30 Day Poetry Challenge

1. Welcome: Welcome to the course, create a daily poetry practice. In this course, you're going to learn the tips, tools and techniques that I use to be able to write poetry daily. By the end of the course, I hope to get you sitting in front of your laptop or pen and paper and be able to at minimum start playing with words, but at best be able to commit to writing a poem every day and start getting results. We'd like to write poetry because it's therapeutic. It's taking the, the mental turmoil, all the stuff going on in their brain, put it into a logical response and expressing it. It's a way to get out the inner demons, so to speak. My name is Zachary Phillips. I'm an online mental health advocate, author and coach. And in this role of helped thousands of people move from a place of surviving to passionately thriving. And one of the tools that I use for that process is to encourage a creative, creative expressions, particularly in the form of writing and poetry, is a very easy and accessible way to just get started on that. So in this course we're going to talk about the reasons why we're talking about how to get into that practice. I'm going to give you some examples of the poetry that I've written that has received quite a lot of great positive feedback and has been quite enjoyable and beautiful to write for myself. Even if you choose to never share your poetry, the act of riding is the goal, is the dream is, is the healing itself. So without further ado, let's start writing. 2. Why Write: So let's talk about why we want to write poetry. Poetry is the act of expression. It's an act of dealing with the thoughts and the confusion and the chaos of the world or the things that we're sort of trying to process and sort of putting, putting words to it obviously, but in a way that isn't so scary if you think about a concept in your mind, Let's take love cuz I'm going to use a poem that I wrote about love in the next example to sort of drill down on this point. But if you think about love and you sort of don't really go deep on it. If this fleeting thought, it sort of appears and disappears. And we're left with a surface level impression or we're left with a deep feeling. But we don't have the ability to sort of explain that are expressed at a regal, even know our opinions on the topic. It can always be said that into we start talking about it. Instead we write it down until we think about it. We don't really know much. And for me and for people like me, it's something I want to investigate. So what do I think of this concept? What do I think of anger and love, and compassion and regret, and all of these sort of deep level thoughts. Okay, I need to start systematically going through my thoughts and processing that. How do I process them? Well, let's actually talk about it and dig deep. Let's express it, let's find out what we feel. And as we start processing and running down and expressing it, we start going. Okay, that's sort of what it is. And then by, by expressing that, we get to see a bit more of who we are and where we see more of who we are, we can live a life that's more closer to what we actually value because of all that time were sort of go by Latin. Then we have these feelings, but we don't quite know how to address them. Could we haven't dug into that. We have an introspective, we haven't expressed it. So one of the things that we use poetry for is to find out about ourselves, to express and to go into it. 3. State Your Reason Why: So I said this almost every course, but this isn't important to talk about. Why, why, why do you want to write the poetry every day? Now, we've talked about the different reasons why you could, but there's a reason why you clicked on this course as recent. Why you want to look into this poetry, whatever the reason is for you, right, Daniel y. So that every day when you sit down to write whatever that time is, you can look at your why and that's why I'm doing this. My reason why is x, the reason I am committing myself to running a piece of poetry every day is because, and the idea is, is that if you start your writing session or you start your idea sort of looking at your recent why. You're gonna have a little bit more motivation, a little bit more inspiration, and that you'd be sort of driven with a bit of purpose. So make sure that you've just got that idea of like your reason why you're doing this. Why are you watching this course? Why do you want to write, have that written down and expressed? 4. Poem: Love Is: So the first example of a poem I'm going to read to you is called love it. And if you click the link in the description down below, you'll be able to read along with me. But I'm worried the palm tree and then I'm, it took a little bit about the poem itself, why I wrote it and hopefully give you some inspiration down that path. Love is, love is a mortgage, debt promise of pain, pain paid with interest. For those who outlive. I was making connections despite knowing those connections will be broken. And it's the letting go of that guilt for doing so. Let us for the small sacrifices that contain the hidden joys and the memory that's both a blessing and a curse. Love is knowing when to push and when he must concede. The realization that the URL and leaving of the transgressions unseen loves the given. Take, the unspoken word, the conference freely given, and those gratefully accepted as the discipline to Saint number through begging, pleading and pain and the careful observation of limits reached. Loves, loves template guidance, a shot at eternity. And the words of encouragement to try once more. Well, there's a partnership, a bonding of the muse, a step into darkness taken together in faith. So as I was saying before, the concepts of these deep concepts of something like a love or an angle or grant or so, or remorse, grief, joy. All of these things can be thought of and dissected and explored. So, so for me, this poem came out of that explanation of like, well, we all sort of consider and notions of say the words like I love you and also suffer. But what does that actually mean? What does it mean to me? Because like, when you listen to that poem or read through it, you may agree or disagree with what I'm saying love is. But we can both be right in the sense that this is what it is to make. Now, you might, you might suggest looking at my words that maybe the word love isn't the correct appropriate term, should describe the emotion that I'm feeling here. That's a debate that we can have. But that's not really the point. The point is, is that I'm choosing to go into that as a way to express myself, as a way to express that feeling that I'm having. So if we just quickly go through it, the first few lines, I'm talking about the pain of love. When you love someone, there's a risk, but it's inevitable that the relationships going to end, either through breakup or death. That's an inevitability. But without inevitable outcome comes some sort of pain. That pain has to be paid by your the other person. And for me personally, with my past, I've had issues of attachment and connection and neglectful parenting and that sort of stuff. So I've been tentative and sort of hesitant to full, fully into a relationship. It's too scary, it's pain, this loss, this regressed from, or at least it has been by exploring my feelings on this topic. It's enabled me to sort of get a bit of healing there and express it and go, yeah, well, there is pain, but we have to not feel guilty about that. We have to accept that we have to keep moving on. You know, so then we go, we go down the poem and I won't go through the whole thing. But just to give you an idea of where this is coming from, It's the discipline to say number 3, the begging, pleading and pain, the careful observations of limits are reached. So what I'm talking about with my partner, with my son and people with me, that you don't just give everything to someone that you love. You have to ensure that you are looking after yourself and the relationship. Because if you just say yes to everything, if you just just go, I'll do everything for you. That's not really loved, that servitude, you have to, you have to be sort of two pillars working together with the relationship. Not one just holding up the other one the whole time. Which sort of leads down to the love is a partnership. The point I'm trying to make is with this, you can choose any of these topics and we'll go, whenever we go into the how later on in the course, I will break down how to do this yourself. But the idea is, is that we use a concept like love as a starting point to dictate into what we actually feel on the topic. 5. Introspection: Another reason to write poetry and to write a daly is a form of basically self therapy, a form of investigating what's going on in the mind, what we've been ruminating on, what we've been thinking about. And just sort of help to shed light on it. And what are the time our thoughts overwhelm us because we just let them run wild in the brain now through meditation and you can watch some of the medications. Of course, as I've got up, you can start to detach and step back from it. But another approach to dealing with those thoughts is to shine the light of consciousness on them, turn and face them, express them, put them on the page and then they no longer bouncing around in their deficit. You sort of like taking them out, express them and going Yeah, I've acknowledged you, I've faced you. It's like that that idea of holding on to anger. You just going to burn yourself, right? Holding onto the coal of Angular, you gotta throw it at someone, but you burn yourself in the process. What we're trying to do here is by giving them words and expressing the thought-out, were able to just step back, let it go, and just acknowledge the way that with feeling. So this next poem will be basically a little breakdown of the way that I was feeling at the time of writing. 6. Poem: Memory Violation: So this poem is called a memory violation. And it's, it's a short poem that uses a lot of similar Ron's, for example, the Asian sound. And like say click below, you can have a link. You can have a watch that lower rate of that as we go along. But the idea is that I was filling, basically depressed and overwhelmed and just in a really bad hits day. So I'm gonna read it to you then we'll break it down into a little bit more. Brain oscillation. No concentration, thought, invasion, constant rumination, memory violation, past commiseration, unwanted stimulation, apologetic compensation, fleeting determination, hypocritical deliberation, personnel, personality creation, false presentation, total ostentation, needing defibrillation. Now, reading that out loud, I can it's not. I want to express to you that the, the, the idea of running poetry in this form is form self cares of foam cell therapy. You're not writing it for other people. So as I, as I read this and I encourage you to read this through, I'm basically highlighting the first little bit how I'm feeling, how my brain's going, that I'm talking about why I'm feeling that the positive memories of the the issues that have had dealing with past trauma that I'm talking about where I am now the The hypocritical nature that the creating the perceptions that all of that sort of stuff, projecting a false front. And then I'm saying, Hey, I need a reflex and he stopped over again. I'm not writing this poetry for other people in the sense that it's not like two to win awards. It's not to do any of that is to just get home and feeling out onto the page and to make it a little bit of a sense of it. Having written this poem, it actually focused me. It put me out of that dark funk and just made me feel better. I decided to play with the Asian rhyme, oscillation, concentration, invasion, rumination, et cetera. Just as a way to see if I could physically, you know, with, with poetry in this beautiful approaches to the way you're going to write poetry. And later, later in the course, I'll talk about the how of this. Personally, I'm not a fan of sticking two styles in the sense of the classical ABAB style or any of those other things. But you're free to do so. For me, I choose a restriction or confinement or a rhyme pattern of something like this, for example, using the ancient rhymes as a way to just make it a little bit of fun, make it a challenge, Make it going well, I want to express this, but how can I express this in a way that adds a little bit of funk to it. And that process of expressing how I'm feeling provided with trying to use the tool that I have limited myself to. That process itself helps me to get back into the present moment, focus on how I'm feeling and then yeah, I'll rights as a form of riding therapy. So that's something that you can consider. 7. Poem: Mojito the Bandito: Of course, poetry writing doesn't have to be all doom and gloom or emotional or this hole in a world expressed. It can just be a bit of fun. You can want to just play with words and see how they go or tell a story or just express something. So this next poem I'm going to read to you is something like that. It's basically me looking at and going, how can I express this happen? I just get this out. It actually started as a lucid dream. If you followed my other courses is a lucid dream cause it you can check out. But the idea was that I had this dream and then all the way up on my Chrome, that'll be cool. And the, the first line of the poem just came in. I'm like, What can I do to express this? What can I do to just capture this as a palm? Can I express the story of my dream in the form of a poetic rhyme? And follows is an example of that. The pumps called Ma, He said the band E-type. Mahindra, the bend data on the run from the law. Haydn impersonator. Two places he can be sold committing crimes, but same with an alibi. The adventures he had, his schemes weren't shy. The cartels took notice. Alaska couldn't last told my heaters stop or his head, they would blast. But Mahila wasn't stupid. Get a plan to enact told is impersonated to wait, then it was my heater is time to act. He shot the man himself, displayed his body on the town wall, made the cartels happy, and my heater attended his own funeral. Now he writes free again to decide named my heater no more is facing us. Hide. Beware the mask banded the criminal with no name. He will kill you where you stand and leave with no shame. So I mean I mean, time that did come from the drain. The other part came from reading my son, Dr. Seuss stories and other kids nursery Ron says and cut that bit of that cadence, bit of that flow. But for the most part, why? Well, why would I write a poem like this? Just seemed like a bit of fun, something to do, somethings and expression. So when you don't have to just take everything super seriously, I'm fairly serious guy myself, but there are times that I will want to express myself and just play a little bit. Poetry can be used in that format as well. 8. Getting Inspired - Value List: Let's talk now about getting the inspiration to write your poetry. How do you actually come up with the ideas? So I've talked a little bit in the y section, talking about the idea of expressing whatever is going on in your mind or relating to a dream, or just sort of processing past issues, right? But the remote way is to actually just get the actual inspiration to become. One of the ideas that you can go through is to literally look up a value list. So a value list is like things that people value. And you can just check and quick Google in and come up with lists. Tends to twenties to hundreds of just different words. These words could be anything from like honor, leadership, happiness, joy, silliness, right? And it sounds a little bit interesting to try this, but if you want an inspiration or a topic point like for the example I used to love, love is you could look up a value list and just scroll down the words and you'll eventually get one that jumps out at you. You, Mike are hung on. And that word will just have this push, this parallel. Or you might find one that's got a different expression like right IJ or grief. Saying these words and thinking about what they mean, they quite emotionally evocative. So one practice you can do to look through that list, just have a little scroll down and just have a little play. Have a little look at it and go, well, what do I feel about this word? And you'll find that as you're doing it one, we'll just jump out at you. And that word that jumps out at you, that's the one that you start playing with. What rhymes with that word? What word? What does that would make you feel? What were the things from your past that involved that word? When were you feeling honorable? When we shot on a broken when did someone that you thought you had it, someone act honorably, right? It's basically just taking a sort of inspiration, a prompt from Ace particular word. And if you're going through your day and you're like, Okay, I'm going to write this every day, okay? And you're struggling. Have a look through have that printed facade. You what am I going to ride on today? Go through, check one off and give it a shot. 9. Let The World Know: On the topic of letting the world know what's happening. Make sure that you're letting your partner, your family, your friends, all of the people in your life know that you're doing this. You don't have to show them the results. You'd have to say like, Hey, here's my poem that I wrote today. That can be for you write, you can write it in your diary and kidney cells. You can burn it, do whatever you like with the poem. But you're going to be committing time to this practice. Okay, So let people know, like, Hey, this matters to me. Let them know why it matters to you. Why are you doing I'm doing this for a form of expression. I'm doing this because I want to practice my art form. Are doing this for self-care. I'm doing this to help work through some of the demons and my past. I'm doing this because I want to prove how good of a poet I am. Whatever the reason is for you. Let them know why and let them know why it matters to you and why it matters to them. I write poetry because helps my brain. Why does that matter to my son, to my partner? Well, most of them because it puts me in a better mental step that enables me to be a better partner. Yet been a partner, bit of friend, better person for them. So it's in their best interest in a sense to accommodate what I'm doing with my poetry. Because that's what makes sense. And this isn't to say be selfish all the time, but it's acknowledging that you have needs and just sharing what those needs are with the people in your life. In this case, it is establishing a poetry practice. So tell people like, Hey, this is what's going to happen at this time. This is what I need from you. Bit of quiet. No interruptions and gear unless it's like the bottle just Oh, I'll address it later. And that's our k. And then when your time's up, you do them and address it. 10. Poets Daily Carry: With all that in mind, there is the idea that poetry can't just come and just flow. So some people can't work at a particular time. They just serve, wait for the creative music come and it just flows into them. Now, that happens to me sometimes as well. So what we're going to look at is what tools can we use to to make sure that we can trap that image? He'd make sure that we can harness it when it comes and get those creative juices flowing sort of in the zone in the moment. Although the time when I'm exercising or meditating a poem will just come. And I've learnt to have certain tools on me to be able to best guarantee that I'm able to either write the poem then and there, or sort of taking note on it and be able to address it as I'm as I'm doing. And three tools are usually carry on me is my phone, and my phone has the note section that I can just quickly take notes and I find that I'm running a lot of my poems at, at the moment on the phone because you can sort of tweak it and change. It just sort of works for me. I also carry a digital voice recorder that you can play and record and all that sort of stuff with your own voice there. And the idea being that I might not have the time to go through and go, Okay, I'm going to write down and sort of tweak it now that I could take notes on what I'm going to talk about all like, you know, some, some basically just to get into that groove and replay it for me at a later stage during my running time. And the third thing I'll keep on me is just a general note pad and pen. Once again, for the similar format, can always talk to yourself. Sometimes you just have to write it down and sometimes you just feel like writing with pen and paper is the way to express it. So whatever you, whatever you're doing, just make sure you're carrying something on you. Basically at all times to be able to just get into that groove when it comes, the worst feeling is when I don't have anything to note it down and it's like this, poetry needs to be expressed. There's this sort of idea that when you open yourself up to the muse, open yourself up to creativity, stuff just starts coming and you'll get this feeling is like, Oh my God, this has to be written. So you'll learn very quickly to keep something on you to keep track of that. You don't have to have the stuff that I use, but find out an approach to tracking what you're writing that works for you and make sure it's always on you. 11. Making Time: Okay, so now you've looked at the different reasons why you would run it about poetry daily. You can use it to express yourself as a form of personal therapy, as a bit of fun, just something to do as a way to create art for art's sake, whatever the reason is, you've decided that you want to write the poetry. Now we've got a couple of things. Well, how do we get the inspiration to write the poetry? And what about the practical nature of writing poetry itself? As in, how do we make sure that we've got the time and the space to do the writing. So the next part of this course, we'll go into the specifics of how, how do we actually get the, the ability to write these poems. So the first thing I suggest is the need to sit aside time. Ideally, it's the same time every day. I've got a couple of courses that you can watch on establishing a morning routine waking up earlier. And the reason I suggest those is because for me personally in a lot of people, stuff happens during the day, but in that quiet time in the morning when the family's asleep, the child's slate, the partners asleep. You don't have to get up for work. You brains fresh because you're just working up from an isolate. You can right? Now perhaps that time might be at night for you, might be in the middle of the day. But whenever that time is and you might have to scrape it out, find it, experiment with a few different times over. Maybe do a week in the morning or weaken the afternoon a week it now when it runs in bed and work out what works best for you. But it has to work best. Both feel mental state in terms of your energy levels and creativity levels, but also in terms of life applicability. So for me, wanting time works both for life because everyone's asleep in his car and for my personality, for whatever reason, I'm significantly more energetic and vibrant and creative in the morning. What I've realized is from a personal working perspective, I do my creativity stuff in the morning. And then I do the sort of the editing, the processing, the DOM work at night because I can still do that sort of stuff. But if I try and write at night, my brain just isn't firing on all cylinders for whatever reason. That's just how I work. I know other people are incomplete reverse. So it's really up to you to find when that ideal time is. And the second reason is, is you will find that, that ideal time and stick to it. Because if you can find that time and stick to it, you get into this group to this pattern going, okay, It's seven AM. Now's my writing time. I'm going to write for 45 minutes. That's the time I've dedicated and I'm often I'm going and I'm ready to go. This is what I'm doing. It's like anything. It's like exercise, meditation, practicing guitar, learning a language, whatever it is. If you practice the thing daily, if you practiced it consistently, you will get better at it. So when we're talking about making a daily practice of poetry writing, you have to put that first in the sense that you can't just go off. I'll find a spot somewhere in the day doing you'll want you will a couple of times, but it just English. You prioritize it unless you to lock it in and go. Okay. Running times locked in. And then I'm building the rest of the day around that. Now, obviously you'll have other commitments. Work might be a chunk there, okay, so now you've got work chunk running shown or what are the chunks da need. So you've got writing chunk, work chunk. You need to put in some family time, you need to put it in some exercise time. You need to put in some downtime, eating time TO literary tile, all that sort of stuff. Work out your chunks that have to exist, and then slot the rest of your day around it and be consistent. Try and keep coming down to that time, every time, every day, consistently to sort of let your brain know, let the world know that you're self-aware. Like, Hey, this is what's happening. 12. Turn Off The Internal Editor: I want to encourage the idea of turning off your internal filter. There's this sort of edited, this voice in the back your head, it's going to be telling you, are you suck, this isn't good. Giving you all of these demeaning thoughts that sort of suggests that, hey, you probably shouldn't be doing this, right? Ignore that voice at least while you're writing initially. Yes. Are you sitting down to write you doing a poetry in his voice starts saying like, hey, this sucks that word, success, this shouldn't be done. You suck. All know what your voice is saying, right? But I know for me there's this constant load shadow of sort of just putting just doubt into my mind. I mean, it's coming from my mind, but it's just it's a separate part of me that's like, Hey, no antenna like this, you are like this. Why you're doing this right? The best to push that aside, to ignore. You can use meditation. You can use all of these different tools to block it off or to ignore it or to accept it. But the best way is to just sort of work through it. In the sense of the practicing I'm gonna do is sit down and just start. Just acknowledge to yourself, yeah, this first draft, this go it might not be good. That doesn't matter. It's the act of writing that I'm going for. Okay, this, this word might not be the appropriate choice. Circle it, keep going and come back to it later, right? The whole idea is just to keep that flow going. The worst thing you can do is for most people, is edit as you're riding in the sense that like you're writing a poetry, you've got this whole flow going in the zone and then you go, Oh, that's not working. And the net just sort of put this like a screeching stop. And you had no ability to continue until you address that word. Maybe the right approach is to look at that word. But most often than not, it's just underline it circle that. Remember that you are going to address that and know that you will. And then just keep going. And then at the end, once you've gotten the broad structure of the poem, you come back and you go, hmm, okay, I do need to change that word because the other thing is as you might be editing as you go. But you don't really know necessarily where the whole thing is going to end. And if you're using as a form of expression, one with therapy at home self-care. You certainly don't know where it's going to end it. So it's it's just coming out of. So what do you, I think four, okay, highlight there might be a problem. Get the whole poem down and then go back and look at it and go, Is it really a problem? Because what you'll find is that it might be fine, it might not be. But now that you've got the overall structure of your poem done, you can look back and go, okay, I do need to fix this given the context of the rest of the poem. Okay, It's not the point to address it as we go. Just ignore that voice, plow through, address it and just know that it's going to suck the first time through. That's okay. You're editing your process will address it as you're reading through it, you will fix it. 13. Inspiration Through Introspection: So I'm looking at is how internal narratives and self stories impact our lives. We have a tendency to tell a narrative about ourselves based on our past, based on our experiences, based on who we perceive ourselves. We project this image to the world. You know, if you're a police officer or a teacher, or a social worker or a bank manager, like a cleaner, whatever you are, you're going to look at the world from your perspective if you've gone to university or if you left school early, right? If you had a traumatic past or if you had a loving past, right? How you the stories that you grew up telling you stuff about who you are. You know, I was the good KOs, the annoying kills the class clown or talking to a lot of arguments, right? Whatever you did, whatever the story is, whatever your story is, that's going to impact how you see the world. So one of the ways, one of the inspirations that I use for my poetry is to stop looking at the stories that I'm telling myself. You know, what sort of kid did I think I was? Have I approached relationships? What's my view on society as a whole and its role? You know, where do I sit and sort of just sort of stepping back and looking at me as a creature almost like anthropomorphic note from authorizing, stepping back and sort of investigating who, who and what I am from a detached perspective. Like I'm looking at myself as a scientist would a new discovery, right? I'm gonna go, what, what does this person think? How do they think? Why do they think? So? We can step back and look at my story and okay, when I was growing up, I thought this about the world. How was that led me to feel about myself and about the world itself? Well, consequences of having this internal narrative had on my life. Now, can I express that? Now the poem that comes out of that process might be, might be completely divergent from that initial full process. But if you're looking for inspiration, if you're looking for an idea of how to start something good about yourself and just walk through your past, will repost friendships and relationships and highs and lows. And if it hurts or if it's like emotionally strong. Your hidden ago, Goldman, because that's, that's, that's where the real passion is going to come from. That's where it matters, right? 14. Use Social Pressure Positively: Okay, So we're getting down to the nitty-gritty of this course. We've looked at why you would want to run the poetry. We've looked at how you would, in a sense of getting inspiration from value words, looking over your past, the idea of exploring and dreams, the idea of just relate to how you relate to the world as a way to get your prompts for writing your inspiration. But we need to make sure that we are committed to this. Now, some people will just be able to get young and do it. And they will. But for most of us, when you form habits. So if you want, you can check out the habit forming courses that I've gotten have breaking causes. But the key points of this. The first thing want you to consider is to establish that daily practice, like we've said, block off the time, lock it in and do it. Tell your friends and tell your family. And they're telling you friends and family is the social proof. We're social creatures. So if we tell people would go and do something, we feel obligated to do it. This is why if you're trying to quit smoking or if you're trying to go on a diet like Hey, this is what I'm doing world keep me accountable. Now. How to use this appropriately? I don't want to say to the world, Hey, I'm going to write a poem every day. Because the reality is, is that you might not actually get the palm completed every day. Some of the stuff, some of the poems that I wrote took a bunch of sessions to actually get them perfect. So my wrote in a single session. But what I want to emphasize is, well maybe what you should suggest to the world to get that social, social proof, social coercion that you're sort of trying to invoke is, Hey, I'm going to do a daily writing challenge for the next month. In that I'm going to try and write poetry every day. I'm going to try and write poetry full 30 minutes every day for this month. Give that a try. And asked me was like pages, just check in, let me know. And if you find yourself sort of tapering, wavering, get the people that helped me just say, hey, like in a can just check on Amin, asked me humbling, doing my writing, asking for progress up with x. You don't have to share what you're doing with them, but just use them as a, as an impetus of prompt to get you started. 15. Class Project: Okay, so the class project is to start a poetry journal. What I want you to do for the class project is for the next seven days and you're going to update it daily. You will do your poetry whatever time that is, the last thing you're gonna do after writing and poetry is log back onto Skillshare, pull up this course and update or comment after your power, after your project. So the first, the first thing you're going to write will be Damon. Poetry gyri. You'll write the time that you wrote and just write down how the session went today. The poetry session went like this. When writing, I felt like this. Today I had complete writer's block and couldn't do this today. I've got whole poem completed, right? Just let me know how you went and if you've got any questions, if you've got any queries, ask it there and I'll respond back each day and give you some motivation to be a bit of social proof. And it will help you to keep going. So you're going to use it as a way to sort of ask any issues that you have, but also just to keep you accountable to yourself and to me. And then after that seven days, you're free, keep going and do it for the rest of the month. But for this seven days just helps to establish and start that practice so that, so the class project is to after your session, jump on and let me know how you went on that day. And then I'll respond and you'll respond back with the next days for the seven days. 16. Quick Recap: Okay, So a quick recap. In this course, we've covered the reasons why you might want to write poetry daily for self-expression, for artistic expression as a form of having fun, as a form of self-care and just in a therapy. The benefits of writing poetry will, will extend to everyday life because you're getting the thoughts out and you're expressing them. And that's a wonderful level of healing involved in that. In terms of practically rotting the poems, we talked about the need to establish a daily practice at a particular time idea, one that works for you because that'll be different for you to me, we looked at the idea of getting a value statements and sort of trying to write on different values depending on what jumps out. We looked at. Dealing with the idea of whatever's going on in your mind and using that as the prompt to express, move to the idea of looking back over your own past and going. That was an interesting, That was an interesting, challenging, emotionally poignant event. Can I draw from that and express that all of those different approaches to writing will help you to get the words onto the page. And the class project was letting me know each day for seven days, how you're writing session went as a form of keeping each other socially accountable. You'll see up above you that there's something that says rate and review this course, please do so let me, let me know what you think and it just makes me feel good. That take take a little bit time on, just let me know how you felt. And if you want to read and review, look over any of the poems that I've written there all down in the project notes or in the show notes, as well as the links to the courses that I've mentioned. The other courses like the meditation and the daily rituals and the habit breaking that might help you then the specific paths. If you need further guidance in those areas, you want to connect with me, you can do so via social media at Set-Cookie fields everywhere and on my website, Zachary hyphen films.com. It's been a pleasure. I'm going to have a bunch more poetry causes coming out. So stay tuned and follow if you like that idea. Cheers.