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New Addition to My “Poets on Patreon” Page: Poetry Writer Patron
Do you write poetry? Would you like to make a living as a poet or songwriter? Did you know that there is a growing presence of poets on Patreon who are being paid by their fans to write their poems? My Patreon page has been running for a few months now and is beginning to gather poetry readers. It feels like time to add in the writers: the poets. So I’ve just introduced a new Tier on my Patreon page. Poetry Writer Patron. Alongside my own writing, I’m on a personal mission to empower other creatives, through digital publishing and…
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First Day of The Month Is Poetry Day For My Patrons On Patreon. This Month’s Poem: The Next Birth
Like inspirational poetry? On the first day of each month, I release a new inspirational poem exclusively for my patrons on Patreon. This month’s poem is called “The Next Birth”. It’s a love poem that begins with couple-love and moves to universal love. Here a verse: When bodies bare, we two in one combined, and my breath became yours as much as mine, then no day was a day of grift, or thrift then all that came before us came as gift. When I knew you loved me, as I loved you, our whole lives then began again, anew. If you’d like…
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Sunday Inspirations. Poem: Halting Place
Here, evening mist has nothing to hold but the trees. Autumn has not yet plucked the last of the leaves. For me, it’s that time of day, that time of year, when poems come. Oh, that ache to be here, to be heard. Surely, soon. You relieve it with love, always did. My dear, I saw how you picked up his scarf on our way out, the old one you said he won’t wear any more. I see you wearing it now, worn side in. * * * For as little as $2 a month, you can become a poetry…
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Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Truth To Tell
“‘Thou Shalt Not’ soon fades but ‘Once Upon A Time’ goes on forever.” ~ Philip Pullman. Morning, May in England, Ascot Priory wood. In a clearing by the pathway, a branch invites a bow. I lay my forehead on its bark, its skin on mine is cool with rain. These trees, once, belonged to nuns who too found time, between bell and candle, to walk and wonder, to look overhead when summoned by the wind’s reason and the leaves’ reply. Now that whisper is for me and some friends, here for a retreat. My room in this place once was someone’s home. I…
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Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Placenta
Today’s Sunday Inspirational Poetry is: Placenta Look to the tree, how it remembers the clay that once pressed, loam-loving, round its kernel through which it roamed out, a tender and unseeing shoot, groping towards the light of day and the airy, spangled light of night. Poked itself up, thin and twiggy-green, dazzled and drawn by the taste of wind, the touch of sky, to rise and rise. Oh yes, sap soaring, up it flew, thickening to wood as it went, circling its circles, and pouring out leaves and fruit, leaves and fruit, leaves and fruit, to flare and fall, year after…
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Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Dark Night
Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Dark Night As creative entrepreneurs, we’re doers by definition. But sometimes, when things get hard it’s not about doing, it’s about lying low and doing nothing. Not even thinking. This is a poem for the days when things get hard. Dark Night: A New Poem Sunday is lazy day for me, so here on the blog each Sunday I reprise one of my inspirational poems about some aspect of creative working and living. For as little as $2 a month, you can become a poetry patron and receive books and other bonuses and exclusive poetry written just for…
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Haiku: Moments of Creative Presence. This week: Waterfalls
at might of water / crashing down a fall we can / but stand and stare. . Haiku Moments of Creative Presence: Waterfalls. Every Friday on the blog I showcase one of the haiku I’ve posted during the week on my Instagram account. This week’s was inspired by the Dublin canal. I write and read haiku because I love how it cultivates mindfulness and creative presence. Writing a haiku is an act of transcription. The moment of life that we’re experiencing through our physical senses gives us the poetry. We see and hear, taste and touch and inhale the moment. Then we allow…
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This Week’s Create Date: Moonwalking
This week’s create date was spent in Gladstone Park at 6am on Thursday morning. On the off chance that you’ve been buried in a creative cave this week, as I was for a day or two, a blue moon, super moon and blood moon all coincided on Wed night/Thursday morning. A blue moon is when you get a second full moon in a calendar month, as we have this January. A super moon is when the moon is unusually close to Earth, making it bigger and brighter. And a blood moon is a moment during an eclipse when the moon…
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Creative Writing: Today’s Poem To Inspire: Rainbows
First thing this morning what do I spy over the houses between the trees through the cloud and by gift of fractured light seven strips of color in an upside-down smile adorning the sky? For me, a poem is a key, unlocking a moment in time and revealing the creative depths that every moment holds. Poetry brings us to creative presence. Interested in reading more?
Continue readingBreaking Out Of The Box
When you need to be creative or innovative, try this simple break-the-box, mind-body bridging exercise from Dr Stanley H Block. Part 1: The Box. 1. Name the specific situation that makes you feel boxed in. 2. Take a piece of paper, write the situation in the middle of the page, and draw an oval around it. 3. Take 1-2 minutes to jot down around the oval whatever pops into your mind about that situation and your attempts to
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