Writing
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Performance Artist
This is one of the poems from my recent NaPoWriMo experiment. I hope you enjoy it. Performance Artist I’m shy I don’t want to talk to people they seem so much more legitimate than me I’m uncomfortable my legs don’t sit nicely when I cross them because of my massive thighs I ate luke-warm,…
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NaPoWrimo – Winning
This is a short post to say I finished NaPoWriMo with thirty new poems. Congratulations to me and anyone else who decided to do the challenge. Some are pretty good, others are a bit wobbly. I only had to catch up one. I went through the poems I had handwritten to put them onto the…
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Over half way to May!
This is just a brief update post on what’s happening in April. Things have been progressing well in my world. So far I have completed my poem each day (not today but shhh) as part of NaPoWriMo and making good progress on the show for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Firstly, the poetry. I’ve been writing…
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NaPoWriMo 2018
I did NaPoWriMo two years ago. In the last few months I’ve had loads of compliments for my poetry chapbook, My Body. No Apology, so I’d like to produce some more poems and make a follow up chapbook. Much of the raw material from NaPoWriMo last time was not so great. I guess it’s all…
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Metamorphosis
When I was fifteen I built a website a fan page to a band I filled it with my poems I used words over and over blood death bones hate Repetition with no subtlety stuff to make a Gothic novelist cringe obsessed with bodily functions and decay with the cold and the dark the website…
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Too busy? Me?
I read an interesting article on the saying no to the Cult of Busyness yesterday. It advocates doing only one thing at a time, and I can’t say I’m completely on board with that, but I do think that our society undervalues down-time. I’m particularly bad at this, juggling a few competing priorities; social contact, work,…
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Baby Steps vs. Leaps of Faith
I’m not going to talk about the fact that today is Valetine’s Day and I am not seeing anyone. I’ve recently started attending a Meet-Up group called Abundant Artists. The purpose is to get together with other local artists, predominantly working in visual art, but there are some performers too, and discuss what you’re struggling…
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Not Enough
I’ve been having a somewhat difficult week. Nothing has happened to make it tough specifically, more a lingering, nagging feeling that something’s not right. I was thinking about this riding my bike home from work last night. The feeling I’ve been having this week is most easily summed up by the phrase “Not Enough”. Not…
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Hello 2018!
What are my goals for 2018?
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Reflections on 2017
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’ve done over the year
Fleur Blüm 