Sometimes inspiration is a subtle little creature that wanders through your subconscious. This was the lesson I learned after completing a Wreck This Journal page that instructed me glue down a page from a magazine and circle the words I like. I dutifully finished this page a long time ago, but the significance of what I had done didn’t hit me until this week.
I literally followed instructions and circled words I liked without really thinking that they could or might fit together. And there they sat for months until I read through them the other day. To my complete surprise, the words I circled actually fit together to create two interesting little poems.
experience antique country
passion beauties
character past
roamed feisty skies
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symmetry beautiful
flowing array
authentic faux
enable discerning
create luminaries
learning
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Granted, these aren’t perfect lines, (my inner editor wants to revise so badly), but they still have something interesting to say. My voice is there and speaking very loudly! To me this little exercise really showcases the power of random association and free-writing! If I’ve learned anything, its the importance of shutting off my filter every now and again in order to explore new possibilities.
Stay inspired!
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c.b. 2012
I like it. I’m going to try!
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Yay! 🙂 Have fun!
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I am wondering what photographs of yours go with these “found” poems……..
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For once, no pictures served as inspiration! Its been a long time since anything poetic came out of nothing . . . I guess my subconscious really is at work and I don’t even know it!
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Very nice. I LOVE doing this. I get old books at the thrift store just so I can cut out pages and do the same thing. It opens the mind in a new way and could even be used as a warm-up to each day’s writing session. Your layout is very nice, as always.
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I remember we did something very similar in WIG a couple weeks ago, but I got caught up in needing to find words that go together instead just a random selection. I think this only worked because I had no inclination to take it any further until much later. Hopefully, one day I will learn to let go more often! 🙂
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I love this! Free-writing is one of my favorite things ever. That’s where my poetry comes from. It’s amazing what our minds will tell us when we let them express themselves without hindrance.
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Free-writing is fun, but I do struggle with it. Poetry is something that usually strikes in the middle of the night or is triggered by an image. I was quite surprised at how these two stanzas turned out. It makes me wonder what else my muse has hiding up her sleeve! 🙂
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That is way cool. The poem sounds like you spent three days working on them. I’m going to try it!
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They took about two seconds to write. All I did was transfer each word off the page and add divisions. It’s making me question my entire approach to writing poetry – LOL! 😉
Have fun! I hope you post your lines!!
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I may do that! Glad you mentioned it.
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This is great! I love doing thrift store book ‘black outs’ and making cool poems – usually dirty ones 😉 haha.
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The magnetic poetry on my fridge has a similar fate. 😉
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Whimsey with whamsey.
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😀
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Pretty neat! This reminds me of Wordle. Have you used that app (wordle.net)? You paste in a bunch of text and it creates a graphic of the words, omitting the common words (the, it, and). I used it tonight to create my writing quote for Sunday (Ray Bradbury).
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I’ve dabbled on Wordle a bit. It really is a fun little gadget! 🙂
Can’t wait to read your Bradbury post!
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ah, letting go………….letting your heart create without filtering through the mind. Beautiful, isn’t it?
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Incredibly beautiful! 🙂
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What an interesting concept to inspire free-writing! 🙂
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Its so much fun when one realm of creativity leads to another! 🙂
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