Playing With Poetry

Express the mess and release the stress! This guided session invites you to use poetry as a way of connecting with your deepest self. We begin with a short introduction and some prompts, exploring how to write to, from, and about the different parts within. As you follow along, you’ll be invited to give voice to hidden feelings, unspoken truths, and buried wisdom through the art of words. This process supports healing, release, and reconnection, while opening new pathways of expression and self-understanding.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to the session.

Today we're going to be practicing playing with poetry.

The idea is to use a page to express the mess and release the stress.

We're going to be using writing as a form of healing,

As a way to connect to the deepest sense of the self and to offer an opportunity to release what we're holding on to.

Now I'm calling this practice playing with poetry but it's really all about getting words onto the page.

So for the purposes of this session we're going to define poetry as words on a page.

We can but we're not going to worry about the form or structure or rhyme or alliteration or metaphor or any of the other things that we might normally associate with poetry.

Yes,

You are more than welcome to bring them in and to use them and if it helps I encourage you to do so.

But it's not necessary.

For our purposes today our goal is to get words onto the page.

It's to express not impress.

It's to check in and release.

But before we begin I just want to highlight why.

Why do we do writing?

Why can we use poetry as a form of healing and expression?

What makes the page and poetry so special?

Well,

The page is something that we cannot get from external sources of healing,

From therapy or friends or from groups.

Simply put,

The page is the ultimate listener.

It doesn't judge.

It has a perfect memory,

Yet can be discarded easily.

It's practically free and always available.

It has no preconceived notions and it will not interrupt you.

And what's more,

At the end of a writing session you can do whatever you like with the page.

You can keep it,

Store it,

Review it and work on it at a later time.

And we'll talk about that a little bit later in the session.

But you could also choose to ritualistically discard it.

Release it.

You know,

Like do a burial.

Safely burn it.

Flush it down the toilet.

Bury it.

Or in some other way,

Use some other process to release what was written with those words.

The page is unique in this way.

So as I said,

The goal of this session is to get you writing,

To get you expressing,

To get you putting words upon the page and releasing what's arising inside.

For this session,

I would ask you to have a pen and two pages in front of you.

I would also ask you to be ready to pause the audio at any time to give yourself more time to express.

I will insert small delays,

But you are welcome to pause and write as long as the words are flowing.

To this end,

I might offer a suggestion of time.

For example a minute,

Or five minutes,

Or however long.

But it's up to you to monitor and determine if you need more.

Because if the words are coming,

If the expression is coming,

If things are getting onto the page and you're in that flow,

If you're in that zone,

That is the ultimate goal.

That is what we want.

We want words on the page.

It is not about completing this session.

Indeed,

If the words are coming right now,

This session's job is done.

Pause the audio.

Start writing.

To be clear,

If whatever we're doing here gets you writing and you're not really following along with the instructions,

That is the highest level of instruction.

That is the highest goal.

To get writing.

To get words up on the page.

To express the mess and release the stress.

So use what I'm saying here as a guide,

As a suggestion.

And if the words flow,

Allow them to flow.

So with all that said,

We're going to enter the process in this way.

We're going to prepare ourselves with two pieces of paper and a pen.

Then we're going to check into our body and our mind.

Start a free writing process,

Priming the pump and getting words up on the page.

Then we'll look over those words and find a theme,

And from there attempt to distill what is arising to become as specific as an expression.

As possible.

From that distillation,

We'll work to open it up.

To perhaps use analogy or metaphor or rhyme or alliteration or any of the other tools we would like to best express the distillation of what is arising inside us.

And finally,

I'll talk you through the idea of sharing and the pros and cons of doing so.

We'll end the session by returning back to our bodies into the present moment and putting the pen down,

Perhaps for a later time.

So with all that said,

Let's set ourselves up.

Get ourself prepared with our two pieces of paper and a pen in front of us.

Pausing the audio to grab that if you need.

One of those pages in front of you will be a free writing page.

Where you can express whatever's popping up.

It can be as messy,

As odd,

As random,

As just blotted down.

A free expression sort of doodling page.

The other page will be a bit more of a formal page.

A page where you'll take what you've written on the first page and sort of formalize it.

Work with it.

Sort of manipulate it or mold it.

So we've got a free expression page and we've got a focused writing page.

So now that we've got that set up,

I'm going to take a couple of slow calm breaths.

Check into our body and our mind and begin the process of free writing.

So begin perhaps by closing down the eyes.

Getting yourself comfortable.

Taking some slow calm breaths.

Just checking into the body.

Noticing any tensions,

Any feelings,

Any points of constriction or numbness.

Just paying attention to the body.

Noting if you're holding on to anything.

Just witnessing.

Just noting if there's anything you're holding on to and anything that needs to be expressed.

Now drawing your attention to the mind space.

Just witnessing the things that are arising.

Noticing any thoughts,

Emotions,

Memories,

Future focused fantasies or anxieties,

Any visualizations,

Sounds,

Anything else that is just popping up in the mind space.

Just taking a moment to note the contents of consciousness.

Okay,

Now drawing your attention to the entirety of the body and the mind space.

You're just going to witness what is arising.

And now picking up the pen and one of the pages just begin by free writing.

Just noting down what is popping up.

Any sensations,

Any mental phenomena,

Any themes.

Just jotting it down.

We're going to do this process without judgment,

Without filter,

Without thought of grammar or spelling or editing.

Just writing down the thoughts and the moods and the memories and the emotions and the physical feelings and everything else that is popping up.

Just writing down what is arising onto the page This process is known as priming the pump or getting the gunk out of the pipes so we can get to the good stuff.

Pushing out the dirty water so to speak so we can safely drink.

So just keep writing whatever is popping up onto the page.

And if you find yourself hesitant,

If you find yourself worried,

If you find yourself blocked and not wanting to write something down,

There might be some gold there worth exploring.

Sometimes we're so nervous or so cautious and concerned about some of the stuff that's coming up that we don't even feel comfortable putting it onto the page,

Even though only us are going to read it.

If this is happening,

I encourage you.

Be brave.

Jot it down.

Go slow but be courageous and express it.

There is something important here.

Something that might benefit from having the spotlight of attention put upon it.

And on the other hand,

If the words aren't coming,

Perhaps literally try writing the following.

Dictating what I am saying until your own words come.

I am doing a free writing activity.

I am doing a free writing activity.

To get words onto the page.

To get words onto the page.

And at the moment,

Nothing much is coming.

And at the moment,

Nothing much is coming.

But if I keep writing,

Eventually the words will flow.

But if I keep writing,

Eventually the words will flow.

And of course,

If at any time the words do start flowing,

Write them down.

Just keep expressing,

Keep writing,

And keep getting the words onto the page.

Know at any time you can pause if the instructions are progressing beyond where you are at.

But perhaps start looking for a theme.

Is there an overall idea or concept starting to develop?

Maybe you could write the concepts you're seeing,

Or perhaps draw some lines or circles around similar terms,

Or aspects,

Or similar emotions.

Or perhaps parts,

Or places,

Or times from your past.

Just taking note of the connections between different events and the different words that you've written upon the page.

Just noting down the theme or themes that are arising.

Once you notice a theme arising and it's resonant,

It feels powerful,

It feels like something you'd like to explore,

We're going to look to distill that theme.

And really refine it down to a specific point.

So once again,

Taking some time to look over what you've written upon the page,

Noting down the theme or themes that are arising,

And noting if there's something that is calling to you,

Something that is calling to be worked with,

Or that you'd really like to express in this session.

And once again,

If you're not there yet,

Just pause the audio and take it back up when you are ready.

But if you are ready,

Really take a look over the words that you've written upon the page,

And the connections that are popping up,

And ask yourself,

What exactly am I trying to express?

For example,

You may have a theme like love or fear,

But what kind of love?

Is it the love of a romantic partner,

Like a passionate love?

Or is it the love of a parent to a child?

Is it the love of a process or a hobby?

Is it a friendship?

Can you be as specific as possible?

Really,

Really refine it,

Get it down,

Distill it to the most pure expression of what is arising.

Something that will be specific and unique to you.

The flavor might be love,

But what specific tones and notes and occurrences?

Refine it down.

You could go through the same process with a negative emotion,

Like fear.

Fear is broad,

It's overarching,

But there are many different kinds of fear,

Bodily fear,

Primal fear,

Jealousy,

As in the fear of someone taking something of yours.

Be as specific as possible in the way that the theme is popping up for you.

Your theme may be a word,

Or a collection of words,

Or perhaps an analogy,

Or a metaphor.

It could be an image.

However the distillation is coming,

Try to be as specific and clear as possible.

As an example here,

I will point you to a small poem I wrote.

I wanted to express the idea that at the time I often didn't feel that much joy or happiness.

But when I did,

When that joy and happiness did come,

It came in waves,

It was overwhelming.

I wanted to express that idea.

The themes and the words that were popping up were coming up all around that idea.

So I was playing around with this process,

With the idea of my joy and happiness not coming up much.

I was working with the theme of joy and happiness,

But it not arising much,

But when it did it being overwhelming.

So I was almost in like a desert,

But also this flood,

This overwhelm.

I'm circling this idea in my mind,

Circling and circling and circling.

Eventually this small poem came up.

Now the poem itself is six words,

And it forms a distillation of theme.

Now I could choose to extend and express more down this path,

And indeed I have in other works,

But the poem is so simple and such an obvious distillation that it works perfectly as an example here.

My joy is like desert rain.

That's it.

That's the poem.

That's the distillation of thought.

My joy is like desert rain.

The idea being,

And the symbolism and the analogy being that it doesn't happen often,

It didn't occur much,

But when it did the entirety of the landscape is flooded by flowers and overwhelmed.

But just as quickly as the beauty comes,

It passes.

I.

E.

My joy came,

It overwhelmed me,

And then it left,

And the desert returned.

But when it came,

My God,

It was there.

My joy is like desert rain.

Now that distillation will be unique to you,

But if you can get the distillation down to a word or a phrase or an expression or analogy,

That would be ideal.

So what I've written there,

That six-word poem,

That could be enough.

You might go,

Okay,

That's it.

Just the distillation could be the release that you're looking for.

So if all you come up with in this session is a six-word distillation,

There could be a phrase like the poem that I just shared with you.

My joy is like desert rain.

That could be enough.

But you could also choose to extend it and express it,

And we'll move on to that soon.

But still working on the distillation,

Consider the idea of an analogy.

An analogy is like saying this thing is like that thing.

This happened like that.

For example,

I blocked my emotions like a dam across a river.

His laughter was like the blooming of flowers in the morning.

Her voice crashed over me like waves against rock,

Slowly,

Relentlessly,

Eternally.

Their eyes shone like the sun,

Warming all who were lucky enough to receive their gaze.

You can go on and on with this,

But I encourage you to take a time,

Perhaps pause the audio,

And play,

Experiment.

The process thus far,

What we've been doing thus far,

Is we check into ourself,

We do some free-writing of what's popping up,

We look for a theme,

And then we start distilling it down to the purity of expression of what it is.

That's where we're at.

If you need to,

Pause the audio,

And when you're ready,

We're going to look at extending it,

Opening it up,

And maybe making it more into a true quote-unquote poem.

In terms of extending it,

This is where we may get into some hang-ups around poetry theory.

Like I said at the start of this session,

For our purposes,

Poetry is words upon a page.

So at least at this stage,

I don't want you to stress too much about how the poem is going to be expressed.

If,

As we're extending things out,

There are rhymes,

Then great.

If it follows a traditional structure,

Like a sonnet,

Or an ABAB rhyme,

Or a haiku,

That's all well and good.

If it's a monorhyme,

As in every single word at the end of each line rhymes,

Great.

If it's alliteration,

That is all of the first letters of the words,

Or most of them,

Start with the same letter,

Or the same sound,

Awesome.

If those things come,

I encourage you to use them,

And indeed,

It can help with expression.

But it's not necessary.

The act of teaching the different styles of poetry is not what we're here for.

And indeed,

There are whole books,

And theories,

And courses,

And tracks,

And a lifetime of refining the craft of poetry.

And if you're interested,

I encourage you to go down that path.

But that's not what this guided session now is for.

What we're doing today is playing with poetry.

And the most healing thing to allow us to do is to express the words as they come.

So we can draw upon the idea of metaphor,

The ideas of analogy,

Tools like rhyme and alliteration,

And all of those other things.

But we don't have to.

We are free.

We are free to express what arises as it comes.

So I encourage you to look over your distillation,

And on your second page,

Perhaps starting to write an extension.

Really spell out what is popping up.

What does that distillation mean?

We've refined it down to a point.

We're going to start playing with extending it out,

And really expressing the core truth of the distillation.

What exactly are you feeling?

And what is the least amount of words you could use to express it?

That's the sort of only rule that I would have you stick to.

If you can express the feeling in less words,

Or more words,

Always choose the smaller amount of words.

If you can replace five words with two,

Use that.

We want to be as sharp and as clear and specific as possible.

Unless,

Of course,

The flow of the poem is to express the ramble,

Is to play with a sort of more free-flowing,

Almost free-expression piece.

So like I've said,

There are no rules,

But in general,

If you can cut words,

The better.

What exactly are you feeling?

And what's the least amount of words you could use to express it in?

Would adding in a rhyme help or hinder this process?

Now if you're not sure about rhyming,

Or about alliteration,

You can play a little bit of a game here.

So once again,

Feel free to pause the audio and have a little play around with this.

But there's two little games that you could play.

It's called Rhyme Time and Alliteration Arena.

Rhyme Time.

You say a word,

And I encourage you to choose one of the words from your distillation,

Or from the themes that you've expressed on the first page.

And you just write down,

Or just say out loud,

Or just note down any rhymes that pop up with that core word.

For example,

If you wanted to work with the basic word love,

What are some rhymes that could go with love?

Pause the audio here before I spoil some.

But you might say love,

Glove,

Dove,

Shove,

And so on.

Or perhaps if you go down the idea of the theme of hate.

And once again,

Feel free to try and come up with some on your own here.

Pause the audio if you like.

But,

Hate,

Mate,

Gate.

What you can do with this idea of rhyme time is look at those words that are rhyming based on the core theme,

And put them in there.

So,

Hate,

Mate,

And gate.

You can almost start to see a connection between them,

And it's starting to tell a story.

Very,

Very briefly,

And this isn't as deep,

Because we're just sort of playing around with it here,

But the gate,

And a hate,

And a mate.

You can start to play with some symbolism or some metaphor of your mate was behind the gate,

Filled with hate.

We start to get some story popping up there.

Some metaphor,

Some sort of deeper truth than just the words on the page would suggest.

Love,

Dove,

Glove.

You can almost toy with the symbolism,

Or the idea,

Or the imagery of being restricted.

Restricted,

Covered by a glove.

But your love wants to be free.

Flowing like a dove.

Or perhaps you're going down the idea of a magician pulling a dove out of a hat,

Wearing a glove.

I'm just throwing ideas out there,

But you can see that with any of the words that you've used in the theme expression,

Or in the distillation,

You could start playing with.

So I encourage you to consider looking over the words you've done,

Pausing the audio,

And just playing with some rhymes based on the distillation,

Or based on the themes that you're working with.

Give that a try.

And the second idea,

Or the second game that you could play is alliteration arena.

Once again,

Similar to rhyme time,

But rather than using rhymes,

You're playing with alliterations.

Alliteration is almost like a reverse rhyme.

It's when the first letter of each word is the same.

So I'll use the same words we did before.

Love.

Try and think of some words that begin with L.

Pause in the audio if you'd like.

But you could play with love,

Lake,

Lesson,

Letting in.

And once again,

Combining all of those into some symbolisms,

Or some analogies,

Or a bit more of a deeper story.

The lesson of the lake was to let in the love.

Obviously these are basic things,

But you can sort of see where we're going with this.

Same thing with hate.

Think of some words that begin with H that you could play with.

Hate.

Haunting.

Harrowing.

Healing.

You could play with those words together.

Releasing the hate was a haunting and harrowing experience,

But ultimately healing.

So once again,

I encourage you to pause the audio,

And to perhaps check out the themes and the distillations,

And see if there are any alliterations that you could work with.

Now once again,

I want to remind you that what we're doing here is getting words up on the page.

We're just playing.

We're just expressing.

So feel free to use the idea of rhyme or alliteration,

Or perhaps any of the other things that you've heard about poetry.

For example,

A haiku,

As a way to structure and set out or extend the distillation.

Once again,

If you're looking to play with a haiku,

A haiku is a poem that is structured with 5 syllables,

Then 7 syllables,

Then 5 syllables.

The idea being is that you express a little bit of a story,

Or a little bit of an idea in that structure.

And the restriction of the haiku almost gives you a tight,

Concise,

Focused way of really highlighting the distillation.

So an example of a haiku that I've written would be an ocean of depth,

Heart held well beyond mere sleeve,

Acceptance of all.

So the first line an ocean of depth 5 syllables A second line,

7 syllables,

Heart held well beyond mere sleeve.

And third line,

5 syllables acceptance of all.

Now in that poem the act of restricting it to a haiku,

5,

7,

5 syllables,

Made what I'm trying to say there far more concise,

Far more focused,

And took out a lot of the potential fluff that you might get from trying to express those feelings.

Basically the distillation of what I was hoping to do was to express how someone in my life was able to unconditionally fully accept me and everyone they met.

An ocean of depth held behind the eyes the idea of holding your heart upon your sleeve,

But even more so than that,

It's not just being themselves,

But it was more than that.

More than that for everyone,

The acceptance of all.

Once again I'm not saying you need to use a specific structure.

Other ways that you could structure a poem might be the ABAB rhyme,

Where the last word of the second and the fourth line rhyme.

You can do that and if that's how the poem is coming,

If that's how the words are coming up on the page,

Great.

But if they're just coming down as a jumbled mess or it's coming down as a paragraph and you're releasing remember that is the goal.

That is what we're aiming to do.

That is what we're hoping to get to.

So with all of that said,

I encourage you to look over your distillation,

Look over your theme and really consider what you're feeling.

What is the least amount of words you could use to express it?

Would rhyme or alliteration help or hinder the process?

Do you need to explicitly and overtly state what is coming up?

Or could you allude to it?

Could you hint at it?

Could you paint a picture with words?

Do you want to use a monorhyme?

An ABAB rhyme?

A haiku?

Do you just want to free flow and express?

All of it is right.

All of it is poetry.

And whatever is coming up is the goal.

Now I encourage you to pause the audio here and spend as much time as you like crafting this poem.

But I think it's time to highlight the following.

In these sessions we write,

We express and at some later stage we review.

At the start of the session we were talking about a sort of judgmental part.

Perhaps a part that might be akin to an editor.

Now if you feel compelled,

You could come back to your writing at a later stage or in a later session.

Or perhaps just later today in this session.

But for the moment we're just trying to express.

Free expression.

Flow.

No thought of what we're producing or the end reader.

Just getting it out.

But at some later stage we may say to yourself,

I'm going to let the editing the judgmental,

The reviewing part of my mind play with this poem.

Because after we've written it down and expressed it in this session and after we've paused,

You may be able to see that the feelings that we're expressing,

The things that are arising from a more detached perspective.

And you can come back and look at the poem.

Look at your words and say,

Okay I can cut this word.

Or I've repeated myself a bit here.

Or maybe I can replace this word with one that rhymes and it'll sound better.

An alliteration.

Or maybe a structure is appearing and you need to switch things around a little bit.

You can even play with line breaks.

Now this is a little bit hard to express via the audio medium.

But if you imagine the words upon a page.

We're not just writing a slab or a big paragraph.

Or rather you may be but we can play with that to make it look more poetic.

Imagine for example if you were writing on a computer screen and you choose where you press enter to move the words down.

Where the next line goes.

And where you put or choose to put those line breaks is itself a form of expression.

Each line break,

Each enter that you place causes the reader to pause.

It's like a little bit of emphasis.

So you can play with that.

So you might rewrite your poem or look at what you've gotten and play with how it's presented upon the page.

Play with the line breaks.

But also begin to play with grammar.

Where do you put a full stop?

Or commas?

Or question marks?

Or exclamation marks?

Insert them.

Don't insert them.

Just don't overdo it of course.

Or perhaps don't even include them.

Sometimes I make poems that have no grammar.

Not even capitalizations.

Just words on the page with line breaks.

Lowercase.

No commas.

No full stops.

Nothing.

Just expression.

But it's totally up to you.

So once again I encourage you to pause your audio and play with it.

Tweak it.

Refine the poem down to its purest expression.

The purest expression of the distillation that you've been working with.

What exactly are you trying to say?

What exactly are you trying to express?

And I want to remind you here that you're not writing for an audience.

You're writing for yourself.

To express.

The idea being is that when you come back to this poem when you re-engage with it,

And indeed if you're doing that now it will be an apt expression of what you were feeling.

The distilled version.

The idea of this poem,

And I'll remind you back to the My Joy Is Like Desert Rain poem is that it's almost like a zip file.

The poem itself becomes a,

Like a box or a bag or a zip file on a computer where you can re-read it and it sort of triggers or re-engages or sort of opens the box back up.

You can go,

Yes,

I've purely expressed this.

I've captured the feeling upon the page.

I've got it out.

So take a moment,

Pause the audio and perhaps play with tweaking,

With grammar with line breaks,

With switching out words and really getting it down to an exact expression of the distillation.

Now with tricky emotions with complex emotions,

Or with just time and effort,

You might realise that you need more than one expression more than one poem,

More than one session.

And if that's the case,

Feel free to play this session anytime and also just sit with the pen and the paper and go through the process.

Check into the body express what's coming up,

Find a theme distill it down,

And then express it out.

Because it's here that I'd like to remind you of the benefits of the page.

You can keep what you're working on,

Or you can discard it.

You can choose to share it,

Or ritualistically release it.

The choice is yours.

So feel free to play with this as long as you like and pause the audio at any time to express.

But what I'd like to do now is share perhaps the benefits of sharing,

Of offering your poem to the world.

And don't get me wrong,

This is not something you have to do,

But it's something you could choose to do because sometimes the act of performing and sharing the poem is itself a deeper,

More vulnerable more fuller expression and deeper healing.

Personally I often choose to express,

Not everything but a lot of what I write,

I release.

I choose to share.

And it might be something unique to my personality or my experiences playing with poetry,

But there is really something beneficial to sharing.

Like I said,

I'm not saying you need to do this,

But the more that you share your poetry,

The more that you read it,

The more that you release it into the world so to speak,

The more you can accept what you wrote the more you process it,

And the more your feelings become the world's story so to speak.

Whatever you've written onto the page today,

You've expressed it,

You've processed it,

And if you've shared it,

In the act of sharing you begin to realise that other people also have similar feelings They don't have your story or your distillation but they can connect to the words upon the page and that connection between you and them and the world is beautiful.

It's healing for you and for them and for the world.

So I'm not saying you need to share your poem and indeed doing so may have some risks.

You're opening yourself up you're being vulnerable,

And you're putting yourself and your soul on display so to speak and that can be confronting and scary and like I said,

I don't share everything I write but I share a lot,

And by doing so it heals and fosters connections.

So there's an option there So if you like,

I invite you to share it as a response to this session during a live session,

With a friend or a family member,

Or online,

Or perhaps at a poetry reading if you feel comfortable but of course,

This is just an option So let's take a moment to review the process We checked in we expressed what was arising we looked for a theme,

And then we distilled it down to something specific.

From there we extended it out playing with rhyme,

And alliteration,

And analogy and perhaps some other tools of poetry,

Like haiku,

ABAB rhyming,

Or monorhymes.

But with the overall goal of just getting words upon the page We had a little discussion about the idea of editing,

Taking a pause re-looking over the poem,

And then engaging with the editing part saying hey,

Let's refine this,

Let's chop away some of the superfluous words,

Let's change it a little bit to make it the perfect expression of the distilled feelings we had And finally,

We had a little discussion about the idea of sharing the work,

And the benefits and risks of doing so Now this process,

Playing with poetry expressing the mess to release the stress,

Is a skill it's one that will take time.

Indeed,

It can take a lifetime I've been writing for quite some time now,

But one thing I've discovered is that the more I do it,

The better I get at doing it The easier it is to get the words onto the page,

To express the mess,

And when I look back over it,

When the editing part or the sharing part pops back up it's more and more impressed and happy with what I've written It's a skill set,

And one that benefits from repeated work.

So I encourage you,

Come back to this session,

Either replay this exact track or just do it by yourself,

But come back to the process of playing with poetry,

And over time,

You will find you get better,

The words will come quicker You will find the rhymes flowing,

And you'll be able to distill the words and find truth,

Find what you're trying to express,

And be able to do so easier,

And quicker,

And deeper But like any skill,

It takes time and practice,

So please do come and return and write again I guess the final thing I'd like to say on all of this,

Is that the act of writing engages something that I like to call the muse,

The creative part the part inside that wants to express So you've got a couple of choices here,

You can return to this practice formally,

You know,

At a later stage,

Setting a timer or playing this track again,

And saying to yourself,

Right now for the next duration of time,

I'm going to write I'm going to express,

I'm going to do the idea of playing with poetry Or you could perhaps choose to keep yourself open to expression This is what I do,

I find myself carrying with me a pen and a pad at all times,

Or a spare phone that literally just has the function of notes And I do so because,

Well,

I'm a poet,

But also because I know that having the opportunity,

Being open to being willing to have the pen and the pad ready to capture what's arising,

Results in more expression That's something that I do,

And it's great,

But the downside is that when a poem or feelings feel like they need to be expressed,

I have to pause what I'm doing,

Pause my life,

And express,

So it's up to you But if this session has resonated,

I encourage you to return back to it,

And,

Or perhaps keeping a pen and pad on you at all times,

Waiting for things to come to express Either way I want to remind you that the purpose of what we're doing here is to get words upon the page Writing to express,

Not impress to release and to reconnect I want to thank you for joining me,

I hope that now and in the next few days the words begin to flow,

And indeed if you've engaged with the practice thus far,

They will So be ready,

And enjoy the process,

And I hope to read some of what you've written Of course,

That's just an invitation I'll see you in the next session,

Catch ya