The sea insistently calls out to me
Asking me to immerse my body to heal
Time to release my woes and be free
The rhythm of the waves invites me to feel
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Asking me to immerse my body to heal
Winter’s day is cold and makes me shiver
The rhythm of the waves invites me to feel
My cold, wet body begins to subtly quiver
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Winter’s day is cold and makes me shiver
Time to release my woes and be free
My cold, wet body begins to subtly quiver
The sea insistently calls out to me
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© Carol Campbell 2016
Here’s where you enter into this creative equation:
Review your past week and note any times you consciously chose a different than your norm choice.
Does anything come to mind?
If it doesn’t, you have a couple options to inspire your poetry writing.
Prompt:
Create a fictional “new choice” and write from that imagined experience OR go out into the world and consciously make a choice that is different from your norm.
If you have a recent experience to write from, enter into that recent memory with all your senses. Tease out details of what happened, how it was different, and what you saw, heard, smelled, tasted, physically felt or touched and any emotional connections as well.
In whatever case works for you, use your senses to purposefully evoke memory. The sense of smell is especially good practice for poets as it ties in with the most primitive parts of our mind. What you write will be evocative and interesting and perhaps take you down a path you hadn’t thought of until you do this exercise.~Julie Jordan Scott
Poet’s note: Thsi does not reflect anything I’ve done in the past week. I did when I was younger. 😉
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you were a polar bear in your youth? 😉 lovely poem though I don’t think I could have gone for a cold swim no matter how liberating! you are a brave soul!
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I WAS a brave soul. Not so much now! 🙂
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When I was in Scotland one winter, some of the group stripped down and ran into Loch Ness for a swim. It was in the teens that day. I watched from shore, dry and warm. When they left the water, they realized their error–no towels! Some of their clothes also got wet. I was the only one who didn’t catch a cold! So I hear you about not being brave. That day I was so glad common sense (and my dislike of being cold) override my exuberance!
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What an experience. Was Scotland as beautiful as I’ve heard? BTW, I was fully clothed. Not the sharpest tool in the shed 😉
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I told my friend to disrobe or she might have ended up soaked through clothes and all. Some folks did as you did and jumped in fully clothed. I held my friends things and it’s good that I did! The tour guide splashed his way into the water (he had swimming trunks with a wild pattern on them I struggle to remember) and piles of clothes got wet but not friend’s because I stepped back out of the spray. Scotland was lovely though really cold since we visited on holiday break from college in February. I would like to go back and spend more then 3 hectic days there in warmer weather and this time, stay in a hotel! I stayed in a hostel that time and what an experience that was! We were on a bus tour for ultra cheap but we saw a lot, slept very little though.
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That’s the kind of experience that any young person can grow from! I’d love to go there.
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I saw just the highlands and it was such a busy trip that afterwards everything blurred together leaving me wanting to go back and take time to properly enjoy each site.
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That’s the way I like to do it too.
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😀 I wish I had been able to do that then–but I was a poor college student abroad with very limited time between classes.
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I can never walk by the seashore during winter. I did a few times when I was young. it’s so forbidding, so cold, the air almost bitter, wanting to bite off my face. will the chunks of ice ever get unfrozen?
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