In His Name, I am None

[thewilderhen]

Ty for your kind words, Evan, but I rather think busker is right, and as a consequence I have abandoned this poem. I cannot get it to work, and my source material (medieval mystical texts) is full of imagery and ideas that have become cliche, so either I ignore my own source material or my poem will be full of cliches, too. Marguerite Porete deserves a better poem than anything I could write!

Oh but don’t give up on the source materials for inspiration! Mystic xtian writers are full of such richness. Could you write a poem as if you are (for example) Marguerite Porete? Not Marguerite Porete as she wrote, but how she lived? Maybe freewrite and then see if any lines give you that “aha!” feeling. Think of this as part of a “research and development” phase for the poem you’ll eventually write. Don’t force it, but don’t give up on the idea. Maybe it will revisit you in a different way.