BRING IT!

Bring on the sunrise.
Bring on the fire.
Bring on a day
that will inspire.

   I hope you are enjoying your Presidents Day.  Have you been able to get any writing done today?  Try, even a little haiku.  The picture shows the sunrise that greeted me today.
On my walk this morning I fed the ducks.  It is becoming a small daily treat for me.  I threw some of the bread crumbs into the pond and was delighted with the fish leaping up to grab the food.  What was a treat in your life today?  Can you try writing a poem about it?  Have fun.

 Left to its own devices, writing is like weather.  It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day.  Julia Cameron

AT THE BEACH

Here at the beach,
I'm having fun,
playing my trumpet,
watching crabs run.

Waves crashing,
a gentle sea breeze,
monkeys screeching
from tall palm trees.

You're collecting seashells
in a sandy pail
you stop and listen
to my trumpet wail.


     I couldn't think of what to write today, so I opened a book--HOW TO VOID MAKING ART (or Anything Else You Enjoy) written by Julia Cameron with illustrations by her sister Elizabeth Cameron.  Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005.  The page I randomly opened to had this caption, "Under no circumstances make any art just for fun."  You can guess what the picture looked like from my poem.  What kind of art do you like doing?  Do you ever write poems just for fun?  That is your challenge for today--write a poem just for fun.  Enjoy the journey.