Comments on: Creativity Circle Prompt – Will You Join The Dance?

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:31:29 +0000

Hi Amy, thanks once again for the invitation to join you on the dance floor. I’ve written something on a site I’ve created for ‘my own’ writing. Although I have shared some personal pieces including poetry on Confident Writing, it’s not the natural home for it and I wanted somewhere a bit more quiet and private where I could post a different sort of writing. It’s still good to be able to share it though, and this circle seems a good place to start. Your invitation prompted me not just to write a piece but to tidy up the site so I could in fact welcome a visitor or two. Thanks

Here’s my piece: Dancing Lessons http://writingwalks.com/dancing-lessons/
Joanna Young´s last blog ..Coaching Questions from the Season: the Essence of Fall

By: Steve Sherlock

Steve Sherlock — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:13:25 +0000

@Allison, crafting sherku is a writing exercise and I am always wondering if I have lost the essence by condensing. Thanks to your comment and Joanna’s I have kept it in this one.

@Joanna, yes, the dance is a great metaphor for a successful relationship. While he lead, she needed to respond and he needed to be aware of her as well as the surroundings. It is a give and take relationship to be successful.
Steve Sherlock´s last blog ..Two left feet

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:25:08 +0000

Amy, I love that invitation, it works on so many levels…

I look forward to seeing where my muse takes me on this one

Paddy, thanks for the encouragement to let the pen go where it will, even if the pattern isn’t immediately apparent

Steve, I really like that sherku, it could be a description for a lifelong love affair as well as a dance, don’t you think?

Now I’m off to read Allison’s piece…
Joanna Young´s last blog ..Some Words that Count

By: Allison Day

Allison Day — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:15:37 +0000

Amy – Thank you. I do hope that piece can be inspirational to others who may have hesitations about returning to passions or even just hobbies that they once enjoyed, but that may have fallen by the wayside.

Steve – So simple, and yet those few words capture the essence of dance so perfectly. Beautiful words.
Allison Day´s last blog ..An Interview with Casson Trenor

By: Steve Sherlock

Steve Sherlock — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:16:58 +0000

I have been told I have two left feet but when I look down, I don’t see what they mean. I do admire wonderful dancers. They have such grace in movement. At the Lowell Folk Festival this past summer, a couple got up to dance to one of the groups and were moving so well, in and out of the crowd, it was like he had radar or one of those new auto alert systems so he knew where he could go without skipping a beat.

I tried to capture all that in a sherku here. It is so short, you don’t need to follow the link other than to view their picture.

The walk was crowded, the
Music too good to pass up
His touch led her along
Steve Sherlock´s last blog ..slow start

By: Amy Palko

Amy Palko — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:19:10 +0000

Wow – what a great poem, Paddy. Expresses so beautifully that frustration that is familiar to us all when we sit down to create and find the channel blocked. I look forward to reading a lot more of your poetry! Oh, and it’s funny when our creativity takes over and surprises us by adding extra words, images, rhythms, rhymes that weren’t there when we started, isn’t it?

Thanks for the lovely supportive comment, Tomas!

Amy
xx

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:02:36 +0000

your picture made me dance and thus while viewing her, I was overfilled just with one desire – My best wishes to you for the wonderful post, the unforgettable dance.

By: Paddy Hare

Paddy Hare — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:03:45 +0000

curiously, i didn’t write ‘one’ in the first line when i jotted this down on paper first, and i don’t conciously remember typing it either, but i really like how it fits into the first line. oddness…
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By: Paddy Hare

Paddy Hare — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:56:18 +0000

woo! inspiration for a little poem. I’m always annoyed that i think of cool bits of poetic lines but can never really string together a whole piece of work, except for now! huzzah! a finished piece of work for you all:

Dammit Pen!

A pox on you one ‘hybrid gel grip,’
I damn thee from clicker to tip.
I wish you’d allow for flowing prose,
but all I scribe is messy dross.
The key to my writing god only knows
but myself, alas, I’m at a loss.
Dammit Pen! you’ve done it again
ruining my creative process.
I’ve had enough of your inky charms,
so I’m going back to typing.

(actually I much prefer writing with pen and paper, sorry guys i’ll try and damn my computer another day!)

By: Amy Palko

Amy Palko — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:45:24 +0000

Oh what a perfect contribution to get us started, Allison!

I love how you’ve structured the post by giving updates on your progress, and I also love just how applicable your experience is to so many getting back to some form of creative expression, having left it for a period of time, for one reason or another. Some of us may not have picked up a crayon since we were a child. Some of us may not have written a story since our schooldays. Some of us stopped our dancing, our painting, our creating a long time ago. And it will be scary giving ourselves permission to take it back up again. What your experience shows, Allison, is that it’s so incredibly rewarding that it’s worth pushing through the fear.
Thank you so much for being the first contributor to the creativity circle!
Amy
xx