FOUR TENETS OF CREATIVITY
PERCEPTION
PARTURATION PUBLICATION PARTICIPATION
By Brian Strand
spontaneous
moments alight as thoughts
COPYRIGHT
All the poetry in this ebook are my copyright 2018
INTRODUCTION
This short eBook encompasses my
experiences of the creative in both art and poetry in particular.The content of
each of the four elements Perception, Parturation, Publication and
Participation are themselves expressed in a variety of poetic form .The cause
and effect of creativity .the impulse that creates inspiration, followed by the
parturition (berthing) of the image, idea, thought ,into an artform giving life
so to speak ,in words.
This primary purpose, the act of
creativity, which is more important than whether it is considered 'valuable '
or is subjectively 'good' in someone else's eyes.
Then proceeding on its secondary
reason, complementary and (thus a further bonus )is the the
'communion' thereof , 'the icing on the cake ' ,via first publication, and then
record ,and to its fulfilment ,as another 'reads' or sees that images,idea or
thought that once resided within me, its participation with another
person. The unique 'as is momen',of communion created.
PERCEPTION
Shafts
of light
pierce the gloom-
inspiration speaks
Those
pictures
in the mind-
paint my private
space.
A
well
within-
images,
pictures in the mind,
dreams and visions and things not known.
impressionistic inspiration
in visualised expressions
rivers,rivers stream my mind
spring forth images,to find
Within the soul of my
experience
Unconscious seeds of
tomorrow's joy,
Awaiting the warmth of
encouragement
Lay dormant,seeking
inspiration's light;
Words,verbs,adjectives,aimless,without
form,
Times,past,times
present,amalgams of verse
Unshaped,until imagination's
birth,
Bursts from the spring of my
maturity.
awake,arise ideas and fly
free
on imagination's unfettered
wings,
blown to and forth,and
settle where you will;
Ignite inspiration's
delight,tonight
Come..
fly with me
beyond,beyond
imagination;
Capture..
emotion's
aurora in your
firmanent;
Watch..
images descend
as crystallised
inspiration;
Bathe..
in a tide
of surreal
tranquility;
Paint..
what you see
with fine words
of poetry.
the
vivid images
in a painter's eye
transformed,
splash
upon canvas-
the
nouns,adjectives
memorable verbs
from
poetic ears
writ large,then
sweet voices,heard
An image
alights
as a butterfly
in Spring
A thought
arrives
as inspiration
on the wing
An idea
resides
to crystallize
and bring
image
thought
together
as one
inspiration
makes its
own pace
decides
the form
rhythm
pause
rhyme
design
bubbles
from
its spring
seemingly
inexhaustible
The music
of silence
calms
my mind
my
thoughts
trickle-down
bubbling
over
the rocks
of experience
Waves
of imagination
surface
and
jostle
one
with
the other
like
children
at play
shouting
for attention
for life
on my
page
Ideas with nowhere to hide
buried deep within long
forgotten dreams
indistinct ,then becoming
clear
words & pictures coming
near-
like petals on a stream;
A fragrance that lingers
within
a passage of light to my
soul,
inspiration to make me
whole.
From this confusion, the
mosaic of
ideas harmonizes,delineated
and
etched as a pattern of
thought, a
ribbon of inspiration
settles as a verse.
From tumultuous discussions
within
images strive for life as a
new-born
child wriggles from the
womb.First
an outline,then in
silhouette,each
unique line,a perceptible
signature,so
individual and more personal
than
a diary.This spontaneity
impetuously
releases the extrovert upon
this page,
squeezed out as rain in an
arid world.
Artistic inspiration writes
itself, as
I merely provide the pen
Mute and multiplied,thoughts
trained
and tamer,the subconscious
becomes
a workaday drama.A confusion
then
evolves into the particular
and floats
upon my page.
Simple symbols of self
expression
imagery in intuitive motifs,
a harmony of colour
..inspiration
of moods fused into metaphor
In the silence
I think,
day dream I suppose..
thoughts drift in
as images...
In this quiet I
am so alone ...
awaiting some inspiration.
One by one a word
appears ..unannounced..
As a chrysalis to a
butterfly
a poem to emerge..
from a mosaic of memories
to an inspiration surge
Inflections...
pauses....
silence.
The unwritten gaps...
the unsaid words..
with
graduated musical
phrases..
as strophes of
inspiration,berthed &
cadenced in our ear.
inspiration
awaits an
interlude
to flash
and sparkle,
an opportunity
for bravura
foreshadowed
in half-closed
eyes
an otherworldly
moment..
PARTURATION berthing the inpiration
simultaneous
visions,
mutli-layered
inspiration:
innovative
coherence
now
apparent,
broken
syntax
in
semantic
ambiguity...
unresolved
inspiration burns
turns a spark
from the tinder
of
imagination
into a flame..
a flame
that gathers up
experience
burnishes and
refines
a nugget of emotion
into an image, then
crystallize as a phrase
to become
a spoken
word,
a voice
from
the seeing eye
bursts of
creativity..
...short-lived....
colourful
caberets
exercises in
inspiration:
fearless
interaction
of parody and
sentiment..
in wordplay:
interspersed
crafting
of sensibilities
in compositions
....incarnate
A now moment,instantaneous,
parentage unknown,alive borne
of inspiration.Scattered here and there,
colours everywhere.The inner made
outer.Inherent originality conceived,
perceived,crystallised,the beneath
now in relief,of line,spot,point and
dab upon a canvas,to dry before the
eye.Succinct,complete of itself, never
to be reproduced it stays unique,of
me,for all to see.Of me,was once,this,
must art elsewhere,forever did depart.
I look upon it now,and wonder how!
PUBLICATION
In this digital age
Our
thoughts
bonded
together,
though ever apart
TWITTER
quick thoughts
cut short
POETRY SOUP
will test
the best
Pleasant people inhabit
this PS workshop of varied verse,
posting posies of many kind-
comments & opinions abound
in blogs ,of the world around-
sponsored contests in galore
brings creativity to the fore
my short poems on twitter
art ekphrasis on Flickr-
and blogs in this soup
other efforts in Sketchbook
so come now, take a quick look-
and keep in the loop
I think
so I paint,
I imagine and pen-
mix digitally together
as one
As a haiga
PARTICIPATION
Will my verse reach your ear
can your eye stay the course
listening,then writing my verse I awake ,
content until the next time,
the chords at my finger tips drift
back and forth into a song.
Take a deep
breath,exhale and
read between my lines
An image alights as a butterfly in spring,
a thought
arrives as inspiration on the wing.
An idea resides to crystallize and
brings each together as one.
Does convention confound
the rhythm of your eyes
Oh to avoid convention's game
make the image surreal upon my page.
a Stop,dear reader in your stride,
bring forth your imagination and join me on this
ride.this
in the realm
of the mind,
replete with thoughts
inspiration thrives,
discerns over spills,
to reveal
then configure
and emerge:
a fragrance
to dwell,stay
and perhaps
haunt another
ENDWORD
What intimacy is its cause,perhaps
an immaculate conception of words;
too swift to comprehend,see or
recognise.The moment is there
and then is not.Gone with the wind
the seed of idea remains, to
germinate and gestate,fanned by a
mental fragrance of elation.Slowly
self-transcending a word into a phrase,
a sentence to a strophe;a rhyme
rides a waterfall of cadence,
into a chasm of verse. Terse or
long, the sonnet becomes a little song,
struggles to arrive.Thrust forth upon
my page;a bastard-born of pain
MY POETIC BIO
Alliteration,the starting place, alongside
cinquains,apace in time,crystalline
lanterne and rhyme.Inspiration drew forth
footle,broken monoku for a while short
imagist was my style.Sequenced longer
poems metamorphose within this crysallis
changing into ekphrasis.Open,and free to be,
as you see,structured prose poetry.With
cadence and pause,others hear my voice
Open VERSE now this poet’s choice.
REFERENCE LINKS
Link to my artwork with imposed poetry
http://haiga-ichthys.blogspot.co.uk
Link to my recited poetry and thus my YouTube clips
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GiD8JdYi-jw&feature=youtu.be
Link to all my poetry forms on blogspot.com
https://www.blogger.com/profile/02166493604739619406
Link to my twitter short poetry anthology
https://mobile.twitter.com/strandpoet
Link to my complete poetry anthology
https://www.poetrysoup.com/member_area/my_poems.aspx