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Ever feel as if a person is not listening to you? What might you try to get them to hear what you say? Why not become an instrument and speak to them through music. And if you were an instrument, what would you be? How would you play? For whom …

A girl became a stump became a leaf that fell come fall as leaves should do. As her report cards always said, She follows directions well. Directions became potato shoots, that know only to reach toward light. And light, she found it where she could, in poetry, cello strings, rooms …

More poems are written about love than any other subject. Death is, perhaps, second, followed by a big emotional bouquet: anger, despair, loneliness, greed, fear, lust, misunderstanding, gratitude. These are, after all, the most important things to write about. Notice that everything in the above list is abstract. You can’t …

Here’s a fabulous exercise for dealing with feeling out of control, given to me by Catherine O’Neil Thorne, of Art from Ashes. Give yourself less than 3 minutes to complete each of the first four steps. Try not to look ahead before completing the last step. Don’t get too caught …

For inspiration, I suggest reading Lost by David Wagoner (even Oprah likes it). When have you felt lost? Try to remember the details of what was around you. Write them down, just in list form. What did you hear? What did you smell? What did you see? And now focus …