I'd like to try something new.
One word prompts.
For you to interpret as you'd like.
What comes to mind when you think of poetry? What do you feel inspired to express?
My first artistic attempt was poetry. The poems tended to be dark and angst-y...but then I was 14 and in the middle of a Dean Koontz phase.
For many years, poetry was the medium I used to give life to the images in my head.
I still love words. The look of words. Images of words. The way a photo can inspire so many words and one word can inspire so many images to come to mind.
I would love for you to share your inspirations...either on your blogs or in the mission monday flickr group. If you decide to play along, please let me know so I can see what you create!
Happy missioning joy rebels...
4 comments:
~laughing~
poetry is everything
from the bird song
to those big brown eyes on your puppies..
it is the essence of all, held ..
Awesome! I just wrote a post about how poetry or special words come into our life at just the right time or a poem can remind us or lift us up or give us insight. That's what it is: insight. We feel stronger because we have insight and it helps us to act on our intent and embody our intention. This one did it for me yesterday:
I need to recover
a rhythm in my heart that
moves my body first and my mind second;
that allows my soul to catch up with me.
I need to take a sacred pause,
as if I were a sun-warmed rock
in the centre of a rushing river.
Dawna Markova
Joy!
Poetry ~ living, breathing, all the words we say, and particularly, those left unsaid.
Wonderful Mission Monday Brandi! I posted an image on Flickr but the quote that I did not use (but kinda wish I had now) is:
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" - T.S. Eliot
I like many poems that I could never explain what they "mean" but know that I like the mood or sensation the words evoke in me.
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