How I keep writing when the feeling is larger than the vocabulary. There are moments in this project when the words are simply not enough. I sit down to write a scene and I can feel exactly what I’m reaching for, but the vocabulary refuses to show up. It is like standing in front of a thin veil. I know something is on the other side. I can feel its weight and its outline. I just can’t quite see it yet.
Hi Sam! I truly enjoyed this, thank you! In our modern hyper control society even creative feel compelled to control their processes of creation. You destroy that false approach completely, as it should be.
I liked Mo's comments. I would add an additional layer onto his concept of the somatic source of our thoughts and ideas.
Yes, our bodies contain a memory of all that came before us that became the genesis of who we are. After all we were born from the expressions of love between thousands of couples, parents, grandparents, etc. Each one of those moments of love is embedded in our bodies.maybe great-great-great grandma Marcy is in my middle finger as I slide my fingers through my granddaughter's hair will braiding it wilh mine, and Marcy's love, appreciation, and adoration of this next generation of one continual love story.
But beyond our somatic memory and heritage, our souls were formed and exist in spirit, created and endowed into our bodies by the "Great Spirit" as our Native American called it. Modern Western culture calls it the Hoky Spirit. This is where our own soul and operative spirit derives from, and which is still connected to! Just like the life-rythm of your heartbeat of your body is a continuum from yout mom's heartbeat, and her mom's, etc, all the way back to the first heartbeat that was created by God.
So I believe that the place of origin of our most authentic-self-poems is from the harmonic resonance of our own soirit/soul with the Holy Spirit which is God itself, the origin of everything that has ever been created! Thus "harmonuc resonance" of each our own spirits with the Hiky Spirit brings us poems without words but poems that are authenticly unique to each of us as our own souls and spirits mingle with that of the Holy Soirit, making us an indispensable co-operator in the creation of the new work, poem, thought, and action in our lives!
We are embodied spirit-people, and both our bodies and souls are who wr are.
As a side note, there are also malevolent spirits that exists apart from the Hoky Spirit. These spirits can also reach out to you through the same interplay of your spirit and theirs. You will know them by their lack of compassion and love. They are full of sel pride and ego in defiance of all that is Love, Kindness, Peace, and Mercy. I suggest giving no attention or participation to these spirits. They will bring no health, happiness, or joy into your life. Rather, only the opposite. Remember, you are the sovereign over which "harmonic resonances you allow to enter you and take form within you. This is part of your creative role in choosing and co-mingling your spirit with what is presented to you.
I say the because, if I remember, you are interested in dystopian fiction. The origin for this interest is often from the Hoky Spirit as it resonates its disgust of the extortion, selfishness, brutality, etc, of dystopian environs. Bringing these destructive aspects. to the awareness of people is a good thing. Yet, also, there is a malevolent side of the genre that can aggrandize the dysfunction and promote it as an acceptable, even noble, view of society is a very distorted way. I reccomend choosing not to celebrate dystopianism, but reveal it for the anti-human thing that it is.
So sorry to the lingering lingering comment! I really enjoyed reading this piece of yours!
Hi Paul! Thank you for such a deep and generous reflection.
I write from a very intuitive place, rather than from a theoretical one. To me dystopia is not something to be normalized, and I have no interest in trying to turn the darkness into an aesthetic or goal.
For me this writing is a way to reveal what usually stays hidden. The darker atmosphere brings the emotional and moral undercurrents into sharper focus. In the beginning of this story are the people shaped by power, fear, control, or technology.
My poems grow out of that contrast. If the light is not visible in the text itself, I hope it rises in the reader as a counterpoint.
I have really enjoyed this journey so far. Writing fantasy poetry helps me understand in more depth. And it has potential to create room for conversations like this.
Thank you Mo for your reflection on this. I too believe this is something that happens with all forms of creation. I love the point you make on somatic based intelligence.
I paint too, and the process feels similar, just without the vocabulary.
I guess we could call it flow. I wanted to share this from the viewpoint of poetry writing, because I’m often in awe of how things turn out. When I slice it like this, it has a chance of making sense. Or maybe not. At least to me, anyway.
To me, It feels like carving fruit from the softest part of my own body and offering it up, bruised and luminous, still bleeding truth onto the page.
Hi Sam! I truly enjoyed this, thank you! In our modern hyper control society even creative feel compelled to control their processes of creation. You destroy that false approach completely, as it should be.
I liked Mo's comments. I would add an additional layer onto his concept of the somatic source of our thoughts and ideas.
Yes, our bodies contain a memory of all that came before us that became the genesis of who we are. After all we were born from the expressions of love between thousands of couples, parents, grandparents, etc. Each one of those moments of love is embedded in our bodies.maybe great-great-great grandma Marcy is in my middle finger as I slide my fingers through my granddaughter's hair will braiding it wilh mine, and Marcy's love, appreciation, and adoration of this next generation of one continual love story.
But beyond our somatic memory and heritage, our souls were formed and exist in spirit, created and endowed into our bodies by the "Great Spirit" as our Native American called it. Modern Western culture calls it the Hoky Spirit. This is where our own soul and operative spirit derives from, and which is still connected to! Just like the life-rythm of your heartbeat of your body is a continuum from yout mom's heartbeat, and her mom's, etc, all the way back to the first heartbeat that was created by God.
So I believe that the place of origin of our most authentic-self-poems is from the harmonic resonance of our own soirit/soul with the Holy Spirit which is God itself, the origin of everything that has ever been created! Thus "harmonuc resonance" of each our own spirits with the Hiky Spirit brings us poems without words but poems that are authenticly unique to each of us as our own souls and spirits mingle with that of the Holy Soirit, making us an indispensable co-operator in the creation of the new work, poem, thought, and action in our lives!
We are embodied spirit-people, and both our bodies and souls are who wr are.
As a side note, there are also malevolent spirits that exists apart from the Hoky Spirit. These spirits can also reach out to you through the same interplay of your spirit and theirs. You will know them by their lack of compassion and love. They are full of sel pride and ego in defiance of all that is Love, Kindness, Peace, and Mercy. I suggest giving no attention or participation to these spirits. They will bring no health, happiness, or joy into your life. Rather, only the opposite. Remember, you are the sovereign over which "harmonic resonances you allow to enter you and take form within you. This is part of your creative role in choosing and co-mingling your spirit with what is presented to you.
I say the because, if I remember, you are interested in dystopian fiction. The origin for this interest is often from the Hoky Spirit as it resonates its disgust of the extortion, selfishness, brutality, etc, of dystopian environs. Bringing these destructive aspects. to the awareness of people is a good thing. Yet, also, there is a malevolent side of the genre that can aggrandize the dysfunction and promote it as an acceptable, even noble, view of society is a very distorted way. I reccomend choosing not to celebrate dystopianism, but reveal it for the anti-human thing that it is.
So sorry to the lingering lingering comment! I really enjoyed reading this piece of yours!
Carry on! Peace and Blessings to you and yours!
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Hi Paul! Thank you for such a deep and generous reflection.
I write from a very intuitive place, rather than from a theoretical one. To me dystopia is not something to be normalized, and I have no interest in trying to turn the darkness into an aesthetic or goal.
For me this writing is a way to reveal what usually stays hidden. The darker atmosphere brings the emotional and moral undercurrents into sharper focus. In the beginning of this story are the people shaped by power, fear, control, or technology.
My poems grow out of that contrast. If the light is not visible in the text itself, I hope it rises in the reader as a counterpoint.
I have really enjoyed this journey so far. Writing fantasy poetry helps me understand in more depth. And it has potential to create room for conversations like this.
Happy to have you as a reader Paul.
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Thank you Mo for your reflection on this. I too believe this is something that happens with all forms of creation. I love the point you make on somatic based intelligence.
I paint too, and the process feels similar, just without the vocabulary.
I guess we could call it flow. I wanted to share this from the viewpoint of poetry writing, because I’m often in awe of how things turn out. When I slice it like this, it has a chance of making sense. Or maybe not. At least to me, anyway.