Repeat.
Tag: poetry
While I
sit here.
Be present, be more than present. Be insistent of yourself and your day, what you want from your day, what you’ll make transpire and occur in YOUR day.
Bag
A discussion shouldn’t have an destination, shouldn’t have some immovable aim. And if it does, it should be open to the unexpected landings, docks that weren’t forecasted or estimated. We need to not just be be “open” to other directions in conversation and exploration of ideas, but everything, all possibilities and steps, sounds, rooms, and…
Open mic.
Have an open mic with yourself before the day ignites, before it’s off the ground. And yes, write. And yes yes yes…. RECITE to yourself. Collect character and conviction, assembly for the day, see what will happen, decide what’ll happen before it lands.. Thoughts fall and envelop you if you allow. So, allow them. Morning…
Books, Notebooks
Be in both everyday as much as you’re able. Study and grow and be YOU. Your story, your pages… you decide all directions and things.
People that want you to
be miserable with them and like them don’t speak the same language as you. Empathize to a point, but past that point you need to re-direct and focus on your story and visions. There are no chances, only singular opportunities.
Keep writing.
Think and live and love through verse.
Find yourself and
answer your own questions in writing freely.
thought
Follow up on your observations. Note them, study them, study the notes and what you’ve studied, and how, in the notes themselves.
is
Needs and wants are differentiated by language and materiality.
In your work, give everything
to yourself before the work itself. Then, you can create, you can propel yourself to whatever your canvas is. This semester, I’m one vowing to try everything in writing, in reacting to what I observe and experience. And who knows what experiences wait for us. We don’t know. Therein, lies beauty, gems innumerable. Work, what…
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