The Truth is a Midnight Drum

The truth is a midnight drum

in that it

beat, beat , beats

through my unconscious mind.

Conjuring into a rhythmic vision that

dance, dance, dances

me through its candor.

Awakening, the beating strain

repeat, repeat, repeats

in my brain

bringing truth to the light of day.

I was in a notebooking funk over the past month or so. I love to write and doodle in my notebook but was struggling to come up with ideas each day. I puzzled around for awhile trying to figure out ways to shake up my practice a little bit. I attended a great writing summer camp through Teach Write and was exposed to new ways to engage with writing. I set up a weekly schedule (have not stuck to it religiously)…

Monday- Play a Solo Writing Game

Tuesday – Write Slice of Life

Wednesday- Select one of the Teach Write daily writing prompts for the month

Thursday- Thoughts of the day

Friday- Weekly reflection- 5-4-3-2-1

Saturday- Nature Journaling

Sunday- Write a post for my nature blog possibly inspired by Saturday’s work or daily thoughts

So this post is a combination of Monday and Tuesday. I couldn’t find my dice yesterday after searching for hours. I have chosen metaphor dice to use as my game each Monday in August. The dice push me to think differently and write about topics that I would not typically gravitate to. By using games on Monday, it gives me a fun way to start off the week by awakening my creativity in a different way.

So the truth beating through my unconscious last night must have been the location of my dice. Upon awakening, I easily found the dice in the first place that I looked.