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Exercise 2: Discovering Your Roots
Music can help evoke your feelings at the roots.
Listen to a variety of musical pieces and styles as you explore and write about the range of your feelings. What images arise for you in listening? Let your response to the music guide your images and words. Trust as you listen what reveals itself to you through the music. Settle into the sounds and rhythm and flow with them.
 Don't write for a while. "Get into flow", as a very wise artist and teacher of mine suggests. What does the music invite in you? Is it only your sense of sound that is being stimulated or is other senses awakened as the music flows into and through you?
If you could be an instrument, what would you be? Does the music transport you to a different place or time? What kind of landscape and season is within or around you? What elements and emotions are felt?
Please choose music you would like to experiment with, here is a list of music to inspire you:
- Bach: Concerto in F, for oboe, strings and continuo
- John Rainer: Songs of the Native Indian Flute
- Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata
- Coltrane: A Love Supreme
- Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending
- Kelly Yost: Piano Reflections
- Jacqueline DePré: Dvorák Cello Concerto
- The Beatles, B.B. King, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Jim Brickman, Sarah McLaughlin, Aretha Franklin, Diana Krall, Ravi Shankar and many others
Once you've finished your writing, consider singing your poem out loud in the shower tomorrow morning! It could be sweet music to your ears.
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Do not commit your poems
to pages alone. Sing them,
I pray you.
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Adapted from Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making
The Institute for Poetic Medicine would enjoy reading and hearing the poem you just wrote. If you would like to share it with our on-line community, please feel free to email it along with your name to: poem poeticmedicine.org.
Now try Exercise 3 - Prayer Poems
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