{"id":6739,"date":"2017-08-17T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2017-08-17T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:51:54","slug":"finding-magic-in-the-mundane-prompt-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/finding-magic-in-the-mundane-prompt-328\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Magic in the Mundane . . . Prompt #328"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s writing prompt and title for this post is inspired by Suzanne Murray.<\/h4>\n

\u201cI have many favorite poets but, the Nobel prize winning Chilean poet,\u00a0Pablo Neruda tops the list in his elegant celebration of common things. These\u00a0poems help me\u00a0find\u00a0beauty and wonder in the everyday and give\u00a0me a fresh perspective in the face of the difficulties in the world.<\/p>\n

Early in his writing life wrote serious political poems . . . \u00a0One line from his poem I’m Explaining a Few Things <\/em>written in 1935 during the Spanish Civil War has long stayed with me capturing the intensity of Neruda’s work, …and the blood of children ran through the streets\/without fuss, like children’s blood…<\/em><\/p>\n

Later in his life, as if weary of the burden of protesting atrocities and political corruption, he began to write Odes about everyday things: salt, cat, dog, dictionary, tomato, to name a few. His Odes celebrate the ordinary in an extraordinary way. I have a hard bound collection of Odes to Common Things<\/em> . . . \u00a0I cherish this book because, beyond the fact that the poems are an exquisite, playful honoring of the everyday, those things we take for granted, the things we no longer really see; they remind us to pay attention and look at common things with new eyes and imagination.<\/p>\n

You could do this too in whatever form your creativity takes. Play with it and see if it doesn’t brighten and expand your world. Consider using poetry as your inspiration, fuel for your creative spirit and to uplift and lighten your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Writing Prompt, suggested by Marlene:\u00a0 Look up . . .\u00a0 write about the first thing you see.<\/h5>\n
Or:\u00a0 Write about something on your kitchen table, or coffee table, or on your desk, or on the wall.\u00a0 Choose an everyday thing and Just Write.<\/h5>\n

“Celebrating Common Things Through Creativity<\/a>,” by Suzanne Murray. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Suzanne Murray<\/a> is a gifted creativity and writing coach, soul-based life coach, writer, poet, EFT practitioner and intuitive healer committed to empowering others\u00a0to find the freedom to ignite their creative fire, unleash their imagination and engage their creative expression in every area of their lives.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s writing prompt and title for this post is inspired by Suzanne Murray. \u201cI have many favorite poets but, the Nobel prize winning Chilean poet,\u00a0Pablo Neruda tops the list in his elegant celebration of common things. These\u00a0poems help me\u00a0find\u00a0beauty and wonder in the everyday and give\u00a0me a fresh perspective in the face of the difficulties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[161,6,105,160,342,10,11],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-creativity-goes-wild","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-suzanne-murray","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1KH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6745,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions\/6745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}