The lesson this week is really a very simple one. I would ask you to look deep inside yourself and connect with an emotion you are feeling intensely. Connect with that emotion. Is it a happy or sad, nostalgic, or hopeful, angry, or loving emotion? Latch on to that it and come up with a single word that best defines it (example: anger/thunder – sadness/raindrops – love/sunrise.}
Now, using your five senses: feel, taste, touch, smell, and hear, create images that create your feeling in the form of poetry. You can create as many images, for each of the senses as you like, and then, when you feel you have captured the feeling through sensory imagery, let us know the emotional image that your feeling inspires in you. “Sadness leaves my heart empty as a night sky without stars”
Example
SADNESS
Beyond the clouds
I know there is the light
of sun I see it shining
in my head but sour is
the taste of tears and loud
the echoing of years I fear
the bitter scent wafting decay
and seek to find a way to feel the
velvet softness of delight before
despair takes me in
to endless night
you’ve smashed my heart beneath
your faithless heel
and sadness is the only
thing my heart
remembers
how to feel – SAK (All rights reserved)