For today’s images I’m trying to capture the inevitability in ambiguity and the ambiguity in inevitability. To me inevitability is a straight line to a conclusion. It can not be altered nor avoided. Ambiguity is blurry, unclear, indefinite. So for today’s images, I put a straight line on a clear filter and took some pictures of my Halloween lights before dawn. I played with getting different blurs of my straight line.
I really enjoyed this photoshoot. It’s fun to jump out of bed and get bundled up, wander out into the dark morning and turn on my Halloween light display to explore the different combinations of lights up and down the driveway. During today’s shoot I found that the ambiguity in inevitability arises when trying to decide which line is the line of the inevitable, or if they all are.
2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1
Today’s prompt is to write a declaration poem. What do I have to declare about inevitability and ambiguity? For today’s poem I played with the Mirrored Refrain form constructed by Stephanie Repnyek.
This is a declaration
of utmost certainty
The lake blends with the sky’s inevitability
while I splash in the ambiguity
And I declare the borders blurred
making me question its credibility
While I splash in the ambiguity
the lake blends with the sky’s inevitability
This declaration may be absurd
when facing its incongruities
The lake blends with the sky’s inevitability
while I splash in the ambiguity
But I declare the line meets conclusion
without any flexibility
while I splash in the ambiguity
The lake blends with the sky’s inevitability
These statements so declared
superfluity in perpetuity
The lake blends with the sky’s inevitability
while I splash in the ambiguity
Today there are a series of Youtube write-ins. I caught the first one at nine am and already have over six hundred words on the day. It always surprises me how write-ins get me to write my novel, but they work. So I’ll be enjoying each of the write-ins today as I explore my opening scenes.
Experience Writing 