Nearing the end

of NaPoWriMo - National Poetry Writing Month. I've posted a pome a day. These are rough drafts, first thoughts, unedited scrawl. The theme was my trip to Vietnam. I don't leave them on the web for long periods of time after the initial work. So, read 'em while they're hot, because I will pull them off & there won't be any drafts left to read.

At that point, I begin my revision process. I might keep a line or two, a phrase. But first draft, for me, is about capturing the initial idea - like hewing a block of marble from the mountainside. It'll be through the editing process that something I would show a reader arises.

This link will be broken in the future, until then, my rough stuff (some pictures included)