Sub Rosa

Only a synopsis, but retold as a fairy tale :-)

I am deeply frustrated at the moment, because I am meant to be doing Swift/Blake - but I have to compile some of my poems on the forum.  Now, I have done enough to get by - but one of the ones I did had a bit of a crap review from the prominent poet expert on the course.  That's fine, but since this is portfolio work, I really needed to get a couple more online to cover all bases.  I so want to share my stuff on here - I can't, because when my stuff is shoved through a scanner, it will be linked to my LJ and I don't want the awkwardness of having to cite myself every time I share something.  Or have it nicked.

So far I have compiled the following: Bitter Salt; Jackdaws; Milky Quartz (not so good review); Penwith Storm and one that I have just written called Blood Orange (carnelian stone). The plus side is that the poet expert wants me to post Jackdaws to the INK magazine competition.  So I have to pay attention to what works and what doesn't. Now, I don't claim to be a poet, but I have fallen in love with my carnelian stone and I hope the poem reflects my feeling about it.  I was playing Massive Attack's Psyche when I wrote it and playing it makes me feel a bit more in contact with my creative side (sadly lacking in recent weeks).

If the rest don't like the quartz one - I'll can reject it and post it on here.

( Undercut One: Massive Attack - Psyche )

( Undercut Two: Psyche Lyrics )

I have to write a poem for the forum by midnight tonight.  The theme seems to be rock, using the following words: *African Amethyst * Biggs Jasper * Bitter Salt * Blue John * Blue Vitriol * Bone Turquoise * Cave Creek Jasper * Cherry Blossom Stone * Dogtooth Spar * Falcon's Eye * Flint * Fool’s Gold * Hydrogen dioxide * Mica * Moor's Head Tourmaline * Native Copper * Needle Tin * Painted Boulder * Picture Jasper * Precious Beryl * Redruthite * Rock Salt * Stalactite * Thunder Egg * Tin Stone * Wood Tin *

Blue Vitriol is an interesting one.



I think the likes of Thunder Egg and Falcon's Eye will be used by the fantasy fiction writers of the class and there seems to be an interest in the Cherry Blosson Stone below.



I would like to know who this Beryl is and if she is indeed a bit 'precious.'  I have chosen 'Bitter Salt,' because I think there are more images I can play with.