This is the new Bloem, Same as the old Bloem.

A mashup of words

Of Blog

And Poem

Makes a new thing

That has been done before.

Poetry is a dying art.

"They" have been saying this for years.

F*CK THEM!

(No, not literally)

((unless you are INTO that sort of thing))

If poetry was truly dying

We would have no new songs

Poetry is not dying

It is evolving

Poetry in lyrics

Poetry in pictures

Poetry in speeches and in blogs.

Poetry is the innermost whispers of the soul

and the passionate warcry of a Valkyrie fighting to her last breath.

Poetry is describing the immense joys of living

and the soul shaking sorrow of dying.

A Blog is an online journal

A repository of ones thoughts

An expression of the Ego

A desire to be heard.

A Blog is like your little sister's diary taken from under her mattress and put up on the Internet.

A Blog is an individuals political/social/satirical take on the world.

A Blog is a digital commode for one's mind poop.

I have no ending at this time

This Bloem shall finish with a rhyme.

Bloem

So.. apparently a bloem is a dutch word for bloom, as in the bloom of a flower.

Bloem

Okay.. not the worst thing in the world to have associated with what I had hoped was just another made up mash-up of a word combining blog with poem the way vlog combined video with blog.  I mean, a bloom or flower of a flowering plant signifies new life or the re-emergence of life like that which comes along every Spring.  I do hope that this bloem blog can be a re-emergence of my creative life.  A place for me to nurture and grow the seeds of my writing process and branch out my imagination.  I want to push myself to write, even if I am only writing about that WANT to write.  Maybe I'll surprise myself with what I come up with.  Maybe some divine inspiration will emerge and blossom into something bigger.  Or maybe I'll just write my silly poems and the occasional rambling story about my life or ghost gnomes on mars and life will just continue to ramble on. :)  I'm honestly good with it, either way.  I am in a new beginning in my life, a time a renewal and new growth.  Let the bloems commence!


In Bloom - Nirvana

Sell the kids for food
Weather changes moods
Spring is here again
Reproductive glands

He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
when I say
He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
when I say yeeeaaahhh



We can have some more
Nature is a whore
Bruises on the fruit
Tender age in bloom

He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
when I say
He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
when I say yeeeaaahhh

*Guitar solo*

He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
when I say
He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
Knows not what it means and I say yeeeaaahhh
mmmmmmmm
mmmmmmmmm

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Blog re-launch

At first when I had the thought of restarting and trying to breathe new life into this lapsed blog of mine, I briefly toyed with the idea of re-naming it "Thing-a-Day", a blatant rip-off of Jonathan Coulton, a folksy, humorous, singer/song writer of whom I have recently grown quite fond, and who gained notice through his own musical project "Thing-a-week" in which he put out one new or cover song a week for a year.  After a bit of thought, I decided that, as much as I'd LIKE to be able to say that I would write at least one thing a day, I knew/know myself, and my horrible tendency toward procrastination, better than that.  Hence, Bloem a Week was born. :)  Still a tribute to (sounds nicer than ripoff ;) Mr. Coulton as well as to the band he ripped off.. I mean, was inspired by, They Might Be Giants, whose old Dial-A-Song service, back in the days of answering machines, served as the inspiration for Jonathan's musical project.  Lastly, but most certainly not least, I would be remiss if I did not include my friend Patrick Brennan, whose excellent art/writing blog 52 Fridays  not only ALSO follows this tried-and-true self motivator of weekly postings but also showed me what a blog can be and inspired me to someday maintain my own blog.

Now, despite the fact that I settled on "..A Week" as the 'suffix' to my blog's title, I will by no means use that as an excuse to limit myself to merely one post a week.  If I am able to maintain daily blogs for a while, so be it.  Someone said "Less is More" but, honestly, isn't MORE more??  So I will endeavor to write, as often, and whenever the mood strikes me, and, AT LEAST once a week.  I gave myself that self motivator in the title to do just that, motivate my SELF.  I like the me who writes, even if I don't always care for some of the silliness or aborted attempts at deep philosophic meanderings that spill out of his head and onto the keyboard. :)  So I will practice BEING that me.

- Josh