Assembling the pieces, by Lucy Mills

In previous More than Writers posts, I've talked about taming the tentacles and using up leftovers.

Today I'm talking about assembling the pieces.

A caveat, first of all - as I'm so intensely working on my book my writing energies are so diminished for 'other stuff' that this blog post may make no sense at all.

You have been warned.

I feel the need to be lyrical about this, so why not write an off-the-cuff sort-of-poem for you?

I hold it in my hand

consider its shape, its colour, its form.

Where does it belong?

I ponder its texture, see where the lines fall -

how big is it? And where does it belong?

There are others like it, still mismatched

I cannot force them in, they still wait for me

to understand them, resolve them, place them

where they belong...

Assembling the pieces

the jigsaw initially

seeming impossible

especially when the picture on the box

has the audacity to keep changing.

Where do they belong?

A moment of satisfaction - a sigh of delight -

as one suddenly clips onto another,

happily joined, making sense

and then another, another

landing where it belongs.

I'm not there yet, there are some pieces

that need reshaping still -

I'm doing the jigsaw but the pieces 

are still rough, as I try to put them together...

to find where they belong.

But when they do - when it finally falls together

the picture now clear to me where it once was blurred

and what I have is not pieces

but a whole -

a work of art -

a completed puzzle -

a book -

I know that, as a writer, I belong.

I hope you enjoyed my unedited poem, written on the spot as I have no time for honing anything else right now!

What metaphors do you use for writing and book creating?

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Lucy Mills

Lucy's first book, Forgetful Heart: remembering God in a distracted world, was published in 2014 (DLT). Undivided Heart: finding meaning and motivation in Christ will be coming in October 2017. Lucy writes articles, poetry and prayers for various publications and is Editorial Co-ordinator at magnet magazine. www.lucy-mills.com

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More than Writer posts in 2017:

• Ode from a writer (January 2017)