Transformative Honeymoons

So it's like a woman's perrogative, right.

Anyways - I'm going to keep the blog going,
but I am going to change the site, significantly.

I suppose the most obvious change will be the

captions, I  do want to keep doing something

"caption-like" but I want to move away from
"Rachels' Haven" style captions - I've joined
that site a couple times and quit a couple times now.
If people don't trade back it's not very much fun.

But let's be honest, it's a fantasy site which would
be a lot of fun if I was accepted there, but I am a very
strange person, and that puts a lot of people off.

So where do I want to go with the captions? I want to
combine poetry and abstract art into "art-posters"
Now before you all go running for the hills screaming
"could anything be worse than some sissy faggot
poetry corner" hear me out.

This is an example of the type of "Art Poster" I'm talking about - it is not
going to be that shit they taught in English class (personally I absolutely love
Robert Lax's "Circus Days and Nights" - I am in awe of Shakespeare -
I've set several of the Psalms to music - The Song of Solomon is so amazing that
I can't begin to describe how good it really is - I could go on but the point is I love
Poetry and you don't and I don't want to bore you -  I want to make works that are
accesible and enjoyable to you  - about some guy who thinks inside he's at least as
much a woman as he is a man - and this fictional character (unlike anyone I
personally know, and certainly not autobiographical) will be speaking about what it
feels like to be a human being from this particular and peculiar first person
perspective.

here's another example of the type of work I want to do:

only more poetic - but poetic is a very loose term in today's world - basically
poetry is whatever I say it is, if I am a legitimate poet.  Of course if I'm just
some asshole with a word processor, who knows - it might be poetry, it might not be.
So how do you know you're getting genuine poetry, and not a cheap imitation?

Well I've been writing poetry for many years, and over time that evolved to song lyrics-
I've written hundreds of songs, and also a couple musicals with my songs in them.
Here is a link to one of my plays if you want to hear what my songs sound like:
http://catfishbones.blogspot.com/
the other play I received an Illionois Arts Council Fellowship and $7,000 for.
I have also performed music professionally, and have been doing  all the captions
at "Transformative Honeymoons" since I started this blog back in November.
So, yeh, I think I have at least some qualifications to write a poetry blog that
doesn't suck any more than the blog did before - here's another example of
an art poster that's fairly poetic:

so I've been going in this direction for some time anyways, but I've also been doing
the "funny captions" which I guess just aren't funny - I still want to do some funny
captions, because poetry that is always serious isn't good art - it's torture - I won't do
that to you - but I want to start talking about how I (oops - how this fictional person
who is not anyone I know) feels inside in a way that I feel is poetic (no it won't usually
rhyme or use meter) and is visually artistic, some of it will be over the top-like this
self pitying drivel:

but hopefully not too much - I mean visually I'd like to aim more for things like this:

so anyways, bear with my while I revamp this site -it's going to be a little slow at first,

but hopefully it will be better

it will certainly be different.....