Blogging
I spent part of today with a young man struggling to keep his head above water, on a number of levels. We discussed poetry, living and the problems of keeping your ‘shit’ together when things are falling apart. Our stories are many years apart and in so many ways unalike. Yet between us there was the common thread of suffering and trying to come back from the brink.
I don’t know how his life will pan out, but I do know that his efforts to write and rewrite his story through poetry will help him and help his writing improve. I also think his ability to live in this world WILL get easier.
How do I know? Because I have been there. I know my journals, in all there disorganized and foggy way (I don’t write sequentially or even write from front to back – I don’t even finish one before I start another one) have been a great boon in helping me move forward. I can even say that my poetry has improved, at least I think it has!
But even better than writing poetry is having it heard and read, so here is one of my latest, an example to help the students in my upcoming workshop
This workshop will be held as part of the Kurilpa Institute of Creativity’s 2011 Winter Outreach Programme
BLOGGING
Who’s game?
Put yourself
online?
on-the-line?
Anytime? for
all time?
Blogging.
Slogging. Each
day in a new way
find something else to say.
Blogging.
Cleared back-logging.
Clearing thoughts
identifying
multiplying
& edifying.
Journalling to cyberspace.
A clear race
to find grace.
Sharing, sparing and pairing
and paring word
to simply say
let’s all share the best day
today. Everyway.
Hooray.
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