City of Legends

In my spare time (ask anyone who knows me, I define "manic") I have been polishing my poetic inventory. Well, actually my overall writing inventory. Just to see what all I have. Hey, it beats the hell out of reruns of "Two and a Half Men".

My current catalog breaks down thus (as of midnight, August 1, 2008. We all know that I have written about 50 new works since then…deal with it).

• 18,642 poems
• 143 essays
• 82 short stories
• 3 novels in various states of completion
• 3 screenplays in various states of completion

This does not account my general discourse on my various blogs, which numbers int he thousands of entries.

The poetry breaks down, as best I can figure, out of the 18,642

• 285 sonnets
• 46 villanelles
• 22 poems greater than 100 lines

Credited inspiration:

• 2,182 to Abstra (the abstraction muse)
• 740 to The Panther
• 488 to Aubergine (I have gone back to using totem on this one)
• 94 to The Leopard
• 82 to The Selke
• 72 to Brigit
• 55 to The Goldenheart

Some of these numbers are a little rough. I tried not to dwell on anything for too long.

So what does it all mean? I don’t know, but it was an interesting exercise that gives me fodder for internal debate for a while. And don’t think that the numbers mean much. In terms of classic, timeless and quality pieces, I would say that Panther is way down on the list, for instance. I will let history decide which muses were really luses and not just channels for a generic creative spirit needing outlet.