Whispers from the Ridge: Rewriting

5/4/2017

Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks for stopping by this week. After your visit here on the ridge, be sure to make Jama's Alphabet Soup your next stop on the Poetry Friday trail!

It's hard to believe another school year is coming to an end. The month of May has a way of sweeping in unexpectedly. It closes out the school season and opens the door to another.

Soon, I will open the door to a summer season filled with writing and rewriting. I can't help but look forward to the many blissful hours I will spend on the ridge, just listening to the whispers. So many whispers have found their way into my notebook since I began my writing journey in this place I call home. I am so grateful to have this space to write and rewrite these whispers in my writing life.

I remember introducing my writing space here on the ridge during my very first blog post. I am including the poem from that first blog entry below. So much time has passed since it was written. And there is much that is still left unwritten. I am certain that more whispers will find their way into my writing life, but until they do, there are those that magically seek to be rewritten. They whisper to my mind, and I begin to write.

The Ridge-From the Archives
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The Ridge-Rewritten

Invitation to Write:

Rewriting can be a beautiful thing. Just like rereading, we tend to notice things that we didn't pick up on the first time around. Writing about topics we love over and over again is like reading our favorite books over and over again. Our writing becomes well worn and loved, just like our most treasured stories.

9 Comments

jama link

5/5/2017 11:56:39 am

Lovely poems, Kiesha, I especially like your rewritten version, very evocative. :) I wish you a grand summer of writing, listening, looking, and enjoying your time on the ridge!

Linda Baie link

5/5/2017 01:04:26 pm

I like the re-write very much, Kiesha. It must be a beautiful place! Love that "secret-keeper"!

Kay Jernigan McGriff link

5/5/2017 01:24:49 pm

I like both the original and rewritten versions--and the realization that rewriting doesn't always mean getting read of the first version. Sometimes you end up with two poems instead. Enjoy summer on the ridge.

Bre link

5/5/2017 04:21:43 pm

I agree with Kay, I like them both. Great rewrite, great first poem.

Jane @ Raincity Librarian link

5/5/2017 05:07:45 pm

How lovely to take a walk down memory lane and revisit earlier poems - it can be so interesting to see how your writing style has changed, grown, or in some ways stayed the same! :)

Christie Wyman link

5/6/2017 05:17:54 am

Yes! Secret keep 'til the end! :-)

Mary Lee

5/6/2017 05:22:19 am

I, too, am looking forward to turning the page from rush-of-May-in-5th-grade to Ahh-June-slow-readwritebikeswimsleepreadwrite.

Both of your versions have much to love -- the sensory details in the first, the brief beauty of the second.

Linda Mitchell link

5/6/2017 11:46:55 am

Happy Anniversary! I have an anniversary coming up this month. The third week of May, just one year ago I committed to Poetry Friday. I'm pretty sure I've participated each week for a year. I love being a stronger reader and writer of poetry....and the community is phenomenal.
I can't decide which poem I like better. Those Gone With the Wind sun-sets are pretty lush. The second poem is definitely one of someone who is wiser with pacing and the inner stillness it brings.

Heidi Mordhorst link

5/7/2017 05:15:30 pm

Wow--that's quite a rewrite! Perhaps I'm not as flexible as some, but I rarely find a way to revise so extremely and thoroughly. Thanks for showing off your courage as well as your whispers.