“Lessons in Natural Writing”
Make the mental shift: feel yourself float,
let words and associations freely
mix. Sense that time changes pace, sidesteps
as the world surges past.
Make the mental shift; let emotions
and images rub shoulders, pictures
whole but mute. Unstop your
innocent, random wondering.
Make the mental shift; feel the
rhythms, hear the sounds
play with the language of
ideas and shape a choice.
Make the mental shift; focus
the emergent patterns complex
and unique, the lightning flash
of vision that begs you to write
Now make the mental shift
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Life’s Circles
Life circles, souls renew. Ancient friends and lovers,
Seek each other anew, In the faces now of others.
In the eyes, dwells the soul. When like hearts meet,
The exchange is whole. And half becomes complete.
Julie Whitley is the author of the Secrets of the Home Wood series, a fantasy adventure. She has been enjoying her retirement from nursing with a return to her early passions of writing prose and poetry and painting. She works in both oils and watercolour. Her three grandsons joyfully occupy the remainder of her time.
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Thank you Julie. I too am inspired in natural settings.