Expression: Share

Musing…

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” -- 
Emile Zola

There’s a lot of hype about sharing these days. With social media, we share easily, quickly, what is important, what crosses our minds, pictures of our lives, a documentation of sorts. Pieces of a story puzzle. It might not be anything extraordinary – doesn’t matter, seems that what matters is to share, to express something and ask to be heard, seen. 

Charise’s Turn:

I have been writing poems quietly, privately, for decades. When I returned to my high school for the first time in twenty years for a reunion, my former English teacher asked, “are you still writing poems?” She remembered how much I love words and phrases and meaning, and how I submitted an autobiographical poem for my college application essay. 

I gave my first public poetry reading April 9 as part of an arts program for veterans and family members. I said I’d do it before I had the poem -- part of an urge to get the voice of a military spouse out there. To ask to be heard, seen. Sometimes you just say “yes” before you’re ready and then you get ready through your own conviction. Turns out I was the only military spouse at the microphone, and so my "yes" made even more sense to me. With live music accompaniment I read what I had written for the occasion, "Countdown from Deployment". The applause was loud, warm, affirming, even though most everyone there had no idea who I was. A professor in the audience asked me to send her my poem so she could read it to her graduate students at Lesley University. The sharing goes on...

Get Fired Up:   

What creative stirring within you wants to be shared out loud? How long will you wait or wonder? 

Listen to your stirring and give it expression. 

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