Creative Insights

How does being creative help you? Have you noticed how it can help others? Have you experienced a creative insight or moment of truth? We all have those 'aha' moments when we 'get' something. Sometimes they can be profound and sometimes they can be about everyday things. Either way insights and creativity were a source of inspiration for our writing today.



CREATIVITY

How can it not help?
Finding me
Tapping into
That something
That nothing
Within
That endless letting oneself
Fall into one`s own
Self


- Pauline




INSIGHT

A sinking in
A connection
An Aha! moment
A fitting of the key
Into the lock
Opening out into
A still pool of
Light


- Pauline

RESURRECTION

As a person who had no work ethic 

I found myself making an effort

Following on from my old English teacher 

Was this simple formula:

           One hours work out of class for one hour in class

I was balancing housework with school work

And I found myself amazed 

By the things I could accomplish

I know now that even with an illness

I can put the effort in

To have the ability to match people who are 'normal'

I will no longer define myself with a label

I will be me, despite people reacting 

With ignorance and fear

Every person on the planet is a human being

With good and bad traits

I will respect others and if they don’t respect me

I will say my goodbyes

We are all together as a species 

Bonded by love and concern

I will love myself in spite of what others say

And I will continue to do my own thing 

Regardless of what other people think.

- M.F.

CREATIVITY

To write myself right

I sometimes have to be wrong

To be wrong and be saved by a song

To sing is the best of all things

Sometimes I just tune in

And hope I’ve got the frequency right

Sometimes, within the static of someone I’ve wronged

I find my own music

Sometimes the melody of the static song

Is all I have to cling onto

A drowning girl clutches at a musical note

Note to self - adjust the tuning before I turn on my own voice

- M.F.




A POSITIVE DISTRACTION

I make something out of nothing
Take a break from my thinking
Produce something original
Maybe even useful!

It doesn't have to be beautiful
Sometimes I'm not even careful
Other times, pedantic
Those times I'm not so quick.

Sometimes with clay
I will play
Other times cotton or wool
Wrapped around a spool.

Or popsicle sticks
(not ones that I've licked)
Cut and shaped and glued together
Maybe with a piece of leather.

Looking at my finished piece
Will not cause me to cease
Onto the next one and the one after that
There's always something more to have a go at.

Then to exhibit
Hoping others like it
Maybe even sell!
A bit of a head swell.

So nice to think I can make something good
Something that a stranger would
See from afar and want to buy
Gets me on a massive high!


- Christine.




NOT ALL GOOD

As I learn more about my parents
And their childhood
I learn more about myself
And my childhood.

I can understand their actions
And their words
I can understand my actions
And my words.

It helps make sense of so many things
But it also causes frustration
When I keep acting and thinking the same way
And getting myself to the same place
Over and over and over again.


- Christine




EGOTIST IDIOT

The idol lit up

An erogenous area untouched

That had been tapped

An ego deflated

A part of me

I failed to see

I see now

And I celebrate it

- Dylan Anderson

OCD

A pit opened up

My stomach hung

My soul drooped to the carpet

I heard a resonance, a feeling in my heart

Words I threw up

Were heard

And written

A feeling of purgation

My mind

An Ouroboros completed

In negation

- Dylan Anderson

GARGLED THOUGHT

Murmur

Words

A feeling

Of creation

Meanders

And is suddenly

Existing

Drifting

And

Equated

With the

Plughole

All water goes down

As does meaning.

- Dylan Anderson




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Murmur

Words

A feeling

Of creation

Meanders

And is suddenly

Existing

Drifting

And

Equated

With the

Plughole

All water goes down

As does meaning.

- Dylan Anderson