Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?
Day 29 Prompt
And now, for our prompt (optional, as always). This one is called “in the window.” Imagine a window looking into a place or onto a particular scene. It could be your childhood neighbor’s workshop, or a window looking into an alien spaceship. Maybe a window looking into a witch’s gingerbread cottage, or Lord Nelson’s cabin aboard the H.M.S. Victory. What do you see? What’s going on?
Day 29 Poem
Window
As I lift myself from writing on this page
And temporarily escape from my self-imposed imprisonment
I step outside, just a few feet in the backyard
The left over lumber is piled up
Weeds are growing underneath and through
Trying to reach inside this home
I make plans to create a chair for the fire pit
That stands stoically in the yard
With the branches of fallen trees waiting to be burned
The rotting sill with cracked paint holds back the vegetation
Since buying this house I’ve never been able to open up the window
And allow fresh air to flood into the room
When my neck was fused with metal
I laid in this dungeon that spawns my creativity
And I would look out through this portal
Praying for relief from the choking on water
Praying for relief from the pain
I’d set up scenes with various objects
And take photos of them
With the light trying to brighten this space
That was my escape
That was something to focus on while I recovered
Alone
Scratching at the suffocating neck brace
Attempting to find a way to sleep while sitting up
Now I lay on the couch
With the tv on to provide background noise and distraction
And often I gaze out of this opening to the world
My soul crying out for adventure, travel, something new
Only to be met with rabbits, birds and squirrels
Eking their way through this world
Finding nourishment in the unkept lawn
I can hear my children play in the yard
And often I bury my head under the pillows
Trying to find the elusive sleep that night fails to bring
One day I will open you
Remove the glass barrier that is fragile
Yet it is a barrier I allow to confine me
One day you will be the instrument of my release
Reaching Out
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