Poetry inspires us by getting to the heart of it all.  Suddenly we see things in a different light, we think and feel in a new way and then become renewed ourselves.  We all need constant inspriation in our work, as a way of connecting with ourselves as well as an alternative to the constant busy “doing.”

As it is National Poetry Day today I am publishing a poem.  Having recently read it in a blogging workshop I feel more encouraged to let it see the light of day!

To my creative self

I thought at first that you liked things Done Properly

You know, new notebook, Time to Do It,

Focus, Discipline, and bingo, Results.

But I knew that wasn’t me so I tried to outwit

you, disarm you, prove I was right.

a poem on the back of a bus ticket

in a scruffy diary, while I was walking

painting my bedroom wall, travelling somewhere,

drawing in the margin of my work life.

And all the time you were just with me,

Wherever I was.

And now I have acknowledged you

Given you proof of your existence

Enjoyed the flash of recognition between us

The matching of equals

Now I feel your stubborn ness.

You’re not going anywhere.

It doesn’t matter how I do it

You won’t be shaken off

You are holding me fiercely

But that’s not enough for you

You need more

You want us to be together side by side

Step by step.

I don’t yet know how to be a partner

With you

my creative self.

© Jean Wolfe

January 2003

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