A creative journey in poetry and other writings
What follows is a brief chronicle of Gerrit Verstraete's poetry to date ( last updated November 12, 2008 ). Selections are not marked as to whether they were published or not, This website is about sharing the journey of creative writing, especially the art form of poetry, not bragging about it.
1964 - 1990 98 poems - The Early Poetry
1998 - 2004 75 poems - In Search of a City
2003 - 2004 64 poems - The Concetto Prophecies
2004 - 2005 85 poems - New Works
2004 - 2005 200 tableaux - the epic: Cerulean Odyssey, the first journey, "Cerulean's Odyssey, the long distance voyager"
2005 - 2006 100 tableaux - the epic: Cerulean Odyssey, the second journey, "a journey through the wilderness"
2006 - 2007 110 tableaux - the epic: Cerulean Odyssey, the third journey, "fellow travelers along the way"
2007 - 2008 80 tableaux - the epic: Cerulean Odyssey, the fourth journey ( to be completed ), "visual streams of consciousness"
2008 - 2009 - 100 tableaux - the epic: Cerulean Odyssey, the fifth journey , "the valley of death"
2009 - 2010 - 100 tableaux - "Cerulean's Red Moon Diaries."
2010 - 2011 - the epic ( con't ): Cerulean Odyssey, the sixth journey , "confessions of a stranger"
2006 - Levare Films ( Work in Progress ) Experiments in visual poetry ( "camera poetica" )