Wordsworth- positive psychology genius
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008There’s something ironic about the way scientists are now proving that being in nature calms your brain-waves and deliberately recalling happy memories induces a state of inner peace: these are wellbeing strategies that used to be well known in other areas of life before positive psychology was invented (religion, literature, art). Last night I was [...]
on poetry
Friday, October 24th, 2008I often have a strange desire to Rehabilitate Poetry, in my own world as well as the bigger one (or some corner of it). Read what you will into the mental health aspects of that; as Graves said, poetry is an attitude, not a group of words arranged just so on a page, signed, published [...]
Welsh poets talk about how to write poems
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008I was checking out what’s to see in South Wales, and started reading about Merthyr Tydfil, and discovered a poet I had (embarrassingly) never heard of, Leslie Norris, who was born there. Here is an interview where he describes the way he writes poems:
… he waits for the poem to come, like the flu. “If [...]
ee cummings poem of the day
Monday, June 9th, 2008if i love You
(thickness means
worlds inhabited by roamingly
stern bright faeries
if you love
me) distance is mind carefully
luminous with innumerable gnomes
Of complete dream
if we love each (shyly)
other, what clouds do or Silently
Flowers resembles beauty
less than our breathing
some favourite poems
Friday, February 15th, 2008I do feel this blog has been a bit below the usual magnificent standards lately. My reason excuse for that is, total absorbtion in the new Mystery Project*, including wondering how to adapt it to my internetworld. Being of prehistoric Early Gen-X age, I am very easily stumped when it comes to knowing what to [...]
