Muse – Reena’s Xploration, Thursday Doors Writing Challenge

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Image credit: Kerfe – memadtwo

The creative Muse

merges imagination to its cosmos—

adorned thoughts windows and doors —

freeing the self to journey to its aura

and return to weave the wonders

it has found there.

For:

Dan Antion’s Thursday Doors Annual Writing Challenge #TDWC. Image credit: Kerfe– memadtwo.

Reena’s Xploration #382 where this week’s prompt is the theme of solace in the sense of being alone to create (writing, art, creative works, meditation) and shedding the vestiges of self as noted in the last line of Reena’s prompt quote from Stephen Batchelor:

“To be alone at your desk or in your studio is not enough. You have to free yourself from the phantoms and inner critics who pursue you wherever you go. “When you start working,” said the composer John Cage, “everybody is in your studio — the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas — all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.” —Credit: Stephen Batchelor on Marginalian

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39 thoughts on “Muse – Reena’s Xploration, Thursday Doors Writing Challenge”

  7. The image is so densely packed—it almost makes me itchy, like I’m breaking into hives trying to separate the parts.
    But perhaps that’s where the brilliance of the photographer lies: in challenging us to let go, to release the need to grasp every piece… to simply leave the parts behind and let them be.

    What I truly admire is how the poet honours the photographer—with such grace and deep admiration.
    They merge imagination with the cosmos, and speak with a lovely wisdom,
    Holding trust in the photographer’s vision,
    And belief in their ability to weave wonder from chaos.
    It’s a beautiful testament to the power of photography —and the patience it takes to see it fully.

    Brilliantly illustrated
    and so
    Beautifully written.

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    1. To weave wonder…” I love your insight and perspective on the image and the poem’s attempt to dialog with the photos as a form of imagination illustrated [from the photographer’s view point].

      Your sentiments on letting go of “understanding every bit of something/situation/event” is great wisdom. For, how can one know everything. Perhaps that space of unknowing is perhaps where in the mind’s eye nuances of understanding, takes new forms (creative impetus), enlightens feelings and emotions to grasp greater meaning beyond ourselves.

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      1. I really love the insight you offer—seeing the spaces of unknowing not as voids, but as the very spark of creativity.
        It truly does take courage to breathe in those uncertain spaces, and even more to let that breath carry you on a journey of discovery and light.
        And then, the joy—oh, the joy—of returning, with something to tell.

        Photographer and Poet teaching us so much. Thank you.

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  9. Suzette, this is a great poem exploring the creative process and the relationship between the artist’s imagination and the inner world. Love the backstory.

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  12. Thank you, Suzette, for posting these insights. We all need to think about the self and its “journey,” as you put it, and its return to “weave.” I especially loved the wisdom in “if you’re lucky,” even the self leaves us to do our writing/painting/drawing/sculpting/whatever. Your interpretation of Kerfe’s collage is very thought-provoking.

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    1. So glad you found good purchase in the sentiments of this share Maureen. I really enjoyed too the wisdom and moments for pondering offered in the prompt quote.. “if you’re lucky.”

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