Today's challenge involves your mind and the skill of memorising. Like any skill the more you practice memorising the better you become. And you know the saying "move it or loose it" - well it definitely applies to the brain. So use it or loose it!
Do you have a book of poetry in your home? Go grab it. No books? Use Google. Maybe there is a verse that you remember from school. Or perhaps something you've heard quoted in a movie. Or a famous poet whose works you have never read. If you are likely to stress about making a choice like this give yourself a time limit in your search - say 10 minutes.
Let's get to it
- Select a piece of poetry that speaks to you.
- Write it down. Write it many times before you speak it.
- Then take one line and say it to yourself in your head. Over and over. When you can say it many times then go to the next line.
- Repeat the second line over and over in your head then add it to the first line. Say these two lines together a number of times.
- Now it's time to look at line three. Continue the same process with all the lines - learn one adding it to the previous one - until you get to the end of the piece.
- Then practice the whole piece in your head without looking at the lines at all.
Now it's time to say it out loud. In any way you wish. Enjoy it. See if you can say it out loud every day this week.
Just memorise it and discover that in the simple doing of it you will discover meaning.
This is the piece I have chosen written by Australian writer and poet Nancy Cato:
I would love to hear what piece you chose to memorise so leave me a comment. Thanks!
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry - Jack Kerouac
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