“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. “ C. S. Lewis Desire & Disdain Desire is a longing or craving; as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment. Disdain is a feeling of contempt for anythingContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 5: Desire and Disdain”
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Poetry Month Challenges Day 4: Calm and Chaos
Art is the triumph over chaos. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Calm & Chaos Calm is defined as freedom from motion or disturbance; stillness. Chaos is a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order. Calm is found through feeling safe whichContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 4: Calm and Chaos”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 3: Beauty and Barbarism
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death. ELIE WIESEL Beauty & Barbarism It was fun to see that “Beauty” was alsoContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 3: Beauty and Barbarism”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 2: A Surreal B-Movie
Fight or Flight As I mentioned yesterday, one of my ideas for my contradictory abstraction is that they are all part of the fight or flight response. The fight or flight response is an automatic physiological reaction to an event that is perceived as stressful or frightening. The perception of threat activates the sympathetic nervousContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 2: A Surreal B-Movie”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 1: Aggression and Apathy
Welcome to the first day of National Poetry Month! April is a busy month here at Experience Writing. There’s a lot to experience: the cherry plum trees are covered in their happy pink and white blossoms; daffodils bow their frilly heads in the flowerbeds; and I enjoy combining the daily writing challenges of blogging AContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 1: Aggression and Apathy”
The Joy of Play
The Poetics prompt at dVerse today is play. I was inspired to play with motion in the mirror world with my new filters which was fun. And for my poem I played with the answer ball I created over a year ago. The answer ball is a ball of photographs of specific nouns. The ideaContinue reading “The Joy of Play”
On a blanket in the wildflowers counting shooting stars
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem about a kiss or kissing. On a blanket in the wildflowers counting shooting stars It’s a waiting gameonce the thought beginsit grows and becomes all encompassinga wish in the abyssevery look a questionevery sigh a possible signevery motion a suggestioneach inch an invitationContinue reading “On a blanket in the wildflowers counting shooting stars”
Written in the Stars
Today’s prompt for Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub is “star.” I’ve been playing around with creating found poetry from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653), one of the texts suggested for submissions to the next issue of Heron Tree. Culpeper believed that the medicinal properties of herbs were connected to stars and planets,Continue reading “Written in the Stars”
The Review of Resolution
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is about resolutions. Every year about this time is when New Year’s resolutions fizzle and dissolve, then are forgotten. Last year, I was completely determined to change my behaviors: I read everything about habits, goals, and motivation; I attended an online conference on having my best year; IContinue reading “The Review of Resolution”
The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction
How was your week? Did you try reading like a writer? Though I didn’t find a lot to apply to my novel from The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, I did have fun brainstorming unique formats for my novel, and it inspired me to get a copy of S. by J.J. Abrams andContinue reading “The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction”
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