ikolam (maloki backwards) @iko@writing.exchange

I published a $2 tier for poetry on my patreon!

With a poem attached to this post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/25150398

https://www.patreon.com/join/maloki/checkout?rid=3387958

#Poetry #AmWriting #Patreon #TwoDollarPatreon

Published a small blog post about my Creative Writing Project for this spring.

Poetry, about my grandmother

https://blogghoran.se/2019/02/05/farmor-stories-untold/

#AmWriting

Hi writing.exchange! This will be the writing musing account of @maloki

I'll be writing about writing, and musing about poetry, as I'm crash coursing into it.

Most posts will be private! And the account is private.

If you want to follow hit the button and answer this question:

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when you write exhausted
slowly
one letter at the time,
tapping on your keyboard.

when people read it
they wont see it,

unless i add space
e x h a u s t e d

it's not the same.
it does not portray the feeling
of writing

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x
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a
u
s
t
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d

one letter
at the time.

I've not been able to write lately. Unsure why.

I guess I should get back into it. Maybe check out if my laptop works still, and then bring it to my mom's when I go there.

Editing this poetry has me in tears, which is good.

Because I feel like I may've revealed stuff to me that stings and hurts.

"No surprise to the author, no surprise to the reader" ...

I tend to not be able to listen to music with lyrics when studying. but today I'm listening to Hamilton, which I began listening to in the past few days.

As it's not the first time I listen to it, I'm just using the pace to get me going, which is interesting.

The lyrics aren't distracting for once. Yey!

Learning about syllabic weight, rather than stressed unstressed, is incredibly helpful to me.

It will be so much easier to read for rhythm now!!

Now I'm asking myself, was this part of the poetry studies I've done in the past, did I just not pay attention?

I know we talked about the meter, but never in these words before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable_weight#Classical_poetry

I'm looking at utilizing some of the Kalevala rhyme scheme, as it is the Epic poem of the Finns, which will fit well with this story of my grandmother.

Going to have a lot of fun.

Serious writing question.

If you publish a paper, and later change your name, can you like get that shit changed? :D

I published a $2 tier for poetry on my patreon!

With a poem attached to this post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/25150398

https://www.patreon.com/join/maloki/checkout?rid=3387958

#Poetry #AmWriting #Patreon #TwoDollarPatreon

So, what I was saying was this:

I'm trying to take a lot more time by sitting down and drafting, with some free-writing, and then moving in and out of forms to find the right words.

Maybe not doing exactly this for every poem, but I really want to submit a lot better poems this submission (due Sunday).

Me "Why am I not on the local timeline" ...

Oh yeah, default posting is private :D

Just say no
it's so easy,
no peer pressure
involved at all.

You always have
a choice to make
a wrong one,
is a big mistake.

It's not even drugs,
but friendly hanging outs
I have to say no,
to them I care about.

Learning to say
I can't do it this way,
maybe we can meet halfway?

It is not a no,
and no one has to know
that saying those words
is important to you
and them saying yes,
makes it better yet.

#Poetry

A poem about self-care, written by me as a response to Agnes Török on their patreon:

Taking care of you,
Lets you take care of them.

I feel your pain,
been there
was there, still there.

Taking care of you,
Lets you fly.

Please remember,
“Secure your own
Oxygen mask first”

Taking care of you,
Lets you soar.

#poetry #smallPoems