A prompt for the day from Laurie Wagner’s 27 days. It is from an interview of hers with her friend Lisa Jones, author of the award-winning novel, Broken: a Love Story, a tale about Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho horse whisperer on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming.
Lisa speaks to the resistance that happens in the writing process. As I imagine/see it, it can be resistance to any creative discipline. It can simply be about being resistant to anything you desire to accomplish. That resistance that happens when you wish to get something done, and avoidance rises up and chokes away any hope of getting to what you were on the edge of doing.
I let the feeling/thoughts of my own resistance sit with me this morning to see what words might roll and flow out of me. This is what happened.
A Pantoum about Resistance
I went to bed and woke up with resistance
There is little wonder of its insidious creep
It gets too much emotional time out of me
It is a fear that keeps me from the best of myself
There is little wonder of its insidious creep
The stop and go of resistance catches the breath
It is a fear that keeps me from the best of myself
There is an irresistible negative self fulfillment in it
The stop and go of resistance catches the breath
The very act of resisting it claws away at me
There is an irresistible negative self fulfillment in it
The only way out is letting it in in the do it anyway
The very act of resisting it claws away at me
I’m bleeding from the lash of resisting it or not
The only way out is letting it in in the do it anyway
The day can have me doing it scared or not
I’m bleeding from the lash of resisting it or not
It gets too much emotional time out of me
The day can have me doing it scared or not
I went to bed and woke up with resistance
