Are you searching for a more poetic life? A quiz
Try this quiz to test the strength of your yearning for a more poetic life! or just for fun
(1) Do you have something you love doing, that you never have enough time for, that you lose yourself in, that is not your day job?
- for me, it was painting. For you, it could be anything from flower arranging to song-writing to stained glass making to sculpting to wine-tasting to bee-keepingto poetry to …
Let’s call it your passion. Actually, let’s call it your ‘poetic passion’ – because it does not belong to the prosaic work-filled side of the life that you have created for yourself in the world but to its more poetic side. Our ‘poetic life’ is that part of our daily existence where we spend time with the quiet delights of the senses, looking, listening, paying attention, noticing the specific and finding beauty. Drinking it in. And then, when we’ve quenched our poetic thirst, maybe also creating, making, producing and sharing the results with the world.
that part of our daily existence where we spend time with the quiet delights of the senses, looking, listening, paying attention, noticing the specific and finding beauty…
(2) Do you have a poetic passion-shaped hole in your life but don’t yet know what would fill it?
(3) Do you have a dream of one day spending more time on your poetic passion on but currently restrict yourself to weekends and holidays?
(4) Are you keeping some part of your poetic passion under the bed that you can’t bear to throw away but don’t have time to attend to?
- literally, that might be a pile of paintings, old journals, an instrument you once played … figuratively , it might be in the loft, a cupboard, in your mind
(5) Do you feel guilty being dissatisfied with a life that other people might envy?
(6) Did you have a poetic passion in your past that you miss?
- maybe you once went to art school or sang joyfully in a choir or loved running or took gymnastics or ballet classes or played in a group. Perhaps you have precious memories of spending time bird-watching with your father or making up stories for the neighbour’s baby or reading on the beach. Any of these can be hints as to what might be missing.
(7) Are you a ‘shadow artist’?
- that’s Julia Cameron’s phrase for people who love an arts field but rather than doing it themselves help others to do it – by teaching it, volunteering in galleries or theatres or historic houses, visiting open studios and gardens, …
(8) Do you keep taking courses and classes relating to your poetic passion without taking flight on your own?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you belong here!
The more Yes-es the stronger your yearning for a more poetic life.
I want this blog and my courses to support people who are in search of a more satisfying, richer life and who have an inkling (or more than an inkling) of the poetic passion they want to add into their life.