Another Point of View: Strange Gods

Another Point of View: Strange Gods

We each have our own ideas of what God is or is not like. If you look at cultures around the world and across the stretch of time the ideas of God have even more variety.

Cultures have a variety of ideas of where Gods reside, how the world was made, the role of humanity and what comes after death. There have been angry gods, loving gods, demanding gods, gentle gods, impersonal distant gods.  For some there is no god only the endless universe with all its mysteries.

So for this challenge,  put yourself in the place of someone whose concept of God and/or how the world works is different from yours.  See the world through this person's eyes. Describe something in the environment or have a conversation with this other God or with a representative of God like a saint or prophet.

You might choose to do this through the eyes of an ancient Mayan or Egyptian; a devout Catholic, Jew or Muslim; someone who believes that gods reside in the stones and trees.  Or you might try something from the point of view of someone who yearns to believe.

Go where ever this takes you and post something below with Mr. Linky even if it took you someplace that hardly seems related!  I look forward to what you come up with.

Have fun with this one and I hope my photo does not offend anyone. This fellow is a temple guardian in China.

Peggy Goetz

Blogging at   ON A DAY LIKE TODAY

Connections

Connections

Connections

We all make them or  strive for them. With people in our daily life. With other poets. In the words of our poems. I know connections are very important to me. I work hard to achieve them in all that I do.

Here are a few quotes I really like about connections, and I hope you will like them also:

William Plomer -- "It is the power of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms--the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

George J. Seidel -- "The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in an odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline."

Jacob Bronowski -- "A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before."

Leonardo Da Vinci --  "To develop a complete mind, study the science of art, study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

So, for your challenge today, I would like you to write a new poem, a poem about connections. So much in life is connected, if we think about it. Take your time. Sometimes connections cannot be rushed.

If your muse needs a bit more inspiration (as mine does oftentimes), here are some thoughts in regard to connections:

1. Think about William Plomer's quote above. Write a poem showing the connection between two things or people or ideas that are very different from one another. How about the connection between love and pizza? A river and the moon? A dream and a new puppy?  Etc.?

2. Think of opposites. What is the connection between happy and sad, rich and poor, asleep and awake, comfort and discomfort, lazy and ambitous, etc? Let these connections inspire you to think of your own.

3. Poetry itself is a connector.At least I find it so.  Do you?   In what way? Connector with who? Importance of?

4. Write about the connection between people (specific or general) or the lack of such connection....and what it means..

These are just a few ideas. One thing is certain, and that is I look forward to connecting with many of you this week! In fact, I am very excited about the opportunity of visiting each of your blogs!   Post the link to your poem using Mr. Linky below, and don't forget to visit the poems of your fellow bloggers.  We all enjoy visits.  Come back once in a while and see who is new.  And if you post after others, visit a number of those who posted before you.

Mary who 'lives' and blogs at In the Corner of My Eye.

So How Do You Feel?

So How Do You Feel?

Emotions are not tangible things that we can touch or see or hear. They exist in the living mind.

However emotions can be described very effectively in tangible ways.

Choose an emotion like fear, sadness, hope, love, hate, despair or what ever. Or use something else intangible like freedom, liberty, courage.

Now assign to that emotion a strong tangible descriptor, perhaps a color, a texture, shape, a sound, something that can be heard, seen, felted or tasted.

Start your poem with a simple line or use it as your title: Something like "Fear is purple"

You can actually do this any way you want to but I thought I would give you a way to start at least thinking about describing an emotion in a tangible way.

After you post your link with Mr. Linky below,  be sure to comment on the blogs of the other poets who put up their links.

Peggy
Blogging at:  ON A DAY LIKE TODAY

Inner and Outer Limits

Inner and Outer Limits

There are many kinds of limits--physical limits, time limits, behavioral limits, society's limits, mental limits, emotional limits.  I recently wrote a poem about the very big and the very small and it made me think of how many other kinds of limits there are.

Give some thought to the outer or inner limits of your life or for some character you want to write about.  Are there truly any limits? What limits do we impose on ourselves?

Describe them, tell us what they do, who they benefit, who they hurt, where they are, how they make people feel.

Consider not only the fact of limits, but the harder question perhaps of the why of limits.

Just let you imagination run with this.  I look forward to seeing what you write.  Post your efforts on your blog and link below with Mr. Linky. And post a comment as well.  We hope that you will write a new piece rather than linking one from the past.  It is more fun that way.  Also, be sure to visit others who post, checking back periodically during the week, as we all enjoy comments on our poetry.


Peggy Goetz
Blogging at: ON A DAY LIKE TODAY