środa, 7 lutego 2024

It Is Like This, and Like This, and Like This... or: It's Not Like This But Rather Like That



Listen to the podcast or just to the poem shared at the beginning of it: https://onbeing.org/programs/victoria-adukwei-bulley-not-quiet-as-in-quiet-but/

Then choose something - it could be absolutely anything - and explore its nuances in a form of a poem. If you'd rather go for a piece of prose, go for a piece of prose.

For example, if you have chosen Sadness as your exploration field, you can write something like this:

Sadness

It's like when nobody remembered
your birthday, or no one cheered 
you up to go for it, whatever it 
stood for you.

It's like someone says something mean, 
and means it, even if they have
apologised.

It is like autumn leaves - falling,
falling.

Like falling out of love.

Like love gone.

Like a single glove
shining black
on the white
of snow.



Hunting For Meaning

We're going to read "The Hunt" - a short story by Steven Nightingale and hunt for different things as we go. First, jot down a...