{"id":60160,"date":"2017-03-20T02:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=60160"},"modified":"2017-04-01T18:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:12:26","slug":"enters-brains-back-door-make-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2017\/03\/20\/enters-brains-back-door-make-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"This Enters Through the Brain’s Back Door To Make You More Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our reason for mixing poetry into articles about very practical things is done with fierce intention: Poetry enters through our brain’s back door and shakes things up. We find that it helps greatly in envisioning possibilities by working in\u00a0other l<\/em>ess linear languages, helping us make unexpected connections, as well as making us attuned to our surroundings.<\/p>\n It’s why for every morning for the last five years we’ve spent a few minutes\u00a0on the phone with a dear friend, while he reads us a poem or we read him one, since he first told us that of his unique, simple practice<\/a>. It starts our brains off with a way wider view than checking our cell-phones offers. Like this astonishing poem about poetry by Rilke:<\/p>\n Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n interchange of our own<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n essence with world-space. You counterweight<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n in which I rhythmically happen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Single wave-motion whose<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n gradual sea I am:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n you, most inclusive of all our possible seas-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n space has grown warm.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n How many regions in space have already been<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n inside me. There are winds that seem like<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n my wandering son.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Do you recognize me, air, full of places I once absorbed?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n You who were the smooth bark,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n roundness, and leaf of my words.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n We’re so taken with poetry, that\u00a0we use\u00a0it for gentle guerrilla actions (which it is, unto itself). Here are some favorites:<\/p>\n Poem in your Pocket<\/strong>: Select a poem you love, carry it with you, then share it with family, friends, coworkers, random people you pass. If you have time or energy, you can print out copies to give to people you meet or leave on park benches, bank or post office desks, bus seats…<\/p>\n\n