Interpretations

By G.D. Master

Interpretations is created as an example of an e-chapbook. Its thirty poems are written using observations of images found in various periodicals. No poems in Interpretations are derived from the author’s personal experience. It is a move away from confessional poetry. Interpretations is the result of an exercise influenced by readers and writers of imagistic poetry discussed in academic workshops. It was written in thirty days (Aug. 23, 2014 to Sept. 21, 2014), excluding 3 days of brief editing. This poetry collection explores meter and rhyme using the poetic forms of sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, and pantoums. Mixed with these are the author’s own unorthodox explorations of non-rhyming prose. It is hoped that persons reading this e-chapbook will be inspired to write collections of their own and submit them for publication. Experience is important so write and submit often to as many publishers as possible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G.D. Master
• Release date: May 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311083715

G.D. Master

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Interpretations

By Graphite Drug Master

Copyright 2014 Graphite Drug Master

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Abel

Bennett

Calvin

Dominique

Elise

Felicity

Galina

Harmony

Ike

Jameson

Kiera

Landon

Maddox

Nadia

Owen

Paulina

Quintessa

Rowan

Serenity

Trey

Urbana

Vigo

Willow

Xavier

Yeats

Zane

Anderson

Brennan

Cecilia

Dante

About Author

Introduction

Interpretations is created as an example of an e-chapbook. Its thirty poems are written using observations of images found in various periodicals. No poems in Interpretations are derived from the author’s personal experience. It is a move away from confessional poetry. Interpretations is the result of an exercise influenced by readers and writers of imagistic poetry discussed in academic workshops. It was written in thirty days (Aug. 23, 2014 to Sept. 21, 2014), excluding 3 days of brief editing. This poetry collection explores meter and rhyme using the poetic forms of sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, and pantoums. Mixed with these are the author’s own unorthodox explorations of non-rhyming prose. It is hoped that persons reading this e-chapbook will be inspired to write collections of their own and submit them for publication. Experience is important so write and submit often to as many publishers as possible.

The titles of the poems in Interpretations are human names selected randomly, to a relative extent, from a book of baby names. They reflect no person living or persons found in the images written about. The only reasoning used with the titles is possibly a designation of masculine or feminine attribution relating to each poem's cathartic presence. If it serves the reader and writer to think of poems as children the writer will not discourage such notions, but prefers not to participate in them.

Abel

Mist in the distance, smoke from camp fire, and steam from a coffee cup.

Stocking cap, sweater, long pants, and boots are worn for a crisp evening.

Trees frame a comfortable site: aspens on the shore and pines further up.

Fire illuminates an immediate sphere: trees around it, a canoe, a pack, and a tent.

Sharp details at edge of camp and distant side of lake outline still water.

Across the lake are four lights reminiscent of civilization.

Fallen leaves on ground, needles and leaves on trees, and distant peaks

that form a valley, are an image seen from