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HALFLIFE: Improvisations & Interviews, by Charles Wright (1989)

Poetry is the dark beast with its mouth open, and you’ve got to walk down that tongue and into the windy mouth. And you’ve got to sing while you walk. — Charles Wright

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HOMESICKNESS

homesickness

Hiraeth /hɪəraɪ̯θ/ is a Welsh word that has no direct English translation. An attempt to define it : homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an earnest desire for the Wales of the past.

Saudade is a Portuguese or Galician word that has no direct translation in English. It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing may never return. A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover, or a family member who has gone missing.

Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (e.g., one's children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends, pets) or something (e.g., places, things one used to do in childhood, or other activities performed in the past) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. It brings sad and happy feelings all together, sadness for missing and happiness for having experienced the feeling.

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The sky was split into two halves

The field was split into two halves by the sunlight; one half was bright and the other half was in shade. And then, the shade pushed towards the light side until there was only a little bit light around the rim, and eventually the field slowly cooled down. Two squirrels were nodding their heads and wondered around the field; their eyes were bright, like two candles that that could not be extinguished.......... at least they were there. What was more, they travelled in a pair, holding each other in arms. A star was rotating its orbit..............

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Descriptive Activity with movement & speaking.

Describe in writing a nearby object or place along with your mental landscape while describing it: any association, memory, image, comment (seemingly relevant or irrevelant). This is a document of your mental landscape, with no attempt to be interesting, poetic, clever, clever, funny or dramatic. Use full sentences or sentence fragments, i.e. not a list of words. Then either:

1) Move starting with any texture, quality, or image that came up in the description, allowing the movement to develop & change in whatever way it's going.

2) Speak the words you've written, feeling free to repeat sentences, words, phrases, or the whole thing. Let your once slide in pitch, volume, & speed.

Continue what you're doing with an awareness of being in the context of the whole moving sounding picture.

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