Looking back over poems I wrote in the past, I realise what a catharsis they provided and thought it a good idea to try and get back into the swing of it. I needed to make a small statement (and a trial).
Start Again
How long, how many years?
Pen on paper held no fears
Laziness, time, other things
The good and bad that it brings
So back to it, start again
New book and brand new pen
Conscious to make the time
To find that special word to rhyme
Throw emotions out in words
From realistic to absurd
My own form of meditation
To re-read all my own creation
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to discover the Oasis vegetarian restaurant in the city. Dylan took me there yesterday. They have a wide range of delicious fake meat and vegetable dishes. I’ll keep going back if Amy doesn’t cook me lunch.
This morning, I got up a little earlier so that I could do my 5 minutes of exercise and start getting back into some good habits again, and I think it really helped set me up for a positive and happy day.
I’ve started sketching again when I go for my coffee and also want to start writing more poems too. The one I wrote today may be the first one I’ve written in, I don’t know, two decades or more! I used to look out for interesting phrases I would come across and use them as a basis. I came across a cool phrase today in some article I was reading and jotted it down. I hope to keep inspiring myself in different ways whenever I can.
Things are good today. George even looked me in the eye when he was talking to me today. Even that small change made me feel good.
I went to visit Bruno and Nut after lunch, and we talked mostly about his garden exploits – he’s really into it, which is cool – it’s great to see his enthusiasm for it. It inspires me in that direction, too, but I am still a little lazy when I get home from work. Or, more accurately, I prioritise other things instead.
1994ever 
Ah yes, that’s one kind of starting over which is always absorbing.
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The blank page challenging us to write something apt, original and interesting can be quite a daunting prospect. I usually draw something on it first, then a few tentative words (maybe they rhyme too), and then I write!
(Nick – Intelliblog)
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I’m, luckily, rarely stuck for words or ideas, but making something ‘good’ or ‘different’ from them is a challenge. I read a lot of other people’s work yesterday and was amazed at how good much of it was. I was quite humbled.
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Cheers to beginning again ~ Your rhyme scheme works beautifully in this charming poem.
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Thanks Helen 🙏
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lovely….happens to lot of us..
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Thank you 🙏
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A really lovely spin on the prompt.
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Cheers 🙏
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This was exactly the sort of thing I had in mind when I heard the prompt. Our first steps back to the things we love don’t have to set the world on fire. The little sparks of joy they shoot off in our hearts are delicious in and of themselves.
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This one’s easy to relate to! (Why did I think EVERYONE in a poetry group would interpret “starting again” in terms of things we wrote, probably late at night, long ago, and gave up as hopeless, and now think, maybe, in a different form…?)
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When it comes to poems, I rarely get stuck. I just stop, figuring that what I have is enough, that I’ve emptied that well. I also rarely go back and revise but I have been thinking about it more recently, particularly when new writes are often around the same theme.
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