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creatediana · 10 hours

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My first post ever on this blog, published 4/27/2014

Happy 10 years!

2/16/2014

#we did it joe #i. ahem. i'd like to think i've improved somewhat #no comment on the original poem itself #we all know occasionally i like to go back and share one of my struggle teenage ramblings #we all have to start from somewhere. i am no exception #especially with what a baby i was when i first started writing poetry i mean jesus #i'm not a baby anymore i'm just a big loser

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"Self-Portrait at 25 in My Bathrobe" - a sketch drawn 4/25/2024 in willow charcoal on 9x12" paper

#this was about an hour's work. would've taken a better artist half that but i am not a better artist #i am happy w it though #2024 #my drawing #charcoal #sketch #self portrait #my hand is smiling because i couldn't be assed #i liked the idea of doing a self-portrait on my birthday i think it's a fun idea #not like a highly effortful one that i stress about but like a low key 'here's what i look like currently & in my current drawing style'#i need to cut my hair again really badly. im gonna donate it again #i am in my bathrobe because it is ridiculously cold in my house. i thought it was supposed to be april

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"My Dog Doesn't Know It's My Birthday (You're the Cream in My Coffee)" - a Shakespearean sonnet written 4/25/2024

#2024 #it is my birthday #i'm 25 #i know! who could figure out that subtext?#poetry #poem #sonnet #iambic pentameter #iambic meter #shakespearean sonnet #english sonnet #form poetry #birthdays #animals #pets #cole porter #you're the cream in my coffee isn't a cole porter song but i do ALWAYS sing it to dickens #i used to sing it to my old dogs sandy and raider when they were alive too #the habit of singing jazz standards to my dogs is one that has outlived my dogs

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"Whimsy's Muse" - a poem written 4/10/2024

#poetry #poem #anapestic meter #anapestic tetrameter #rhyme scheme #2024 #sestet

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creatediana · 4 days

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"Benzo" - a charcoal drawing of a friend's dog done 4/22/2024

#my drawing #2024 #charcoal #dogs #animal portrait #animals #art #i would've posted this yesterday but i gave it to them today and they're mutuals w me on here #so i didnt want them to see it. i wanted it to be like. a lil bit of a surprise.#they knew i wanted to draw their dogs i had asked them for reference pics lol #hes a cute boy. i like him

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creatediana · 5 days

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"Junho" - an exercise in willow charcoal done 4/22/2024 in about 20 minutes of Lee Junho from 2PM

#this month it will be a FULL decade since i started this blog. but we were just a few short days #of making it 10 years without my kpop obsession leaking onto this sideblog. i thought we'd make it #i thought we'd make it but we didn't #my drawing #junho #2024 #2pm #lee junho #charcoal #willow charcoal #drawing exercise #i drew something else today but i'm saving it to post later #and i only wrote one poem today and it was crap. so here's an exercise #i like how most of the drawings i post to this blog are just beautiful men #it's overrepresented in my portfolio admittedly #im not exactly 'proud' of this but i do like posting my exercises now and then bc they are fun to look at #i find examining my rushed/practiced drawings to be a lot more helpful in spotting my own strengths and weaknesses #than finished drawings i put a lot of dedication in #with this one i can say that the nose is off-center and the skull doesn't go all the way around on the left #as much as it should. but since it's clearly not meant to be a fully 'good' drawing it's more forgivable #if i had slaved at this for four hours it would kill me to stare at that inaccuracy #also: this is yet another example of the 'diana likes to draw faces far more than clothes' style of portrait #it's not that i dislike drawing clothes but they are so much less fascinating to me #i could stare at faces forever. whereas fabric doesn't inspire me to craft every detail just so.#and it shouldn't. because fabric is far more forgiving than human anatomy anyway

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creatediana · 10 days

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"Untrusting Free Verse" - a poem written 4/16/2024

I'm suspicious but ignorant. I'm astrology itself. I'm the naked eye on Saturn assuming it's a star because I belong to a child, or am one. I'm the infomercial for Zoobooks. And I'm a ten-dollar art set with markers that come dried out. And the good markers I crushed to make puddles of color—I'm those as well. I'm Lizzie McGuire on a 12-inch TV. No, I'm Kate. I'm an outfit rememberer. I'm a compliment collector. I'm a purveyor of vanity and a paper doll-making prodigy and I'm the dolls. I am paper. I'm still blank on the back. Reuse me. Remember me. Cut me out. And some slack. I am far too suspicious. I am going to shreds.

#handwriting #poetry #free verse #i feel like all of my free verses sound the same. oh well #2024 #ignore any of my spelling errors that i either didn't realize i made or crossed out. all of my papers look like this #this was a #stream of consciousness #piece in a marker pen so of course it's gonna be. a mess. lol

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creatediana · 12 days

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"Sonnet for the Little Black Dog" - written 11/06/2018

#2018 #college years #the background is a public domain stock photo but this was very much about my real actual factual dog #i love and miss you raider so much it's crazy. my life is so different wo you.#animal poetry #animals #poem #animal poem #poetry #sonnet #shakespearean sonnet #english sonnet #iambic meter #iambic pentameter #dogs #dog poetry #pets #rhyme scheme #form poetry

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creatediana · 19 days

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"Myrrha's Son" - a poem written 4/08/2024

Inspired by the passage in The Wild Irish Girl (1806) by Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan:

In short, there are a thousand little fugitive graces playing around her, which are not beauty, but the cause of it; and were I to personify the word spell, she should sit for the picture.

#venus and adonis stanzas #that's why the adonis-allusion of a title #i took a passage about a lady but i thought it'd be hotter if it were about a man #poetry #poem #2024 #iambic meter #iambic pentameter #sestets #form poetry #poets on tumblr #classical poetry #irish poetry #the wild irish girl #sydney owenson #venus #adonis #that rhyme scheme really does make me wanna write love poetry on my lunch break

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creatediana · 22 days

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"Leaps of Good Literature" - an octave written 8/26/2023

#i took the form of this stanza from the york mystery plays cycle #the barkers play the fall of the angels specifically #we love medieval poetry and verse plays on this blog #2023 #rhyme scheme #poem #poetry #medieval poetry #(for the rhyme scheme)#form poetry #poets on tumblr #feminine rhymes #amphibrachic meter #amphibrachic tetrameter #amphibrachic trimeter #octave

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creatediana · 27 days

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Excerpt of Jane Eyre (1847) by English novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

#quotes #jane eyre #charlotte bronte #bronte sisters #victorian literature #women in literature #women writers #1840s #nineteenth century #literature #english literature #classic literature

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creatediana · 29 days

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"Lines on Pondering the Plural Form of Zeus" - a free verse poem written 3/29/2024

#strangers on this road we are on. we are not two we are one.#2024 #free verse #free meter #septets #poem #poetry #spilled ink #poets on tumblr

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"Bored Watcher" - a poem written 3/28/2024

#2024 #poetry #poem #sestets #trochaic meter #trochaic tetrameter #feminine rhymes #masculine rhymes

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"Lines Written Hastily on Someone Else's Desk" - a poem written 3/27/2024

I have to sneak into your desk— I've calculated every risk— I have to test out all your pens and blot out with them my chagrins. I have an urge for every ink— for every mark I make I rank the color and the thickness.—In my rainbow correspondent brain this is the peak of knowledge—yes, the summit of my study's bliss. I snoop and steal to these fair ends— my paper keeps exotic winds.