Ahhh dear writing self, you’re at it again.

If I don’t do something creative it’s like my heart shrivels and I lose my zest for life.

Creativity is to be cultivated and is right up there on the ol’ Self Care List with ‘drink water’.

This week I decided I wanted to wake up in states that didn’t have me twitching with existential dread, I wanted short morning creative ease. A new orientation, a new ritual to go along with my cup of coffee.

Poems are good for that sort of thing! Just go all loose and groovy in a low stakes creative ritual. This is not to say poetry is always low stakes or unimportant NO NOT AT ALL!

Poetry is life sustaining and this kind of emotive dream-talking is, I believe, something we all need more of these days.

And also if you want a micro dose of a creative hit or are wanting an entry point to creativity, a small little poem play hits the spot.

So for the week, some random words. One for each day. A little theme to dance around.

Tangle

Ashes

Pulse

Threshold

Fracture

Lantern

Mirror

Salt

Drift

Echo

Pen keyboard pencil paper phone note, feel the theme and start the incantations around it…

Giving this a go.

How about you?

A writer endlessly reinvents themselves. Creative phoenixes, the lot of us!