As most people who have known me for a long time know I spent a lot of time growing up writing poetry to help me express the strange new thoughts and feelings going through my head as I was developing a mental illness. Most of my poetry was dark pessimistic. As I have grown and settled into my life I have learned how to deal with my illness and I found and married my love.

These things along with my children have contributed to a more positive outlook on life. This positive outlook seems to have had a slightly negative impact on my writing I the form of not being able to write poetry. I miss my poetry but not enough to give up my happiness so I have been trying to figure out other ways to get back into poetry.

This week I have decided to start an experiment. I found this cool free app for my phone called Fridge Poems, essentially it’s a virtual fridge with random magnet words on it that I can use to put together short verses. I’m hoping this will challenge my brain because I may think of a line and when I go to put it together all the words I want may not be there.

I have decided that my experiment is going to be this: I am going to write a short poem every day on my Fridge Poems app and take a screen shot. After a month is up I am going to look back and write out each one either finding a way to expand on each or keeping them as is and continuing on daily until I have a large collection.

Wish me luck!