DAY 89 (August 7th, 2017)
![Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://i0.wp.com/www.bradseverance.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/percy_bysshe_shelley.jpg?resize=188%2C268)
To the Moon [fragment]
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
DAY 90 (August 8th, 2017)
![Carl Sandburg](https://i0.wp.com/www.bradseverance.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/carl_sandburg.jpg?resize=223%2C226)
Under the Harvest Moon
Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.
Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
My Commentary
I’ve combined these two into a single poem
THE GIBBOUS MOON
The gibbous moon confers gifts—
firelit gossamer to light your forest path.
But when she wanes
and there’s a fall from grace
be vigilent, capricious heart—
It is not a time for mourning …
but for sowing.
The harvest home cannot be denied you.
The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.
I started this 100 Day Project on May 11th. My project is to read a poem, and write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by that poem. I’ll post the results at www.bradseverance.com/category/100-day-project/
Enjoy!