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Continue reading →: The daily poem (Spring), the daily writing prompt, progress on my New Year’s resolutions in March, intentions for April
What’s something most people don’t understand? That the universe does not revolve around you. I forget this too often and get swept up in my personal dramas. It’s hard to conceive of this entire universe around us that exists regardless if we are having a bad day, if we are…
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Continue reading →: Taking a break from painting to focus on my poetry book, the daily poem (On The Way Home From The Beach), the daily writing prompt, and exercise.
I’m taking a break from doing painting and drawing entirely. Right now all painting does is cause me anxiety and unhappiness. It’s a relationship I’m going to need to heal before I pick up art again. I haven’t expressed my true self through visual means in a long, long time…
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Continue reading →: The daily writing prompt, hair, overview of weekly intentions, and next week’s intentions.
I didn’t do anything creative today but I was pretty good about it this week and did 5 poems, 5 drawings, and I worked on my Bosch painting twice. So goal achieved for last week as far as creativity goes (I had set it at 4 days). Next week I…
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Continue reading →: Daily poem (Shaken), daily drawing, and the daily writing prompt.
Today’s drawing was a culmination of two days work so it counts as yesterday’s drawing as well. The daily poem is very short. It was written in about 2 minutes time and just stumbled out of my head in its entirety. Well that’s sort of half true, the first 5…
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Continue reading →: Poem (9/11), the daily writing prompt, and getting back into routines.
A friend and I were discussing 9/11. Where we were that day and what we were doing (I was living and working in Salt Lake City at the time). A few hours later, the first two lines of this poem came to me. Not sure where this is all coming…
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Continue reading →: Daily Poem (Together), the daily drawing, my Bosch study, and the daily writing prompt.
I wrote a poem dedicated to my husband because I wanted to write about something positive in my life for a change. Spring came into it because I took a walk yesterday and was struck by how quickly it has come on and how everything is suddenly in bloom. What…
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Continue reading →: Being featured in an online poetry journal, a poem I liked by Louis Simpson, and the daily writing prompt.
I submitted three poems to an online poetry blog and got accepted. If I’m lucky, they’ll include me in their printed quarterly come summer (they’ve already released the spring quarterly). You can see the website below, but I’ll link it again the day I’m featured. https://samanthaterrell.weebly.com/shine-poetry-series I am still waiting…
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Continue reading →: Bosch study, poetry and my imagination, the daily writing prompt, progress on my New Year’s resolutions, intentions for next week.
I have started my Bosch study. It‘s really relaxing and low stress. I basically just color the drawing in slowly. Four of the days this week I will do an abstract drawing, but the other three days I’ll work on this. I adore his work and am inspired by it…
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Continue reading →: Daily poem (Firework) and the daily drawing (slowly healing from maladaptive perfectionism).
I wrote a love poem today. The line that came to me yesterday was “Love is a sentry marching in repetition” so I scribbled that down and then this morning when I woke up, I wrote the rest of the poem. It shows a darker side to infatuation I think,…
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Continue reading →: Poem (Apologies), daily drawing, the daily writing prompt, and exercising again.
I wrote this poem about my father who passed away from cancer in 2017. It really felt cathartic to write it and it got out a lot of repressed anger I have towards him. Cancer has been on my mind a lot lately, not only because both my parents died…
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Continue reading →: A drawing (after a week’s break), poem (still untitled), the daily writing prompt, and my to-do-list.
The titles I’m throwing around for this poem, which is as done as it’s going to get, are At The Door and Diagnosis. It’s not my favorite, but I can’t work on it any further. Can’t write a winner every time, so I’m accepting this one as a bit of…
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Continue reading →: Poem (work in progress), Daily Writing Prompt (my “supernatural” experiences), and Coming Home.
I had too much anxiety around starting art today and didn’t do it. Even poetry came a little difficult today but once I got into it I was fine. I’m working on a poem that has had one version written already which I did yesterday. Today’s version is getting closer…
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Continue reading →: Book title, anatomy studies, a poem by Edward Field, flying home finally, and the daily writing prompt.
I have decided to call my book All The Birds Are Screaming. My friend who is illustrating is on board with that. It’s from yesterday’s poem and the line really stuck with me. I think it would make a catchy title. When I get home I am going to start…
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Continue reading →: Poem (Limbo), struggling in this gated community, and the daily writing prompt.
The oppressive stillness of this gated community I’m staying in is really getting to me. Birds have never sounded more ominous. They are the only sound. Yesterday a dog barked once and it echoed across the golf course creating many barks and then it was back to just the birds.…
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Continue reading →: Healing, gated communities, and the daily writing prompt.
Poetry has been healing me a day at a time. I had long since lost the ability to access my subconscious through visual art so it remained repressed and festering. Through poems, I am getting out the deepest, most primal parts of my brain. I have barely had any panic…
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The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman 