by Orna Ross | Jun 22, 2018 | Poetry |
Reading and writing haiku is a practice, it brings us into creative presence. And that's the intention of this guide about how to write haiku. “Haiku happen all the time,” says Bill Higginson, who wrote The Haiku Handbook, another book about how to write haiku, these...
by Orna Ross | May 15, 2018 | Poetry |
People power is rocking poetry, taking it out into the streets and pubs and festivals and providing a new kind of patronage for poets. In the past, only wealthy benefactors could afford to support poets and under that system, the poet had to commemorate the patron's...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2018 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Queen of Queens. My mother's name is Brigid, named as almost every Irish person used to be, after a saint. And today is Brigid's day, one of the most important days of the year. Imbolc in Gaelic, after the Celtic tradition: the first...
by Orna Ross | Jan 9, 2018 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Home, a poem inspired by the recent storms. I'm inspired by creativity in all corners of the world but especially in nature, most especially London parks, the woods and beaches of East Sussex and, of course, Ireland. You'll find lots...
by Orna Ross | Oct 12, 2017 | Poetry |
One of the things I've been noticing about Insight Timer App is the popularity of its meditations for sleep. And there is a raft of research showing how important good sleep is for creative performance. (More on this soon). So yes, we aim to go to bed when we feel...
by Orna Ross | Sep 14, 2017 | Poetry |
Longer than forever ago lived a people whom we, squinting back through thickets of time, like to call The Celts. It's said they worshipped trees, as ancient people widely did, as any soulful person always must, and where I come from, (an island off an island off the...