How do you cure writer’s block? You write.
I had the fun and inspiring opportunity to join a writer’s group sponsored by Blue Star Families, and it was a terrific kick in the keister to get writing. Poet Seema Reza led us through an analysis of David Allen Sullivan’s powerful poem, “Permission Granted,” followed by a prompt based on the poem. Here’s mine. I think it’s been a million years since I share some poetry here:
You do not have to be a reticent or reserved. Embrace possibility.
You don’t have to bury your dream. Take them out and dust them off.
You don’t need to write about the plan. It changes. Transforms. Just as you do.
You can let the wind carry you, refresh you, tousle your hair, and shake you up.
You can float in the clouds that cushion you, high above the ordinary.
You can be yourself, free and wild, loose and graceful.
Revel in the storm; its beauty, unfamiliar, inspires.
Feel its movement. Do not resist.
See yourself.