C is for Compose Walking Poems
What you Need:- Yourself.
- A recorder and cameras that can be found on a smartphone.
- The app, Videolicious (You can see a demo movie I made at the bottom of the blog).
- A walk.
Method
- Take yourself out for the day with your smart phone in hand.
- Deeply notice as you walk.
- Make images of what catches your eye, your ear. Be spontaneous. Playful.
- Take a moment to notice what you have captured on your phone and think about how these disparate images and noticings might come together.
- Make a 30-second poem that you videotape yourself reading based on your wandering. I use the Videolicious app for this.
- Asssemble all of it using Videolicious or another app of your choice (Animoto, etc.)
- Upload and share.
A Walk
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
Translated by Robert Bly
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
Translated by Robert Bly
Note: In this series of post during the month of April, I am participating in the A to Z blogging challenge, with each day focusing on a letter. In order to bring some cohesion to this process--releasing the imagination is the focus of each post.
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