21 April 2012

Creative joy


Creative Joy

Creative Joy


is finding poetry

in everything

twisting the words


to carry vision, to

evoke a sense

of feeling in your

gut, the plumbing up

of goose bumps on

your skin

watching, the way


the wind flirts with

the grass, collides

with my breath, sends

a leaf tumbling down

the road, turns the

hair on my arms into

marionettes spinning

noticing, 
that sometimes


I get in my own way

seeing, when I


am the silk cocoon

wrapped around

the hungry caterpillar

of my own

heart

knowing,


that the sinew

sometimes binding

me to fear doesn't

weather rebellion

well, that the hull

of heaviness can

either be added to

or abated from
the whole,

that it only


can be loved

into action

it's the chase,


running down an

inside revolution,

footfalls on a

sidewalk at night,

chest heaving, heart

at a full-tilt tick,

the pull


of the pin

the release


the opening & closing


of the shutter, five, ten,

twenty times before you

are at peace with the

portrayal of the moment,

it's capturing it on the


first click,

the last brush
 stroke

sliding across
 the canvas,

ruled lines


waiting for the warmth

of your fist resting

between words

hitting your stride,


stumbling, giving in,

letting go, celebrating

your victories

& learning &

loving yourself

through your

defeats

it's the seed,


the roots & the bud

it's the flowering


of yourself

it's the process


it's the meaning


& the means

to a meaningful

life


from  amanda

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