Stranger Than Fiction

• Artist: Ammiel Azarel
• Description: It's about the life of a writer. Her work clearly draining her of life. Her work in turn being full of life.
• Date: 02/08/2010
• Tags: stranger than fiction

Stranger than fiction is the person committed to writing
In a cubicle pondering and typing
Words flowing and pressed onto pages
Submitting her work for meager wages

Her writing like a tapestry tells a fabricated story
Woven from myths fully enveloped in tales of glory
Beautiful calligraphy scripted onto paper
All done under a candle light that flickers and tapers

Lonesome are the nights that beckon solidarity
Checking spelling and grammar done for clarity
Work piles up and quickly mounts
The cycle repeats she recounts

Stranger than fiction is the person committed to writing
Chained to a labor thats tiresome and taxing
Her work and deadlines all carefully outlined
Her life enclosed in a book well defined

The writer herself is a fictional character
Caught between the pages of a late night turner
The work she's rendered so full of texture
She explores and wanders into a venture

She delves into the world she's created
Avidly reading with joy clearly elated
What's confined in her mind is so easily released
A manic writer that can't be ceased

Stranger than fiction is the person committed to writing
Defying reality and to her work clinging
Never aware of the world outside her corridors
Always inside, Always indoors

Comments

[Sunafire]

You have really strong rhyming within this poem. You give this whole poem a beat and maybe that represents the life of a writer, but in a way not written within the poem itself?
And it's because of that, I like it smile