Poetry in Motion

Stand up straight
Knotted base

Limbs twisted

Fighting each other

Ever reaching

For the perfection of the heavens

The freedom of space

Always eluding your arms entangled 

a quiet blue perfection

written by:

Casey Lloyd

Some of you may know that when I was younger I used to write all the time.  I would have a notebook with me at all times, sometimes several.  I remember going through a phase where I had different notebooks and journals for different subject matter. I was somewhat obsessed with getting the ideas that were in my head down on paper. (I guess as much as things change, some things still stay the same.)  I have written thousands of poems and always found it to be something that brought me peace as well as helping me to process the experiences I have endured.  Maybe I am using this blog in a similar way.

As I began to raise my family at some point I stopped writing, I am sure it had to do with the chaos of having young children in the house as well as various health issues leaving me creatively blocked.  I would try to sit down and express myself, but most times nothing would come to me.  It was one of things I always felt I was pretty good at so when I was no longer able to do it I felt as if I lost a piece of myself.

 As I have worked at eating healthier and making better decisions for myself I have noticed a brain fog lifting.  I have started to want to do more, to experience more, to feel I am living a full life.  I have also started writing again.  I am not only working on this blog I am writing in notebooks again, which is deeply exciting to me.  I am having ideas and feelings that I am able to put into poetic form again. 

I am finding I like to write with the pictures I take on my walks.  I gave you guys an example up above.  It is fitting to me that I have been a bit enthralled by nature lately because as I was growing up I was obsessed with Emily Dickinson but never wrote much about nature myself.  Writing about nature seems to make me feel connection with my youth.

I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weather.

Feel free to leave the name of your favorite poem and author in the comments so I can check it out...or better yet write your own bit of poetry if you feel like it!