FIRE PLACE
What trembling hands first lit startled shouting
Red hot joy of a million lights
Who? How?
Center Boundless
Cold Stones gathered
with clay softened hands
arrangements of the concentric shape
birthing from the Ground
Moist beads of salty sweat in the hair
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Initially wrote this one for a songwriting class held at Berklee in Feb 2012.. It is an objective writing exercise. The word given by Pat was “FIREPLACE”. This is sense based writing in which You basically look for words that describe sight, sound, touch, taste, movement, internal feeling and so on etc When you write like this You let your mind riff wherever it goes..
If you’ve read writing without boundaries or have taken a class with Pat Pattison you know what I’m doing. (objective sense based writing)
If not..and your interested in improving your own writing, you might be interested in checking out the book. (Writing Without Boundaries- Pat Pattison)
WELCOME!
