1. I changed the name of my blog. "Seattle, Ho" was temporary because I lacked creativity to come up with a good name. At the time. This morning, though, I started reading Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and found this tucked into one of the verses: "Nature without check with original energy." I liked it and I do not feel that I changed the name of the blog to "Original Energy" cause it sounds cool. That would be gay. I think I've read enough Whitman to know what he is saying and appreciate it on a deeper level.
2. I wrote a poem based on that phrase from Whitman. I'm a little timid about sharing though. I've written sucky poems and I've read sucky poems and they can be painful. And I've read lots of sucky published poems, too so I don't have any illusions about how good my poem will be. But then again, maybe two people read this blog so who cares?
I like the poem. It didn't start out as a poem but when I read through what I had written I realized I could make it into that format. I was drinking coffee at Starbucks and listening to Jon Foreman when I wrote it. Those are always inspiring things so if the poem turns out to be good, I'll know who to thank.
I'll post it tomorrow....meanwhile, photos of two of my favorite poets of all time:
Walt Whitman
Dylan Thomas
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