Creative Imagination

HORRIBLE POEM

Exercise: Write a 5-line poem that is purposefully “terrible”, with whatever format or style you choose. Try just to make it the very opposite of what you or others might think is good. 

Why: Judgment is the number one killer of creativity. On the other hand, freeing yourself from judgment is rocket fuel for the imagination. It is a healthy act of creative imagination to abandon any self-censorship completely and to just create impulsively, even going so far as creating something purposefully “bad.”  And, you might find that something good comes out of it.

Enhances Creative Imagination which includes divergent thinking, brainstorming, removing barriers, and combining ideas without rules or judgments. 

Example:

Better stand back

Here’s an age attack,

But the second in line

Is dealing with it fine.

- Poet Laureate Andrew Motion for Prince William’s 21st birthday

...Teacher, teacher, I don’t understand,

You tell me it’s like the back of my hand.

Should I play guitar and join the band?

Or head to the beach and walk in the sand?

- Actor Charlie Sheen

A HORRIBLE POEM

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