COLLABORATION WITH JANELLE OF:
"SOMETHING NEW" AND "LIFE BREATH POETRY"

THE MAGIC OF POETRY IS IN THE NEW!!

Hi folks, well it’s all about that new experience; that letting go and allowing yourself to experience new things. When Janelle ask me to do a collaboration with her about experiencing something new, I thought hey why not, that should be easy because I remember then, that this is what poetry is about, seeing the new in the everyday things, so I quickly agreed and I was not disappointed. as it turned out great. When you think about it, poetry function the same as life. Each poem was once a blank page on which we sketched something surprising and new just like our life. A poem tends to focus on the new, taking the familiar and drudgery things of life and making it new. When we look at life, each day is like a blank page given to us to write a new chapter in our life.  Remember when we were young and the world was filled of first times, the first time we went to school, rode a bus or rode on a plane? Think about the excitement you felt and how your mind was suffused with new thoughts and feelings as you experience these new and different things. Just because we are grown up now and have been there and done that does not mean there aren’t any more new things out there to experience.

The world is a pretty big place and there are interesting things all around us. We just need to find our muse by going out there and find new thing that we can experience. One’s destination may not necessarily a place but a new way of seeing things. According to Friedrich Nietzsche, original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing but instead by seeing the old familiar things that is over-looked as something new. It’s about exploring different options, searching the corners of your mind and allowing yourself to find new ideas and inspiration that would entice your muse to come out and play, life becomes interesting and colourful this way. 

Poetry is much the same way too, it searches out new ideas and find new ways in seeing the things of life, be it love, tragedy or heart break, poetry can take that and turn it around into something surprising and new. Poetry goes beyond the vision of ordinary life; she hears the grass grow and the hummingbird’s heartbeat and can hear the silence roar. In poetry just as in life, when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and becomes new. This is demonstrative of the magic and power of poetry, to see things that lie beneath the surface and expose the hidden and by taking the ugly in life and beautifying it or show the beauty that was always there but hidden, it’s simply seeing beyond the ordinary.  So let’s live our lives poetically, try your hands at something different, like painting, canoeing, dancing or even writing a poem.  Explore new ideas and experiencing new things, this is life, because Poetry is life and Life is Poetry.  

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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. ― Rumi

Thanks Janelle for this collaboration.

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