It’s a bit strange title for the blog post, isn’t it? This is a different approach to writing prompts and exercises that you are accustomed to on this blog, but the last thing we want is to be boring and monotonous.
And before you dismiss whole idea, because it sounds silly – actually it is all about being aware of different perspectives. This is a sort of continuation of blog posts related to mindfulness and why not taking a role play as a foundation for writing prompt? To go even step further, let’s imagine that you are a poem. What would poem have to say? We use our writing as a tool to release our anger, love, passion, depression, fears, admiration, secrets, desires…Is your poem tired of you? Are you whining all the time? Are you always concentrated on what’s going on inside yourself that you missed a beautiful, strong and passionate winter storm? The birch outside your window doesn’t have any leaves, have you noticed that?
Or you are trying to please everybody all day and you forgot to smile. Can you count how many times you smiled today?
Do you remember your latest dream? And when was the last time you danced to your favorite song?
Let your poem tell you all that. Imagine your writing is a mirror, what is it reflecting? What is missing out of your life? What is too much?
This is something I like to call reversed mindfulness. You are observing, noticing, listening…but instead of what is, we can focus on what isn’t. Our poem can tell us that story, a sort of self-reflection that shows us where our life is at, right now and what we can change.
It doesn’t matter if its humorous, boring, exaggerating – nobody is perfect, so neither is your poem. It’s about the understanding how we can enjoy life more.
So here’s the setting: It’s time for your writing. You are about to sit at your table but there is already a piece of paper waiting for you. It’s a poem, addressed to you and it says: “Dear_______
So, this is my take on the exercise:
Dear Maja,
how are you today?
Another grey Tuesday in the sunny Hague?
That rainy hat you are teasingly pressing on your head
Forget it…let it blow
like a wild bat…
Feel the wind through your hair,
that boring despair – leave at home
(there’s no such thing “a graceful yawning”
I can tell you that!)
And why there are only two crossed lines
on your forehead?
Smile with your face,
you don’t have to know everything just yet.
Life unfolds, there is a reason I’m saying you this.
Stay close to me, my dearest friend.
You are not alone – like the Moon follows Earth,
I’m behind you, invisible, most delicate thread
you’ll understand, close your eyes, jump over that doorstep.
What your poem has to tell you?
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