Circular Breathing
By Gabrielle Journey Jones
Published 2 September 2024
Breathe in truth.
Simultaneously
Breathe out loss.
You hear poems
Being moved
Through you
How they resonate.
Words activate your chakra
Captivating imagery cascades
Free fall from the top of your crown
Imprinting throat, heart and solar plexus
Softly grounding in your muladhara.
Breathe in truth.
Simultaneously
Breathe out loss.
You feel poems
Being moved
Through you
How they medicate.
Write a poem about your favourite work of art, describing what it looks like, what story it tells, what words, memories, thoughts or feelings the art evokes within you.
Gabrielle Journey Jones
#30in30 writing prompt
Poetry can be used to describe life just as ekphrasis is a process to describe art through poetry. When we share our descriptions of either art or the human experience using poetry, we connect and communicate creatively. Poetry has gifted me a lifetime tool to better understand myself and others.
Gabrielle Journey Jones
#30in30 #PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #Fellowship
This poem is a response to the sculpture by Ian Gentle “Spinning Spider”, 2008, eucalyptus wood, 100 × 80cm.
2024 is my year of Fantastic Ekphrastic Musings (FEM). I woke up on New Years Day in a tent almost floating on mud from Woodford Folk Festival’s finale, a blinding, brilliant, drenching Summer storm, a day after launching my third poetry collection “The Purpose of Truth”. On opening my eyes, I declared my New Year’s resolution to write about art as often as I could. To hone my writing practice describing and responding to art as well as teaching others to develop their ekphrasis poetry. Minimum once a month, I planned to go to our local gallery SECCA in Bega with friends to write about exhibitions - how we experience and connect with the visual art on offer. It is July and we have had 6 sessions already.
In addition, I have broadened my scope to find artwork in other galleries and online to inspire my poems. I plan to use my time at the Red Room Fellowship, Varuna to compile a draft FEM anthology manuscript and also to continue working on my 4th collection “Arrangements” which will include a selection of my poems from FEM. The opportunity to have a week away to write, link in with a group of writers and have a mentor will be a wonderful adventure!
