Things to make you smile,

to make you think,

to feel more human?

Or more correctly to

invite

you to smile,  AND  think,

AND feel more?

Or are they perhaps things to help you

remember?

To remember your human side, your interior kid, your potential?

Or maybe, the reverse is more true -

are they perhaps to help you forget?

Forget what?

Those crippling habits of thinking, habits of feeling?

We all can recognise that sense of being weighed down,

constrained or trapped by mental or emotional habits.

Ugh!

Seems like thinking is certainly something we need to free up.

But then what frees up thinking is freeing up our ability to feel.

There’s not a lot of negative thinking around if you are full of well-being.

Same when you are doing something well that you enjoy; when  you can understand and accept your place in the universe and are quite naturally allowing yourself to be a conductor of energy and change.

Society’s demands on us, the daily grind, the oppression of routine can be

constricting and our thinking and feeling as a result

can  get a bit out of kilter.

Whether we are cooks, cartoonists, composers or builders, basket-makers, gardeners, painters, plumbers, web-designers, novelists or merely poets then the freezing up of our creative spirit therefore  is a bit important.

Not because we want something we can’t have

but because it is our natural state to be some sort of free spirit:

and in a waking state if you like, rather than the opposite!

And here’s another paradox!

We are likely to, enter that state, unexpectedly,

when we dream!  Those personalised workings of the Constant Flux!

So what is a

poem now?

A dream,

a habit confounder,

a spirit-catcher?

An agent for freedom?

Or perhaps a ‘numenism!’

?

A strange key that opens to higher emotions, higher thinking or

even the higher aesthetic sense.

That’s what the dictionary says.

Someone said the World is always more creative than we are! 

‘It’ is more creative then we can ever be.

Why not then call a poem a kind of  spell?

Nice and simple!

A spell to magic up the state of

receptiveness to change and,  thereby, to creativity itself? 

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT!

Or do you?

Let’s see!

………..

 

BY THE WAY

THESE POEMS (OR SPELLS) ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER.

 JUST LOOK AT AS LITTLE OR AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE

AT RANDOM, THE CHOICE IS YOURS.

SOMETIMES THERE ARE GRAPHICS AFTER THE POEM. THIS IS DELIBERATE AS WHEN YOU HAVE SEEN THE PICTURE IT MIGHT TAKE YOU BACK TO THE POEM AGAIN AND YOU MAY EVEN FEEL LIKE SAYING IT OUT LOUD.

THESE ‘SPELLS’ BENEFIT FROM THIS KIND OF HALF-WAY MEETING POINT.  THEY WILL THEN  BREATHE AND BECOME  THEMSELVES OFFERING SOMETHING PERHAPS IN EXCHANGE.