Now that I am writing poetry Ridgerli. And in a weekly critique group with poets. I am giving myself time to write and rewrite poetry from 40 years plus.
I like that he says “…drop yourself down the well.” because it’s from the well, I can write from NOT my head and not always from my gut, I write from the well of myself. And I don’t have the exact address for getting to the well Nor a map to find it.
If you write poetry and maybe you have a map to find your personal secret well, do tell me about yours.
Thanks, Deborah Taylor-French
I consider myself to be a “creative” individual in a very broad sense of the word, and I do not have any road map which gets me to a private secret well. In fact, I would question whether I even have a private secret well. My creativity, in whatever form or medium it presents in, does not come from a hidden stock of ideas, but more from finding a place within which has ideas to compliment a particular direction that I am traveling at that time. I have written as a result of personal feelings; of imagined scenarios, and as a simple blanket to encompass a particularly appealing phrase. The only tangible creative direction that I have experienced is a compelling desire to start writing as a result of a visual stimuli. Didn’t somebody say “The eyes are the windows to the soul” ? I guess that would be my response, which suggests that I have just argued myself full circle. My creative reservoir (my secret well) is in my soul. 🙂
Greetings: ooh, very nice! Thought provoking for sure. And I am woefully behind sharing your Moon Valley Poem!!! Will get to it. Spring got so busy. Annibella
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Date: Sat, 16 May 2015
Intriguing question raised by you. I have in the past written poetry but it seems to be my way of voicing angst and unhappiness. Ergo, I am delighted to admit that I haven’t written a poem for a long time! 🙂
Paul, my former youthful soul lived much beset by unhappiness and sorrow, hence my poetry came prompted by similar moments. Glad u haven’t been living in that same young adult sad country.
Thanks for commenting. Off now to answer other comments. 😀 Deborah
What a delightful comment, and a circular one to boot! When I referred to “the well” or “a well” I pictured a deep source connection with LIFE or soul. Certainly, sitting and caring for a garden connects me to soul or LIFE.
As does riding a calm horse on a trail or “forest bathing” as the Japanese use in an unique word.
Which dear, Ray & Colin, is the topic of my next blog post, “Shinrin-yoku.”
No worries, Annibella. I believe I will be writing this week on American Mustangs and to rally US citizens to protest to their congress persons the new specter of wild horse slaughter for meat. Oh, yes, again the monstrous business has returned.
So to balance the bad and the ugly I can turn to you and your lovely Equisance Moon Valley Ranch in Santa Cruz, California. If you have any photographs of your chickens and cats, please email me a few to use along with a photographer credit, okay?