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Why Poems Anyway?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some like them, some hate them! I\u2019m neutral on poems before chapters in books. If I\u2019m in the mood for them, I\u2019ll read them; if not, I\u2019ll skip them. One of the books that inspired my trilogy was Watership Down,<\/em> by Richard Adams. I can\u2019t remember whether I saw the illustrated movie or read the book first, but I loved them both. Anyway, I re-read Watership Down<\/em> while editing Antuna\u2019s Story<\/em> and noticed Richard Adams placed a poem before each chapter. I liked some, others I wasn\u2019t sure how they related to the chapter. Yet it inspired me to place poems before each chapter of Antuna\u2019s Story<\/em> and The Rise and Fall of Antocracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike Watership Down<\/em> and most other books where I have seen pre-chapter poems, I decided not to use verses from other authors; but rather write my own. Why? Because I already had the insect and insectoid characters in my books periodically speaking in rhymes. So, I thought it would be more appropriate for my insectoid narrator, the fictitious author of the story, to write poems consistent with the insects\u2019 love of rhyming and poetry. At the time, Antuna\u2019s Story<\/em> made up the first six chapters, and The Rise and Fall of Antocracy<\/em> comprised the latter twelve chapters of a longer book I called Poo-ponic Plague<\/em>. When I wrote the poems, we didn\u2019t waste any time, and Narrant and I wrote the eighteen poems over about a twenty-four-hour period, certainly in less than a hexay. At Narrant\u2019s suggestion, I separated the longer book into two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why discuss the poems here?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know very few people read my blog. How do I know that? Because I can tell from the sales that very few people have discovered my books yet. So, I want to treat those super fans who have found my books and loved them enough to seek my blog. So, if you are reading this, you are among a privileged few\u2013self-selected, since you enjoyed my books enough to want more of my or Narrant\u2019s writing. For that, I want to reward you not only with more writing but also with some insights into how my mind works. What better way to communicate that than to analyze some poems for you? Don\u2019t tell your friends you read it here; then, you can impress them with your grasp of poetic elucidation. If you are writing a book report on my novels, you have my permission to use my annotations to impress your teacher; but be sure to recommend the trilogy to all your classmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s begin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this and my following several blogs, I will free-associate about my (er, Narrant\u2019s) poems to anyone interested enough to read my ramblings. So, as tradition goes, I\u2019ll start with chapter one. First, I\u2019ll present the poem, and then I\u2019ll blabber. Here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A marooning like a bolted hatch can unfasten portholes to a new sphere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what is the island on that frontier? But terrain that engulfs one\u2019s eye<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

as it juts out in the vast sea of its new atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            For this poem, a short phrase repeated two or three times in the book\u2014\u2018an island from home\u2019 inspired me. Antuna first said this phrase as she described how the insects\u2019 environs were uprooted and moved to another planet. Antuna used the word \u2018island\u2019 and realized that places she recognized were now in a completely foreign environment. This notion made me think of how it would feel to be shipwrecked and stranded on a desert island. Free-associating, I used ship-related references like \u2018bolted hatch\u2019 and \u2018portholes\u2019 to twist an old saying, when God closes a door, he opens a window<\/em>. I didn\u2019t remember the saying as a religious reference when I wrote it; I only later realized it was a quote by nuns in The Sound of Music <\/em>(the first movie I ever saw at a theatre). Did I just age myself? But that\u2019s okay; doesn\u2019t all good poetry bring up deities? Oops, am I saying now the poem is good? I\u2019ll let you be the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Free-associating further, I fixated again on the word \u2018island\u2019 to consider why Antuna might have made such an analogy. I threw in the terms frontier, sphere,<\/em> and atmosphere<\/em>, not only for rhyming wordplay but also to highlight the insects\u2019 amazement to find themselves in a new wilderness, on another planet, within a novel stratosphere. And I used the terms terrain, engulfs, vast sea, <\/em>and juts out<\/em> to highlight that although Antuna\u2019s island was not in the ocean, it was still a recognizable area surrounded by the unknown, just as a desert island must seem to those surviving a shipwreck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about another?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            To keep me writing more and more blogs for those who like them, and so that each one is not overly long, I\u2019ll present two to four poems per blog. I hope you are game, or if you like, omit a blog, like skipping the poetry if it\u2019s not one you like. Anyway, for those interested, here\u2019s the poem for chapter two:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colonies, like selves when young, we need to shield and nurture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as they grow and inchmeal strive, unveil their budding nature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>As they stretch and blossom, they\u2019ll see their strength as awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to over-exercise one\u2019s stature may jeopardize all\u2019s future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            <\/strong>The second chapter brought to my mind the age-old debate in psychology known simply as Nature versus Nurture<\/em>. Said otherwise, how vital are inherited tendencies as opposed to environmental conditions to an individual\u2019s development and resultant behavior? Or what motivates one more, inherited traits (for insects, this may be instincts) or learned behaviors? I stretched this debate to consider whether these factors might influence how an entire society develops. Free-associating again, I considered that when circumstances thrust the colony as a whole into a new environment, one could see it as a newborn (or with insects, a new hatchling) navigating its new world. I used terms like young, grow, shield, inchmeal strive<\/em>, and budding<\/em> to convey the development of the fledgling society on Poo-ponic, comparing it to an infant that needs protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            In later lines, I foreshadowed what may happen when individuals within the colony begin to fall back on their old instincts (or nature) and ignore the new lessons they learn (or nurture) about working together. I chose the words unveil<\/em> and blossom<\/em> to contrast the earlier terms shield<\/em> and budding<\/em> and imply development. I used stretch<\/em> to complement the terms strength<\/em> and over-exercise<\/em> to signify a mounting obsession with physical might and power. And these notions reflected a rising concern about stature<\/em> for the insect leaders and its impact on the colony\u2019s future<\/em>. As our favorite insects in this story enjoy verse, Narrant selected the words stature<\/em> and future<\/em> to rhyme with nature<\/em> and nurture<\/em>, and he chose awesome<\/em> to follow blossom<\/em>. Who is the narrator here anyway, Narrant or me?<\/p>\n\n\n

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