Rethinking

[mdlbear]

Took the five-mile loop by Los Gatos Creek today. No blisters to show for it either. So Yay! I think I used the time pretty well.

See, I've had this melody stuck in my head for a couple of years now. Probably cobbled together from stolen bits, they all are, but I've made it mine by now. It's basically a march, and has (to my mind at least) a sort of noble, high-fantasy feel to it. It attached itself to Quiet Victories.

Never mind that it blows my original 3/4 scansion to smithereens. That's where it seems to want to be.

Forget heroic fantasy
Those aren't the tales I need to hear
Tell me the tale you never told
Of quiet victory over fear

Still very fragmentary; that's all I have that's reasonably solid at the moment.

Comments

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

mmm... I like it.

I'm assuming it's pronounced "vict'ry" in the last line, at least at this stage of creative coalescence? (it seems to be the only way I can make it scan to a 2/4 march beat.)

What are the tales that you want to tell?

[bookwyrm172006.livejournal.com]

Pretty. I like it. Can't wait to hear.