Set your iPod to shuffle. Write down the titles of the first ten or twelve songs. Feel free to mix them up, move them around, drop or add words. See if something strikes you. Take that kernel and try to express it in your own medium, your own way. Two examples:
Find you now
Embraceable you
walkin' West Ave,
at the club --
It's a wonder.
Dead men walking, watermelon boogie in the passage
Only the heart may know, once in a while.
Halo.
I will never be the same.
Phantom alone on the farm
painter song
Black & white bookends
Celebrate sh-boom Zaar
up, up and away
My heart would know freedom
All or nothing.
Find you now
Embraceable you
walkin' West Ave,
at the club --
It's a wonder.
Dead men walking, watermelon boogie in the passage
Only the heart may know, once in a while.
Halo.
I will never be the same.
Phantom alone on the farm
painter song
Black & white bookends
Celebrate sh-boom Zaar
up, up and away
My heart would know freedom
All or nothing.
If the words don't work, pull the blinds, close your eyes, and dance a little. See what your body has to say.
1 comment:
The image used here is part of a triptych I was inspired to make from the second "shuffle poem" example. Shuffle poems aren't intended to stand on their own as completed works. Think of them as tools to open you to new creative expressions in whatever media you love.
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