good to be performing Shakespeare again. The Avoca performance is on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday are the Bath performances. I really do love playing Trinculo, the drunken court jester, there is something about playing the fool that is fum It also helps that I get to act over the top and silly with my husband and one of my best friends, Sara.

The writing's been a little sparse this past week. I have been keeping up on my blog challenges, but Camp NaNoWriMo has falling to the wayside. Not trying to, but my days last were long and  some days were harder to find the time to write. Usually writing while being tech rehearsals and performances is difficult, but still manageable. I have not completely given up hope on getting to 50,000 words. It'll be a stretch, but the last week of Camp NaNo I plan on writing like crazy to try and make up. Not gonna give up!

Today's NaPoWriMo poem is written from the perspective of Wendy Love, my 3 1/2 year old friend and daughter to Sara Love who plays Stephano, the drunken butler in KLP's production in "The Tempest". {insert plug here}

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Meditations of Wendy Love

I should think that the best times

Are with my Mommy—

When we are watching

The Funny Doctor and Amy Pond

Or chasing elephants in Banana Pants.

It an inside joke,

And I laugh so much at it,

It’s funny!

And there is Charlie Brown

With his funny voices.

He and Miss Cindy, 

they are my friends and

Tell me stories—

Stories about Butterfly Princesses

And Little Girls named Sophie.

I love my Mommy and Daddy,

And there’s my Sissy, Daphne,

And then, Brocket-Man.

My life is pretty good,

With ponies,

Dragons,

And dinosaurs.

Oh My!

I am happy singing

“Let it Go” with Mommy

And dancing in my tutus

To the sounds of Queen

And

The Who

With Daddy.

These are the best times.

8:31 pm

Sunday AROW80 check in: Warm Sunshine and Writing to make my Fingers Bleed

It's been a stellar day and even more stellar weekend. The weather has been cooperating with 70 to 80 degrees and theatre stuffs and writing, oh my!!

I have spent much of my Sunday writing on my WIP "Beyond the Mountains" my project for CampNaNoWriMo, the novel writing challenge that falls in April. Which upon reflection has to be the busiest month. With all of the projects and theatre stuffs that I am involved in and Dear Readers, so of you have been following my passage through this month. So you know how busy I have been. I signed up for CampNaNo with the purpose of writing. I need to make myself write. Once I am in the habit of writing daily, it that much easier to write when NaNo is NOT going on. just as my journaling time was once a forced habit, it has now become easier to do, so must my desire to write everyday, whether it be poetry, stories, or a blog.

That is what this weekend is about. I had time to myself and a novel in progress. So, on went some of my Protagonist music: Hannah-Rei, Meghan Andrews, and Lindsay Katt and with my coffee I have written 3,543 words today. I am sooooo far behind my CampNaNoWriMo word count. Today total should be 21,666 words and yet I am at only at 15,245 words at 6:50pm. But I am determined. I started this journey and I will finish. I may not make the 50,000 word mark by Apriln 30th, but I am going to try my darnedest.

Is it possible to catch up, being that far behind?

I think...NO, I know so! Why? Because I will, that's why!

I have been getting in touch with my protagonists, a 16 year old woman, Walelea Jones and some guy name Markus goofy guys that hangs with a dragon. It's a little adventure story, with a dash of fantasy, and some self discovery. A genre that I am writing consistently in. Maybe I'll call it 'Self Fanti-Aventure'.

Also, I have been keeping up with NaPoWriMo and the Blogging A to Z challenges. Nothing new on my WIP short stories, but I am making my way through "The Hunger Games" series. Today was such a beautiful day and I feel good. I just wanted to thanks all of you, Dear Readers and Bloggers. Thank you for the words of encouragement and comments. It means a lot to this little ol' writer!

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Now, I present my NaPoWriMo poem featuring a few

kennings; (derived from Old Norse) a type of metaphorical compound word or phrase used as an allusion to a simpler idea which (at the time) would be readily recognized by the audience. For example, "whale-road" would imply "ocean".

To Find the Paths

Walking along the Hard Path

With the Heaven’s Ball to light my way--

I am warmed,

Yet I was lost

Following the hard path along the Steel Jungle.

Here the steel trees

That house the world's denizens.

All whom seem lost,

But I am not lost.

I know where the Dirt Paths flow

The ones that lead to the old places

One the trees and Earth Peoples places.

In feel less alone when I am with the Earth People,

Hearing the Singing Breaths

And feeling the Fingers of Heaven

Brush my face.

Here is my home,

Even though I live within

The Steel Trees.

One does not have to feel lost

With the Steel Jungle

To find their way back to

The Dirt Paths of the Earth People

To know where they have come from.

Once born to the Earth,

Forever of the Earth.

Just follow any of the Hard Paths,

They lead to the Dirt Paths

Once there you will always find the way.

7:17 pm

 

A to Z Challenge: B is for Busy

This month is all about the busy. I am not kidding, April is a month full of theatre events and shows and lots and lots of writing. See, there comes a time when I realize that the winter months have gotten me dried up and uninspired. February and March definitely fell into this category. I was far less productive than previous months. It was like I was dropped in the middle of a desert and left to find my way way, and thus by April, POOF I have found a veritable oasis of muses and forms of expression. This includes the "Blogging A to Z Challenge" an obvious choice. Some of what my April will be including is:

*NaPoWriMo: the month long, poem a day challenge.

*Camp NaNoWriMo: the sibling to November's NaNoWriMo challenge, 50, 000 words in 30 days.

*Keuka Lake Player's production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest", most of you Dear Reader's are familiar with my blogs about this, but to the new Folks, I have been working on "The Tempest" since January.

*The Lake Country Player's 24 Hour Theatre and Lake Country Improve: the former is this Saturday and the latter runs one show a month April to August in Montour Falls, NY.

*On the production team (props and sets) for LCP's junior player's "Zombeo and Juliet".

*Plus trying to see fellow thespians productions and social gatherings this month and keeping my house clean and working my day job.

~DEEP BREATH~

So, yes, Dear Readers, B is for Busy, but B is also for Beautiful and I am quite happy with my Beautiful and Busy life! Have a great day and week!!