Creativity

Waking to a good book
and caffiene

Is the ideal morning
for me,

Followed by creating
with yarn and words,

My work life
mingling with

Creativity, setting the
pace in my journey.

09/18/2019

Uncertainty

'Yes is a world',
was my mentor's sign-off

At the bottom
of her e-mails for years.

I looked forward to reading
her wisdom on writing,

Poetry, brainstorming
month after month.

I never thought
that uncertain times

Would invade
my peaceful space.

I never thought that I
would spend months, years

Away from my
writing sanctuary.

Some day soon I hope
to share my stories

With her, with our poetry
circle once again.


08/12/2019

Struggling

It creeps in once again,

that feeling of doubt,

No matter how much you write

or create,

Nothing I do will ever be

satisfactory. 

I struggle to push it down,

move on with my daily life,

Yet thoughts continue

to leak in and impede

My progress in writing,

creating, living.

05/24/2019

Book Garden

It has
been months since my
creativity sparked
into life, yet last night offered
a spark.

05/04/2019

Creating

I long
to restore my
yarn craft activity,
waiting for my hand to
be in its best condition to
create.

04/21/2019

Creativity

Looking

forward to new

opportunities, so

creativity continues

to grow.

04/15/2018

January 20, 2015

It certainly feels great to write in 'Weaving Poetic Threads' once again. I can't believe that I haven't posted here in 6 months! Many things have taken place in my life since that time, early in 2014 in fact. I wish I could say that they were positive things, yet the majority of the events were not. 2014 was certainly a very challenging year, and it forced me to confront things about myself in a monumental way. These past few months have caused me re re-evaluate my goals in life. Despite the struggles, I am eternally grateful for my family, my wonderful boyfriend, my dear friends in my poetry therapy community, and close friendships I've maintained through the years.

I made a promise to myself to strengthen my creative spark in 2015! I'm hard at work in writing my second poetry book, which (hopefully) should be ready this summer. I'm also planning on restarting my poetry therapy group! It will be in New Jersey, and the location needs to be worked out. Running a poetry therapy group brought me much joy when I lived in New York, and I can't wait to have that experience once again.

I hope everyone is enjoying their week! I look forward to sharing more poetry with you soon.


--Cathleen
01/20.2015

My first book, 'A Blossoming Journey', is available here:
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