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The Purpose of Creativity

Posted on February 22, 2013 | 2 comments

The Purpose of Creativity

To create is to DO something. And as we learned in school, a “doing” word is the layman’s term for a verb.

Therefore, creativity is a verb. It is an action, a process, a “doing.”

To follow this line of thinking, the purpose of creativity is also an action and a process, a “doing.”

This “doing” is within the creator, and in the recipient or receiver of the creation.

When we create, we want the reader or listener or viewer to do something.

We want an action to occur.

Thus, the purpose of creativity is a verb, an action. This is short list of actions for creativity’s purpose (and yes, I am playing with semantics at times):

To ask questions
To ask more questions
To ask better questions
To answer questions
To posit solutions
To question solutions
To suggest solutions and answers
To explore (values, ideas, beliefs, morals, culture, gender, politics, religion, philosophy etc)
To encourage (participation, motivation, action)
To amuse and humour
To provoke
To admonish
To call to action
To enjoy
To engage
To start a conversation
To engage in a discussion (but not an argument)
To challenge the naive and foolish
To challenge the wise and learned
To stimulate
To excite
To support
To teach
To learn
To educate
To simply “do”

What have I missed?

What other purpose are there to become actions?

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Post It Note Poetry February 22

Posted on February 22, 2013 | 1 comment

February 22 – Tacet

Tacet marked on the score

A signal to stop

To not play

To rest

A moment to listen.

The breath in is held

Counted first then numbered

A paused action

An eternity

Captured

Selah

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Post It Note Poetry February 21

Posted on February 21, 2013 | 1 comment

February 21 – Fences

I peer between the common
Connection of our backyards
Through the fractured fingers
Of the old paling fence
Splayed out with lichen fingernails
And mossy knuckles
Leaning and bearing the weight
Of the jasmine and wisteria.
I peer into your backyard
Slatted snippets of sight
And wonder if you look into mine

Took a couple of photos for today’s poem. I liked them both so I included them here.

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Post It Note Poetry February 20

Posted on February 20, 2013 | 1 comment

February 20 – Conversations

Plucking at the topic

Yet mistimed with

Bum notes and fret buzz

The tuning slightly out creating

Dyssynchronous harmonics.

A pause before plucking

At the topic, adjusting the tuning pegs

So it resonates, oscillates

And runs the arpeggios

In synchronous harmony.

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Post It Note Poetry February 19

Posted on February 19, 2013 | 1 comment

February 19 – Dance Concert

Plumage of tulle

Bunched around bottoms

The perfect formation

Of conglomeration

Packed together

Cygnets learning to fly

In formation

By huddling together

This poem was inspired by the eucalyptus tree in blossom outside the office where I work.

I have two young daughters who love to dance and the bunch of blossoms reminded me of children’s dance concerts where they haven’t quite learned spacial awareness and clump together on stage.

If you are a native Antipodean, it will also remind you of May Gibbs’ creation, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.