Chad Silverstein on writing poetry with a group and what your first poem reveals about you. He struggled to write something that resonated, then learned from Chet's advice about finding your melody line. Start writing, enjoy it, share what works.
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I remember it came up in practice one day where we had read a poem and I think someone challenged us to write our own poem. I can't remember exactly what practice it was, but I remember thinking it just didn't resonate with me and I couldn't do it. But I thought about it and now I read today's discipline, and maybe I'm in a different place. But if you were to write a poem about anything, You can write a poem about anything, what would it be? What would it be about? What would the emotion be? How would people feel when they read it? How clear would it be? Would it rhyme? I think the answer to the question, what would you write? What kind of a poem would you have? It's very telling. It's worth thinking about, especially if your first reaction was, eh, I'd write a poem. So today, 364, Chet shared his you got to get comfortable singing your melody line at some point. You might as well start writing it now. Feel good about it, and if it ends up being really good, share it, have fun with it.