Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Crowdfunding Creative Jam is open on Dreamwidth and LiveJournal.  The July theme is "women in sensible armor." Please drop by and leave prompts, or claim prompts for your inspiration.  I've got plenty of poetic series that fit this, if you want to use those.

Ars poetica: "A Confession" (twofer)

[primeideal]

Another poem coming by way of someone I don't think of, foremost, as a poet. As well as writing the Narnia novels and various apologetics, C.S. Lewis also wrote science fiction and poetry. "A Confession" features an allusion to one of the poems I struggled with in the high school classes I've discussed before, which made me very glad to run into it.

My version follows below. Although the structure of stanzas (and line count) has changed, it's a letter-by-letter anagram of Lewis' original. Working with this constraint means I started at the beginning but also worked backwards from the end to make sure I had a strong finish before running out of letters. Then I stitched them together in the middle. Maybe you can spot the point where I was like "ffff, I have too many ffffs to get rid offff." ;)

( A Confession )