Tag: creativity
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Creativity and Mental Health: How to Accept and Embrace Your Creative Mind
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Having a Creative Personality vs Being A Creative Person When you have a creative nature, you’re different from a creative-minded person, someone who seeks creative pursuits, and even different from someone who has a highly creative brain. Some people may seek ways to incorporate creative thinking into their lives or become more artistic, but when…
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Poem about the Power of Words and Poetry
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Words are a Holy FireWords surged from the penstaining, soaking everything like spilled paint.Wood pulp thirsty in a stateof mad-eyed hunger.Paper ravenous for a glorious taste,elated to gobble up and digestthe things that time can’t erase.Don’t you know?Words are a Holy Fire,spread from the Word himself.Infused with the power of desireto transform, to turn over…
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Climbing Mountains Poem About Living Out Your Dreams
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Climbing Mountains A Poem About Living Out Your Dreams and Believing in Yourself The road rose in the distance insistent on wrapping around the towering mountain like twine. At its feet stood a shrine dedicated to the drowsy dreamer, the tired thinker, the sleepy schemer who had journeyed all this way only to have disbelief…
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Planting is a Prayer Poem
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Planting is a prayer. If you do it right. If you’re aware you’ve been given oversight in a chapter of a story that’s been continually expanding since the Word first spoke to the void
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Poem About Art Life and Vulnerability
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Pure Art Pure art is fragile, stitched together and held by our dreams, joys, and struggles. It is not perfect for life is not perfect and the truest art reflects life as it is – imperfect, messy, yet full of possibility. It is the imperfection that speaks to our imperfect hearts, assuring us that we…
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The Tortured Artist – A Poem
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The Tortured Artist by Justin Farley Utterly bound by the need for discovery, yet plagued by the awareness that finding leaves me no farther along my journey in the eyes of the world. The most tortured artist is the realist who’s aware he’s playing the fool, but must play his role regardless, knowing it’s the…
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Poem About Broken Dreams – “Dream-Weaving”
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Dream-Weaving – A Poem The seams of my dreams are unraveling –Thread stretched out in heaps,Ensnaring my feet, tripping me, sending me fallingInto jaded existence.Innocence, where is my resistance to your demise? This cloak once kept me warm in the night,but is now tattered, holes allow the howling windTo chill the depths of my soul.No…
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Poem about the Writing Process – “Inkblood”
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Inkblood – A Poem about the Writing Process Beneath a pale, July moonAn ancient manuscript sitsIlluminated by candlelight,Its pages gently rustling in the breezeBlowing behind the curtains of the nearby window. The ink is faded beneathLayers of time and age,But the wisdom remainsScribbled in rhymes,Written eons ago by some old sage. But tonight it’s voice…
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The Secret Power – A Poem
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Do you want to know a secret? One with the power to completely change your life this very second? Well, lean closer then. I’ll have to whisper it in your ear. We can’t have the whole world knowing the truth. Brace yourself. MAGIC IS REAL. We each possess forces we can’t begin to understand –…
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