Go On
Jun, 19 2015 | circle of loveliness | admin | No comments
Magazine captions, titles etc can be great prompts for writing. At our last class before summer I put out a random bunch of pictures, titles, captions, words from magazines.
These words inspired the writing below: a little messy, expect more, stories, go on, take what you… of poetry, stories scoundrels, trailblazers and conspires to assist you.
Go on. Take what you know of poetry Calm your mind Find new pockets hidden within, tucked deep in fascia, in behind rib cage, past solar plexus Close eyes, see Just SEE from this moment outward Look life in the sea-green eyes Lift the globe, peer under Look beyond your past – the tangled sheets of childhood, the sweaty hair plastered on head, the bad dreams, the broken shattered milk glass on the linoleum kitchen floor The feeling of never enough The father who turned the lights off on you and left you in the dark The mother who just couldn’t Look past all of that, or look deep So deep into it that it shimmers, sparkles like a million suns on the ocean Go on. Turn it upside down, spin in from black widow into story Into trailblazer or scoundrel or goddess or Greek myth Strap on those gold sandals Pack your stories into your golden wings, Let poems blink your eyes open more, more, more Go on. Take what you know of poetry Find the stillness between each line See how you feel after words like ‘zither’ or ‘tremble’ or ‘abandoned’ stop reverberating in your heart Sit, be messy; a little or a lot messy Let life beacon you Listen for that inner directive The words that call and jump off the page, that scream between the stillness of each line Expect more Cast out bold, electric daring words And wait… As the universe conspires to assist you