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A little creativity exercise for this mid-week, mid-February day —
and a reminder that you, too, are creative. You, too, are poetic and artistic. Something happens as we grow up in which the impulse to pick up a pen and doodle is trivialized out of us. So take a minute to make space for a little color. We’re meant to use the entire box of crayons we’re given, you know?
Here’s my prompt: use one of the palettes Pantone has created around its color of the year (mocha mousse) to generate some improvisational poetry.
Jot down the first few words that spring to mind when you take in each color and its name —
I did this just this morning. A few of my responses:
Tendril — delicate April, all second growth
Cornflower — the heavy hang of late August
Viola — archly drawn and delicately played
Cobblestone — the click clack of things leaving and lost
Willow — slowly, we remembered
I could use any of these to start a new essay, musing, rivulet of creative non-fiction. Feel free to share some of your own improvisational poetry in the comments, or just use to get the creative juices flowing this morning.
Onward —
Post-Scripts.
+Advice for disillusioned writers.
+Three cleansing exercises for the new year.
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Ah, Jen, tendril is one of my favourite words! Maybe because it evokes so much — a trilling sound, an unbridled thing, all different kinds of plants ripe with life…
And, in the same vein of this prompt, I just opened a box of perfume samples from the English house Miller Harris and their boxes are colour-coded by scent and covered with poetry! Such an enormous swoon! As my husband said to me, “Are you happy with that, my lover of Pantone?” xx