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Wow. I really have no clue what category to put this into.Anyways, this was a project I completed for my Creative Writing class as we had to create a poetry broadside. While I'm now googleing that for a good explanation of what a broadside is, I'm finding my teacher described it to us very differently, which I'm actually happy about because all of the ones that different people made were just so dang amazing. So what she told us is that a broadside is where you turn your poem into something tangible, which really represents the poem as a whole, and you usually write your poem on that.
So since my poem that I did for this is about flying I created two giant wings for it and wrote the poem on the outer feathers, one line on each feather. Yes, this poem is to tell a story about Uplift. I didn't know what to write and thought I'd give it a shot, which came out to be pretty fun and I like it.
Here's the poem since it's hard to read in the picture:
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The rushed fall of feathers
Desperately shaping the gales and gusts,
Marked the passage of a creature
Her coal covered fur and wings
Adorned in markings of gold and silver.
Her sensitive ears overflowed
With the rumbles and crackles
She glanced back behind her
And onto a grayscale world.
A streak of white tore through the sky
Lighting the land for only a second,
And making the darkness that followed absolute.
Energy renewed by the sight,
She accelerated to greater speeds,
Heavy panting mocking a huge smile across her face
As she raced the giant storm above her,
Daring it to go faster.
Falling behind
Her colors began to fade,
When the sky exploded around her
A bright white claw of electricity slamming to the ground.
Folding her body in,
She veered and spun mid-air
Descending at impossible speeds,
Eyes shining wildly in the darkness.
Snapping open her wings,
She stops the descent,
Touching down on the tip of a tree
Only to push off in no time at all.
The creature continued on with this strange dance,
Winding around through the lightning,
The whistling wind ruffling her fur
And whipping her tail back and forth.
Taking a break from the rigorous exercise,
She turned her head upwards,
Gazing at the grand cloud creating this storm.
Her mind instantly exploded with possibilities,
And throwing caution to the wind,
She charged toward the electricity-filled giant.
Passing through the cloud
The creature’s fur was soaked
Causing her to pause as the mist twisted and swirled,
Creating a canvas of infinite beauty.
Releasing a powerful down stroke,
She pushed herself into a space between the layers,
Overwhelming her eyes with the sudden amount of color.
The sun rising over the horizon of the first layer,
Made the once black and white cloud
Fill with bright yellows, oranges, and a resonant purple.
As she brought her wings up,
A long tendril of lightning sliced into the space,
Its tinge of bright blue finishing off the color spectrum.
Even when the lightning vanished,
The image it created was forever burned into her mind,
As she had found the inner beauty of a raging storm,
And one does not forget a such sight so easily,
Not even a wolf.
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I completely made both of the wings out of scratch, staring out by drawing a pattern on a long roll of packing paper(the brown paper that's used in boxes when shipping), then cut that out and traced over the different pieces on poster paper, using 7 different posters worth of paper. I glued all of those pieces together after cutting them out(64 pieces total.) then put some more paper on the back edges to reinforce where I needed the parts to stick together, and finally added a strip of cardboard to the backing so that they would be able to stand up.
Overall, this whole thing took me about... 12 hours, give or take.
They both stand up at approximately 5' 9" tall.
And I freaking adore them because they came out so well and just yesssss.
