seeing the divine (a first draft)

if you’re not a person who likes a lot of hulla-balloo about process, you should probably forget we ever met. no hard feelings. i just can’t get enough of it. i love writers who are transparent about their writing lives and their process, and i enjoy sharing the muck i slosh around in before i get anything coherent.

so even though i have a piece (a draft) of a poem for the read write prompt, i want to show you what i’m working with:

#1 / a quote: The fault is in the blamer. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. ~Rumi

#2 / excerpts from a free write (posted previously).

so here’s the piece …

it is an experiment for me and a divergence from What I Usually Write. earlier in the summer, i set a goal of writing a prayer poem and i had no luck. looks like i just found some.

THIS PIECE WAS A FIRST DRAFT, REMOVED BY THE AUTHOR FOR REVISION AFTER A 2-WEEK “LIVE” RUN.

seeing the divine (a free write)

i am trying, a little late, to work with the current read write prompt about the divine and where it can be found (ren said it so eloquently; be sure to visit it). here’s my free write, which went absolutely nowhere. but because i’m stubborn and pig-headed, i’m going to squeeze something out of it.

but first, i’m sharing it. remember, it takes guts to do this. it’s not my first time sharing free writes but it is my first time here on the new blog. so just a reminder that this is free flow writing and it doesn’t have to be good or make any kind of sense.

here it is (although they weren’t in the free write, i added paragraph breaks so you wouldn’t go cross-eyed trying to keep up):