How To Connect With Your Intuition Through Blackout Poetry
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Directions for blackout poetry creation!
Disconnection from yourself can create a feeling of meaninglessness and discontent. But ironically, the pressure to connect with your inner voice can create noise that prevents you from hearing yourself. Blackout poetry puts the focus on creating a piece of art and takes away the noise. Creating blackout poetry is a fun exercise for developing your intuition.
You don’t need to be a writer, a poet, or an artist to create blackout poetry. You don’t even need to know anything about poetry. If you’ve heard of found poetry, erasure poetry, redacted poetry, or altered book poetry, blackout poetry is pretty much the same thing.
To create blackout poetry all you need is a pen, pencil, or marker, and a book page you don’t mind ruining. Or, check out the free blackout poetry book page printables to give it a try.
Here’s an example of a blackout poem I created from Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit.
Dreaming,
thinking the strange thing.
Here kinds of wanting come together.
Here is a temporary difficulty;
and in the very next here is another!
Here is a possessing who wants to come and live
an airy bedroom walk.
Even those who are away and being come back,
relinquishing a thoughtful making known
as if they found it a comfort.
In the days leading up to creating this blackout poem, I was reflecting on how helpful paying attention to my dreams is. Yet, when I started finding this blackout poem on the page, I had no idea what the blackout poem was going to be about. I’m usually surprised by the blackout poem I end up with when I use this method of intuitive journaling! Once I’ve created my blackout poem I like to give it a title and copy it into my journal alongside the date. Then I journal about why I think the particular words I chose and the poem I created stood out to me.
Here’s how I created the blackout poem above.
I like to keep my blackout poems in a poetry journal. When I write the blackout poems in my journal, I add line breaks to make the blackout poem sound right to me, I give it a title, and I journal about what the blackout poem means to me and why my intuition created the poem it did.
Try it out with a free blackout poem book page printable!
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