Wild Heart Dancing Poetry

[ducky]

This is one of the exercises from Elliot Sobel's book Wild Heart Dancing. Take a piece of paper and tear it into 10 pieces. Write a word on each piece of paper that speaks to you. Toss them in a bowl and randomly pull out one at a time and lay them down in the order you pull them. Arrange them in order, how ever many words you want in a line, to form a poem. Write it down and do it two more times so that you have three stanzas.

My words were sparkle, dance, laughter, rain, purple, sky,love, river, touch, scattered. My poem -

river rain laughter
sky sparkle touch
dance scattered
purple love

sky dance
love purple rain
touch scattered laughter
river sparkle

scattered purple
touch rain
love river laughter
sky dance sparkle

[bluecrayon]

my words were: blue brown love lonely ephemeral lick smile there dance be....

lonely brown love...
this blue ephemeral dance
smile
lick
be



be lonely, love
blue smile dance
ephemeral brown lick...
be.


ephemeral love
blue lick dance
this lonely smile
be brown.

[Aliisza]

Cool idea! Here's mine:

Storm Goddess heart
sparkle myth alive
enchanted ice petal
wonder.

Myth heart sparkle
alive petal
enchanted wonder
Goddess ice storm.

Ice petal myth
sparkle enchanted Goddess
storm heart alive
wonder.

[roane]

words: love, high, boy, black, think, code, smile, leaving, bloody, own.

code bloody
own leaving love
smile high
black
think, boy.

love smile
code boy
high
black think bloody
leaving own.

own bloody smile
leaving
high boy
black code
think love.

[ducky]

fire, dancing, joy, light, passion, caress, sun, angels, being, give

caress joy
give passion
fire being light
dancing sun angels

light dancing
sun being passion
joy give angels fire
caress

light joy passion
angels being fire
caress
give dancing sun

[roane]

lie, sing, whisper, touch, can't, you, one, breathe, free, light

lie
touch, sing
breathe free
light
whisper you one
can't

breathe
sing, touch
can't free you
one whisper
lie light

touch you
whisper, breathe
one free light
can't lie
sing.

[bluecrayon]

across razor sighs dance there bikeboy shimmer edge fingers linger


across razor sighs
dance there, bikeboy
shimmer
edge fingers
linger...

sighs dance there
fingers across bikeboy's
edge
razor shimmer
lingers.


edge there
bikeboy dance
across shimmer
razor sighs
fingers linger.

[ducky]

Angel, sing, sunlit, strong, dry, reaching, depression, poetry, drink, mine.

mine
dry sunlit angel
drink depression poetry
strong reaching
sing

strong angel mine
drink dry depression
reaching sunlit poetry
sing

drink poetry strong
depression sing
reaching sunlit angel
dry mine

[ducky]

colors, moving, endless, taste, breeze, touch, work, joy, deep, gentle

endless gentle colors
deep moving breeze
work joy
taste touch

gentle taste
work moving endless breeze
colors touch joy deep

gentle endless colors
moving deep
touch breeze work
taste joy

[ducky]

angel, eyes, eternity, hold, forward, light, dance, now, reaching, mine

light dance
eternity now
eyes reaching forward
hold mine angel

mine forward eyes
angel dance
reaching light
now hold eternity

eyes now light
forward reaching
hold angel
eternity mine
dance

[mstrishadams]

words: wild heart scent joy art ocean spring bloom rain heat

ocean scent art
art scent ocean
scent ocean art

wild spring heat
bloom wild spring
spring joy rain

rain heart wild
wild heart rain
scent spring bloom

LOL, mstrishadams

[ducky]

crystals, drift, play, reaching, sweet, forward, sighs, sunlit, my, peaceful

forward my sighs play
drift reaching peaceful
sweet sunlit crystals

reaching forward
sunlit peaceful sighs play
my crystals drift sweet

sweet reaching play
drift forward crystals
my peaceful sighs sunlit

[ducky]

bursting, forward, giving, hands, hearts, loudly, spirit, thoughts, warm, working

giving hearts hands
thoughts loudly working warm
bursting spirit forward

forward hands giving
hearts bursting loudly
warm hearts spirit working

bursting forward
spirit loudly working
hands hearts thoughts
warm giving