Saturday Spotlight for July 6th, 2013

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Today's featured deviant is:
callerofcrows!

Questions

 

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing.

I fell in love with poetry because it's packing as much imagery as possible into these little, powerful phrases. There's so much you can do with it. The challenge that comes with being original also makes it fun. I particularly love getting picky over what words I choose. Each word contributes to the overal tone, so I like really paying attention to which ones I choose.

Words with nearly identical meanings can drastically alter the tone of a poem. Most of this comes out when reading a poem aloud. If I wanted to paint a picture of something that's painful and dragging on, I'd choose the word that sounded heavier and slower. I like thinking of each word as having a hue--bluer words are sad, yellow words have more energy, red words are passionate, etc. Sometimes combining those "colors" helps me to see what feeling carries strongest in the poem, and I work from there.

2. How do you feel about dA as a literature community?

I think that the dA literature community is fantastic! We're really supportive of one another, and we're all for helping each other get ahead, minus the occasional troll. I even met my current boyfriend through the dA lit community. We've been dating for 8 months, so I'd say the community is great at bringing people together and making strong relationships as well. :] I just wish dA lit got as much attention as visual art!

3. Where do your best ideas come from? Is it mostly internal, or do you prefer to pull from your environment?

My best ideas, I think, come from both internal inspiration and the environment. A lot of what I write comes from personal emotion. I'm super-emotional, so strong feelings are easy for me to pen. Then I just look around for imagery I can pull from my environment to really hammer my points home.

Other ideas come from imagery in my head that I visualize when I listen to music. I love making stories in my head when I listen to musical scores. If I try to write poems to music with words, I usually wind up copying the rhythm, which makes the poems read out awkward later. Whoops!

4. What kind of themes do you like to incorporate in your writing?

This is a difficult question! I'm not sure if I write to any particular theme so much as I just incorporate what I'm feeling in a particular moment. I notice that a lot of my poems deal with connection--whether that's to other people, places, or moods. I also love personification, particularly of nature. (I sound really crunchy-granola here, don't I?)

5. Do you ever re-write your pieces, or do you let them come as they will? How long do you have to work on a piece before you can consider it "finished?"

I don't usually rewrite my pieces; I don't think I've re-written any here, at least! Sometimes I'll go back and re-do a line or two. I've noticed that a lot of times, my opinion of the poem changes after I've let it season for a bit. Poems I think are terrible look alright, and poems I think are brilliant read back horribly! Some of that factors into public opinion as well. At least one of my poems that's garnered a DLD or DD are far from my best work, but people like them!

Poetry

MusingI'm too young to spend my life
running from the thunder,
staring at the kitchen walls wondering
how life would be different
if they weren't the same color.
"Musing" by callerofcrows


Two-TonedSepia,
like you,
it's pronounced two ways.
Seep-ee-ah.
Long, slow,
a sleepy murmur drawn.
It reminds me of your patience
when you held me
as I sobbed into your scarf,
your voice leaving me warm,
brown along the edges.
Sep-ee-ah.
Short.
Curt.
A sterner picture
of soldiers long dead,
a reprimand.
A glare.
This is how you tell me
I'm wrong--
sharp as a bayonet,
the edge of your mouth
a gun.
Warm.
Sharp.
Tight-eyed.
Welcoming.
I could hold it
in my mouth either way,
and you are both.
"Two-Toned" by callerofcrows


MeltI prayed for rain because
once you told me
that it was your favorite thing.
The sound of it,
the way it smelled on the concrete cracked,
how it felt on your skin
if you were to step outside and
let it soak into your tired shirt.
I told you that I liked the snow,
and for me it was because
nothing was more symbolic
for how cold I am when compared to you,
how rain fights with itself when it
races down the window,
but snow is distant, aloof,
floating easy.
And if I shared that thought with you,
I know you'd tell me that
I'm just the clear sky, a blessing,
because you love me in ways
that I want to love you...
but can't.
So you call me fair now but
give it time and I know that
you will cloud, and grow to
hate the snowfall, while I
begin to wish I could melt for you.
"Melt" by callerofcrows


BibliophiliaBook.
Even the way
that syllable sits on my tongue
feels like sinking into mellow lamp-light,
delicious as prying a secret
from lips sworn shut.
"Bibliophilia" by callerofcrows




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