With my upcoming move, there is so much to do that my mind keeps racing. Sleep is interrupted and the to-do list keeps popping up at all hours. After reading Rebecca Brock, Day 17 prompt at Laura Shovan's 9th Annual February Poem Project, my brain kept churning. The floodgates of creativity opened and from beyond my comfort zone evolved the following poem.
EARLY MORNING CREATIVITY PROCESS
early morning
brain churns-
waking from slumber
thoughts interrupted-
brain freeze
creative impulses
searching for words-
no constraints
open the curious mind
to a new day
of imaginative thought.
©CV, 2021
The creative mind is restless. - Rishi Kapoor
The video I created with Lumen 5 is published on YouTube at https://youtu.be/UdF7zzCcARo.
Please visit to see the poem through a different lens.
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Tonight, troubled by Winter Blast #3 and continued COVID broadcasts, I created an image poem for Day 18 of the 9th Annual February Poem Project. Stacey JoyEleven Johnson offered an interesting prompt with a couple of shadow photos and a skinny poem. the poem below uses the Shadorma format and was created with the FotoJet platform. It was prompted by the third winter blast, COVID-19 broadcasts, and my final dose of the COVID vaccine, all amidst endless packing for my house move to Virginia.
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With an ample amount of snow covering our neighborhood once again, I toss my anxieties up in the air to enjoy some poetic goodness at Poetry Friday. This week, Ruth Hersey from Haiti, is our host. She is enjoying Carnival Week and creating a Facts of the World poem with facts offered from every Poetry Friday writer. Mine is about a surprising snowflake fact.
I continue to collect winter photos with poems from across the world. Interested?
Send your offering to my hashtag , @cvarsalona, and #WintersEmbrace2021 Gallery on Twitter, Facebook, or my gmail.
Dear Carol, I'm sorry you are losing sleep! So much going on for you... it always helps me in times like these to remember "to everything there is a season..." This too shall pass. Hang in there. And thank you for your poems! xo
ReplyDeleteGood advice, Irene. Writing is a good balm for my weary soul these days.
DeleteSoon, soon it will be spring and you will be all located and these days will be a memory. I do like how your getting up and out gets your creativity going. All that sorting is that REST from the brain article. Can't wait to see what comes from your creative time as you move through it. Well done on the poem for today.
ReplyDeleteYes, I need to remember spring sprouting in Virginia. Perhaps, a new journey will be so soothing. See you in your locale soon. I had my 2nd COVID shot and waiting for PWCHD to let us know when my son and husband can have theirs.
DeleteCarol, your racing mind created two lovely poems that combine words and images so creatively. I hope you will soon be settled in your new home. Moving is such an upheaval through the process
ReplyDeleteRacing continues, Kay, but now is my private time to slow down. Thanks for understanding about my packing upheaval.
DeleteI loved your celebration of creativity in the first poem."Open the curious mind/to a new day." I'm hoping to channel that tomorrow perhaps.
ReplyDeleteJanice, I hope your day was full of positivity. Thanks for joining me for a celebration of creativity.
DeleteYou know I love those "covid storms", Carol. Those along with "thoughts interrupted-
ReplyDeletebrain freeze" makes me want to give you a huge hug! This certainly is a time we'd never have imagined. I hope the poetry today does give you a pause.
PF and February Poem Project have been life pausers for me, Linda. I am grateful for my poetry friends and especially you for always being a constant in my hurried world.
DeleteHi Carol,
ReplyDeleteYour post, as always is filled with wonderful multimedia food for thought--and boy, do you have a lot going on! Good luck with your move. And thanks for sharing. I especially liked your video/poem!
Thanks for the good luck thoughts, Susan. What I like about the PF community is that we all share our comments and add in something personal. This way we feel closer to one another.
DeleteI loved your snowflake fact, and now I can see more about snow from whence those individual flakes flew! Best wishes in this busy time!
ReplyDeleteMary Lee, it is great to connect with you again. We both have busy times now but it is so wonderful to reconnect and add more depth to our poetic conversations.
DeleteMy best wishes for a calmer mind as you prepare to move, Carol. I love that we benefit with the fruits that your restlessness creates, though. :)
ReplyDeleteBridget, thanks for the best wishes. I think calmness will come after we tie up the last parts of our to-do list. For now, I wake at strange hours wondering when the calm will come. (Writing poetry soothes my soul.)
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