What is a Weird Thing About You?

A Few Peonies

Photo by Amy LV

(I will post a recording when the recoder is not giving me difficulty!)

Students - The other day as I walked by the peonies on the table, I looked at the petals falling from my peony bouquet and again I heard/imagined hearing the sound of piano notes. This made me wonder if everyone hears piano notes when they see many flower petals fall at once. Perhaps this is something I heard in a cartoon once, or perhaps my brain just thought of it, but either way, my brain hears it now.

Yesterday my friend Karen shared this Albert Einstein quote with me, "Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought." So this week let me recommend that you fall in love with paying attention to the very special and individual way that you see the world. What is something weirdly wonderful about the way you see things? Watch for it. Then, express this wonderfulness in some way. Spending time on human thought and human art makes us more thoughtful, and it makes us more artful. 

Today's poem is short, but I spent a lot of time playing with the words to find just-the-right-ones and also to arrange them just so. Originally, the lines were longer and the poem looked like this:

Then, after playing with the words for a long time, I decided that the poem should have more of a falling feeling, so by adding more line breaks, I created more falling from line to line. Do remember that when you write a poem, the line breaks (where you choose to go from line to line) and white space (space where there is no text) play an active part in the life of the poem. So feel free to play with them! Move the lines one way. Then another. 

Thank you to my friend Mary Lee for reminding me this week of the importance of making every day.

Tanita is hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup over at {fiction, instead of lies}, sharing some different poetic forms and new poems too . Each Friday, all are invited to share poems, poem books, poetry ideas, and friendship in this open and welcoming poetry community.

I wish you glorious and wonderful weird moments inside and outside of your own head!

xo,

Amy

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