A poem a day keeps the mundanity away.
I made that up, yeah.
But here’s me introducing a poem-reading challenge to you.
Because reading a poem every single day of your life is actually going to take you to places anything else might not. Why? Because this history has shown us some pretty great poets who used their divine talent to bring forth pieces of writing that hold the power of changing the world—or changing oneself. Almost the same thing.
The morbid, stuck-in-a-loop-kind of mundanity that we experience in our daily life is not just dull and low-level horrifying, but also stunts our emotions.
Just imagine what you feel upon reading one single piece of poem by a someone who had mastered the craft of it.
Just think back to the rhyming, the sentence structure, the imagery, and most importantly, the idea.
The routine of everyday life, of doing the same things every day, chasing the same goals, reading the same kind of stuff and talking to people who say the same thing might push us down the rabbit hole if we let it.
I might be over-exaggerating the desperation we all feel, in quite an alarming amount, but the idea remains the same: reading one poem every single day is one of the better daily habits you could build for emotional growth.
Additionally, it also adds to your literary prowess, helps you embrace bigger and better ideas formed by the classics, and most interesting of all—helps you get in conversations with dead minds. Isn’t that fun?
Take a look at this.
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!-Edna St. Vincent Millay, “First Fig”
Here’s the thing: I send you one poem every day for the next 21 days to properly get you into the habit of reading (and maybe even writing) poetry daily. When these 21 days are over, you yourself will want to wake up every morning and check out newer and more poems.
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