18/04/2018 - Text: poetry

Using Skillshare online teaching website, took course: Poetry 1: intro to making poems-led by Cameron Conaway - PoetHe asks 'What is a poet?' - Something tangible and inside, Write to make the small large, the minutiae of everyday to make it mean something. This really struck a chord with me, I have always kept private books with poems in, just something I have done since school, I had a wonderful english literature teacher that encouraged e to write for fun and I carried on.His first task is to find a Theme -  Something physically close to us, or that stirs emotions,  or that we are interested in learning more about. The activity is call 'Action 10' which is  10 minutes long, 5 minutes sitting meditation, followed by 5 minutes free writing, No filter, no editing, no stopping, no self censoring; just continuous typing or writing.Second is 'Finding your thread' - the part of us tethered to our theme.Action 10-10 minutes right as we sit. Write about what matters or care about the same.Small noticing: Detail, Minutely organised particles, a bright particular star, bubbles in the dishwasher, The Billboard, The light on grapefruit. Procrastination has a purpose. It allows you to absorb the small noticing marinate on it, perkily. Adam Grant-Commit.Action 10 five minutes sitting meditation with notebook small notice things five minutes free writing look at notes and free right.MY WORK:ThemeContinuous writing - 5 minutesWindow, grid, tree, chaos, framed, captured by window frame, cat peers out, restricted, watching, lines of houses, neighbours house, pipes, Windows, Doors, Wall, horizontal, vertical, window curtain, screen, bookcase, bench, rugs, tiles, doorway, fridge, door, fan, me, door, walls, tiles, grout, Lines, paralleled, straight, orders, recline, linear, tidy, confined, Beautiful, completed, complete, fractured, snapshots, vignettes, Moments, frames, cropped, cutoff, removed, connected, perceptions, perspectives, paralleled, reflect, actions, reflective, fractured, reflections, disjointed, imperfect.ThreadContinuous writing - 10minsportals, boundaries, screens/frames, vignettes, encased snapshot of something, an edit, a consumable piece of a whole, a glimpse. how I manage my thoughts, breaking things down into pieces. making them fractured to be consumed, the segments of an orange make it more palatable, a slice, a serving. With so much on offer, so many options it provides a limit, a restriction - to keep things from running off, to maintain control. the media and its edits, the control of information available and that which is not. you only know what you know. the comfort of knowledge. the discomfort of the unknown, the unpredictable - health, happiness, the unpredictability of life - OCD & Anxiety - cause and effect - relinquishing control - carelessness, responsibility, comfort of routine / discomfort of unpredictability - can you find comfort in the unpredictability? Small Noticing's - detailsPlanting a garden is to believe in tomorrowthe stillness of the windowthe leaves twinkling in the sunlightthe silence of the scenethe rumble of the washing machinethe frame containing the leaves that disappear beyond its edges of viewVertical edges, horizontal binds, shadows and bricks, reflectingthe containment of the busy window within the windowthe cropped visuals of vases through embroidery hoopsthe lack of associated soundthe buzz of the fridgethe twinkle of the cat water fountainthe whirls and clashes of the washing machinethe twitters and squarks of birdsthe buzz of an irritating flythe rise & fall, ripple of the sail shade, silentthe jostle of the jasminethe bamboo windchim renders silent by the glazing POEMS:windchime Glass renders it silent,Its movements make sweet music.Its song remains unshared until someone, the window, opens. window portals,boundaries,encased snapshots,  an edit. a consumable fragment,a glimpse, palatable.  calm jasmine jostlesleaves fold I watch steel and glass containassuaged by structure the wind blows but not here