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Nada

Alexander Calder mobile

If all you have is nada
You should try a little harder.
If your mind is going blank
And it’s not just one big prank
That you play so’s not to play
Then you must go straightaway
To a doctor for a cure
To a good one to be sure
That the cure will really work
Or you might try your network
Fire the brain cells to connect
To become an architect
of words, ideas, forms,
magic places, unicorns,
Or an artist, a magician,
A word artist on a mission.
So instead of having nada,
You could try some Neo-dada,
Art and life could become one
If you just try to have fun.

Identity shattering. A six word poem for #clmooc

 

Photo by Sarah Wynne

Challenge: A #clmooc identity shattering in six words

As we consider who we are, our identities in the spaces and places of the neighborhoods in our lives — what essence is there in all of them?

What six concepts shape you as you shape them?

Challenge: Consider your beliefs. Using six words, arrange them as phrases read horizontally and vertically to express an essence of your identity.

Okay. I looked at examples. I fiddled with some words. I rearranged words and phrases. I deleted. I remain unsatisfied. I settled.

Understand solitude

Create together

Colour transforms

I know, it’s contradictory and it’s supposed to be.

Alternatively:

Understand and create colour.

Solitude together transforms.

That works for me. What about you? Is it too confusing? Now I feel shattered. And synthesized.