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Word Touch: The
Lady's Scriptorium
Joanne Sprott
Last updated on
July 5, 2008
 Who Am I?
In any given moment, I choose to be:
- unconditionally and compassionately loving, without
expectations;
- happy alone, without the need for someone else to make
me so;
- free in my loving, without jealousy or fear of any sort;
- pure of heart—knowing my responsibilities and those of
others, and being responsible for all and only my feelings
and actions;
- honest about my feelings and actions, without motives of
fear or manipulation;
- inspirational in my own creativity through poetry,
prose, speaking, and music.
So, this is who I am (when I'm fully aware, of course :)).
Here's what I do to remind myself of who I am and to open a
space for the folks around me to find their souls and express
their creative selves.
I write and recite poetry on people and places that have
moved me, the spiritual journey and the heart's search for love, using metaphors from mythology and the natural world
around us. I discovered after one performance that I'm really a storyteller disguised as a poet (shhh, don't tell). On my
blog page, you'll find
some of my verses.
Recently, my husband, Matthew has collaborated with me on a
number of poems and helped me edit my own, with amazing results,
so, you'll see his name along with mine in
the blog, depending on the piece.
I've noticed that the modernist phase of poetry, where people outside the ivory tower seemed to have no access to
understandable narrative verse, seems to have passed, and poetry is returning to its troubadourial and storytelling roots. In
response, I've started a poet of the month series. For
May, check out
Emily Dickinson on the
Poetry Forum.
Emily may have written from physical
seclusion way back in the nineteenth century, but her passion
and her almost telegraphic style at times, makes for riveting
reading. Let yourself flow or tap with her sometimes strange
rhythms and see where they take you.
I also highly recommend Garrison Keillor's book, Good Poems, based on his daily readings on NPR's
The Writer's Almanac. If you think poetry is obscure and stuffy and
weird, take a look at Keillor's choices and you'll be moved, amused, and inspired.
I've written a number of essays so far,
re-interpretations of biblical stories with an eye for
extracting the still valuable nuggets of universal wisdom
within. On this page, you'll see abstracts of the essays I've
written so far, which will make good chapters for a book, I
think. I'll add more as I finish reading on other topics in this
very rich material on the human an divine.
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