Where to start with phrases that struck me like a bell. Thanks for that. Now, maybe, I can start writing again... in fact you've offered the seed of metaphor I feel like tending.
That's my own metaphor for writing poetry - gardening. Maybe it's just me because the soil, the seeds, the plants, and the trees are where I really live.
Oh, and if you have any favourite Zone 4a rock garden plants you love, let me know; planting time is almost here.
Excellent essay, Pearl. At my stage of life, the issue of rationing energy is all the more looming. My brain needs slack time to get bored with itself and start inventing something. But it’s the earlier part of your piece that really hit home - about opening your poetic spirit to the new, the unexpected, letting it in even if it doesn’t quite “fit”. Sometimes needing a jolt from outside. Thank you for this essay.
Where to start with phrases that struck me like a bell. Thanks for that. Now, maybe, I can start writing again... in fact you've offered the seed of metaphor I feel like tending.
That's my own metaphor for writing poetry - gardening. Maybe it's just me because the soil, the seeds, the plants, and the trees are where I really live.
Oh, and if you have any favourite Zone 4a rock garden plants you love, let me know; planting time is almost here.
Excellent essay, Pearl. At my stage of life, the issue of rationing energy is all the more looming. My brain needs slack time to get bored with itself and start inventing something. But it’s the earlier part of your piece that really hit home - about opening your poetic spirit to the new, the unexpected, letting it in even if it doesn’t quite “fit”. Sometimes needing a jolt from outside. Thank you for this essay.