Poet-Photographer

Tea at Hampton Court Gardens

I have been thinking about a post all day,

A Prescription for Poetry: How Writing Keeps Us Well 

by Joanna @ Confident Writing. 

Her post starts....

For the morning when to-do lists won't get done 

without some doodles, without some word plan

 and some play words, 

without some play worlds and some world play: 

I will write me a poem

For the moments when the world stops moving on its axis, 

when it stops for a moment, for just one precious moment 

when the sun glints on the water or the clouds 

drift past the mountains or the rains burst on the island 

and my feet sink home: 

I will write me a poem...

Continue here. 

The post is part of a Group Writing Project entitled Can Writing Keep us Well? Details are noted on her blog, Confident Writing.  Joanna also inspired me with a post entitled The Art of Paying Attention.  Within it she mentions her friend, a poet-photographer who has encouraged her to take less ordinary photographs and look for the extraordinariness in everyday things. I have to agree, when you look thru a camera lens at the simplest things, it is like you are seeing it for the first time. 

I like everything Joanna has to say, it just hits home. She talks about confident writing and finding your voice, taking responsibility for your words, trusting yourself, writing with positive intention and writing to read.  I know many bloggers are looking to get more from their writing and or photography. I thought you might find Joanna's words inspiring too. 

It is something to think about.

Jeanne xx