Feed your Inner Poet

Poetry is the muse of the soul. Yet, in our Western World, it holds less attraction for writers than genres that draw more income. Still, nourishing your inner poet can act as a wellspring to infuse your script with power and appeal. For example, read the following verses and feel their impact, then write whatever comes to mind as a test of their stimulation.

My life running to the seas

through heather, bracken and bad grass,

on its fanked eerie course,

like the mean and shallow stream

that was taking its meager way through a green patch

to the sea in the Kyle.

But again and again a spring tide came

to put beauty on the river foot,

to fill its destination with richness,

and sea-trout and white-bellied salmon came

to taste the water of the high hills

with flood-tide in Inver Eyre.

Sorley MacLean

Look on me! There is an order

Of mortals on the earth, who do become

Old in their youth, and die ere middle age,

Without the violence of warlike death;

Some perishing of pleasure – some of study –

Some worn with toil – some of mere weariness –

Some of disease – and some insanity –

And some of withered, or of broken hearts.

Lord Byron

These images stir the heart, causing thoughts to rise to the surface that may have remained comfortably settled in the dark. Explore your artistic side through poetry. You may harvest a plethora of inspiration.