Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

02 January 2020

Poetry as a stimulus for scientists



This headline grabbed me today:

"Feeling stuck? Close your laptop, stop your field measurements and write a poem
Sam Illingworth explains how poetry can help to communicate and celebrate your science."

As a former scientist and a current writer struggling to find my voice, I found this thought intriguing.  To tap into the creativity of the right brain to answer questions of scientific intrigue and rigor rattling around in the left brain has always been of interest to me. But the thought of writing a poem to hone in on your scientific solutions was brilliant. 

Science is all about logic and fact and data --- loads of data. Poetry is about emotion, and painting pictures, and simplicity -- massive simplicity.

I love this! So I immediately wrote a Haiku. 

When science gets tough 
Strive to see the universe 
Uniquely in verse.

Did you get the double meaning? And I don't even have to name my poem. Now to find the answers to my scientific problems. What to do with all the plastic that sailors collect on beaches around the world. I need creative solutions and this may be the way. 


04 October 2015

Inspiration

I've had several sources of inspiration recently which have spurred a period of creativity like I have not experienced in some time. Three were book signings with readings -- one of a novel, one of a collection of short stories, and one of poetry.  In each case, the authors/speakers inspired me to feel rather than write again.

I have since written two short stories, two poems and one piece of flash fiction, as well as adding another 10,000 words to my novel, The Naked Truth -- all in the past week. My husband calls it verbal diarrhea. I call it inspiration. Whatever it is. I love it!

Bring it on.