One of my favorite ways to be inspired by other poets is to begin my journey by collecting words from other poets by including a poetry reading practice into my writing practice.
What I love about this first word offering from another poet is the "everyday life" aspect of the content. It isn't a big a-ha moment she is seeking, but asking her poetry muse for guidance in her everyday life as a Woman, as a Mom.
What I love about this first word offering from another poet is the "everyday life" aspect of the content. It isn't a big a-ha moment she is seeking, but asking her poetry muse for guidance in her everyday life as a Woman, as a Mom.
"Release a stanza
from the sink's hot suds
where dirty dishes glow
Seal a message inside:
encourage me to hold on.
Inform me
in detail
exactly how to do it."
Kate Daniels in Prayer to the Muse ofOrdinary Life
One of my daily practices as a writer and poet is to read at
least one published poem a day. I have a wild assortment of poetry anthologies
to choose from and my normal way of finding a poem to read is simply to open up
a chosen book and read wherever my eyes fall. Today my eyes fell upon a poet I
have never bumped into before. Now she has managed to take
both arms and pull them out at the sides in an enormously full stretch. She did
all this with her word power.
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