Using Nothing

Five days of poetry following Kathryn Appel, author and educator Queensland, Australia, through the #PoetryPepUp prompts. Trying all different forms to 'build muscle in creativity'. Sharing on Twitter and Instagram and through an informal research presentation in Charles Darwin University. I used this poetry to delve into 'nothingness', using nothing and how poetry can be an emergent writing form.

Using Nothing from Wendy Taleo

Notes:

For Day 1 the form was: Zentangle and Blackout poetry

I had never combined these two techniques together. The zentangle allowed me to to incorporate direction for the reader.
1. Study the Ants
2. The Basics of Music

For Day 2 the Forms suggested an Epigram and a Solange

From hats to hates

Mats to mates

The 'e' has many traits.
Read on Twitter

Quiet night

Extroverts plight

Silence.

The above poem emerged from these drafts with feedback from Kathryn:

A blissful quiet 

The introverts plight 

Silence.
    and

A blissful quiet night 

in - the extroverts plight 

Silence.

Day 3

Form: Tetractys

I took the challenge option for a homophone double tetractys.

Knots can hold our hope, can confuse us, can show our entanglements, can make us spend time to get them undone, can be misunderstood, need a single thread to start can fill gaps and be beautiful.

Knots -

life rope

show patterns,

collect our hope,

reveal entanglements with fractal gaps.

Unknowable songs create endless loops 

binding my heart

made up of

silver threads

there, but

not.

'Nots' are the things in life to NOT do, to leave undone, they work better when left alone, things culturally not appropriate, out of context, unknown or subconscious.

Day 4 

Prompt: Use a picture and write in any form

Haiku Trio to track the day
1 Morning
2 10am
3 Ash

Day 5

Prompt: Golden Shovels

Unknown, mysterious and never silent ~

the neighbors tree.

The leaves let

in dappled light holes for me

to fall through and see

hope steeped in your

backyard of answers.

Extract from poem titled: ?

by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

Available at: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/noonuccal-oodgeroo/poems/-0719044/ 

Silent Tree

Let me see

Your answers

Poetry prompts from Kathryn Appel

https://katswhiskers.wordpress.com/poetry-pep-up/

Presented at Charles Darwin University "Using Nothing", June 2020.