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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

And last but not least, our daily optional prompt. Poetry often takes us to strange places – to feelings and actions that are hard to express except through the medium of a poem. To the “liminal,” in other words – a place or sensation that exists at or on both sides of a boundary or threshold, neither one thing or the other, but something betwixt and between.

In honor of the always-becoming nature of poetry, I challenge you today to select a photograph from the perpetually disconcerting @SpaceLiminalBot, and write a poem inspired by one of these odd, in-transition spaces. Will you pick the empty mall food court? The vending machine near the back entrance to the high school gym? The swimming pool at what seems to be M.C. Escher’s alpine retreat? No matter what neglected or eerie space you choose, I hope its oddness tugs at the place in your mind and heart where poems are made.

Here is the image I used

Taking refuge under a pedestrian foot bridge

Another trip around the country for this Sagittarius soul

Another State I have never lived in is where the car stalled

Of course in the middle of the night and miles from the nearest rest stop

The amber hue of the highway lights blanketed the ground as the mists appeared

My usual friends, a wallet, keys, and a cell phone snuggle close to my thighs

No one would be awake if I tried to call home, no one would be able to drive out

I start the long walk to find help from strangers who would rather be asleep

Whistling old songs to keep the focus on the goal, get home

That’s when the drizzle began

My steps quickened, as the jacket that would have provided warmth was left in the abandoned vehicle

The fog thickened so much my eyes almost missed the covering, but my body felt it momentarily

Overhead was a thin walkway spanning the highway and provided a moment of relief

So I climbed the embankment, making my way to the crux of where the footbridge met the earth

The winds had decided not to arrive to drive the rain into my body

And I stayed there for what seemed to be hours as I dared not take out the phone that would reveal it had been minutes

I crouched there as a sentinel, keeping watch for others that could relieve my predicament

But none came, the rain retreated back to dampness falling from the clouds until it was again mist

Sleep was winning the battle, it had been hours since last I rested

As I lay there, night denizens approached and retreated as they saw the area was not safe for them

The night sky plodded toward the early morn

As I rose and gained my bearings I crossed the foot bridge and saw lights ahead

A short trot led me to a previously unmarked ( at least from my clouded memory) gas station

I entered, soaked through and through

Within hours I was back on my journey with yet another story for the children, another gray hair for my wife, another dance with destiny that bade me well, this time

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

And now for our prompt. This one is a bit involved, which is why I’m giving it to you on a Saturday. Today, I’d like to challenge you to make a “Personal Universal Deck,” and then to write a poem using it. The idea of the “Personal Universal Deck” originated with the poet and playwright Michael McClure, who gave the project of creating such decks to his students in a 1976 lecture at Naropa University. Basically, you will need 50 index cards or small pieces of paper, and on them, you will write 100 words (one on the front and one on the back of each card/paper) using the rules found here.

Don’t agonize over your word choices. Making the deck should be fun and revealing, as you generate words that sound “good” to you. The fact that the words are mainly divided among the five senses should be helpful in selecting words that you like the sound of, and that have some meaning personal to you. For example, my deck contains “harbor,” “wool,” “murmur,” “obsidian,” and “needle.”

Once you have your deck put together, shuffle it a few times. Now select a card or two, and use them as the basis for a new poem.

I chose to use my tarot deck for todays prompt and got a very accurate reading for myself vs using the deck that the prompt suggested. Try it for yourself if you have a tarot deck, if not you can go online and get your own reading done if you choose, I would recommend however, getting it done by someone who knows how to use a deck.

The Reading

An upside-down tower tells of the crumbling I allowed to happen

The knight charging forth knows my mind is as sharp as his sword

A young man on his head reminds me to be still, be calm, be alone in my thoughts

Clouds open up, and a hand descends with a staff, beating my self-indulgent thoughts of laziness

Sipping my coffee, I see what I used to be, a student, and I realize that is what I enjoy being

Another cloud opens, another hand descends, this time with a sword cutting my conflicts in twain

The death that everyone fears seeing, is how I see myself as I clutch to decayed memories holding them close to my heart

But you may see me as the sunshine, the one who knows the answers, the one who has it together

My dreams dare me to become greater than I care to be

And it all ends with the strength to become the quiet master that others seek

That is the reading before me

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

In the world of well-known poems, maybe there’s no gem quite so hoary as Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about your own road not taken – about a choice of yours that has “made all the difference,” and what might have happened had you made a different choice.

Almost Left

You were sleeping off anther bad night of drinking

As I was out on the hotel patio changing my flight plans

We were to visit the justice of the peace in two days

Your hangover brought the news that my flight was in a few hours

I had packed up all my belongings to go back to Chicago

We filled up the car with gas and started the long drive to the airport

You turned on the radio and tuned in a random station

I wanted to escape so I lit another cigarette

The song spoke of love that we had but feared

Your tears made you swerve many times almost ending us

My anxiety went through the roof and to calm myself I listened to the words

We sat in the parking lot, and then we walked towards the counter

You begged for another chance, you swore off drinking so much

I didn’t want to hear your excuses and I was loosing my nerve

We agreed to have me come back when we were both better

You turned to me and kissed me deeply, letting me feel you falter

I seconded guessed myself and threw caution to the wind

We drove back to the hotel, crying, sober and recovered

And now, after years of surgeries and medical procedures

When I feel that I am going down this path alone

I realize I could truly be alone going through my hell

Waiting for the ticking in my brain to go off

Being in true isolation in the midst of a crowd

I’d have given up, thrown in my lot with death

But I can’t, because you have given me immortality

You have given me my prominent job title Papa

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

Sometimes, writing poetry is a matter of getting outside of your own head, and learning to see the world in a new way. To an extent, you have to “derange” yourself – make the world strange, and see it as a stranger might. To help you do that, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by this animated version of “Seductive Fantasy” by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. If you don’t feel after watching it a little bit like the top of your head’s been taken off, and your thoughts given a good stir – well, maybe you are already living in a state of heightened poetic awareness!

Happy writing, everyone!

If Only A Day

1.       Legs

It’s the wind that lifts you to walk on your toes

Sprinting is the speed needed to take you everywhere you go

No longer trying to understand why your King binds your feet every night

All you know is the stretching of your calves and ankles while you dream

The aches that come in the morning

Hoping that the braces are forgotten for a days repast

One day, breaking free from the restraints

And flying back to whence you have come

2.       Arms

Your wings are masked as the limbs of a girl

Only you know their true composition

Instinct demands their exercise

So you flap them, trying to fulfill their purpose

Why can’t people see what they really are

Is still a mystery to you

So you play ignorant as to why you flap

Its just something you do

When something important strikes you

The mental computer appears just for you

To mark these events so you can revisit them

You are the author of your own future

3.       Eyes

When the world is too much

When everything comes at you at the same time

Your eyes roll back to protect yourself

To see your memories

To see your true home

To see inside your own thoughts

The quick shallow breaths coincide with your eyes

The perfect shade of the sky on a cloudless day

Sparkling when you see Papa

Tearing up when no one understands your ways

4.       Face

Every time I blink or rest for an evening

I see your smile straining to reach from one side to the other

Your cheeks bulge out and are filled with breath

Your eyes squint trying not to let too much in

Its as if your whole face must participate

With any utterance of emotion

My definition of happiness no longer contains words

Just images of the contours and lines and folds of your skin

You, fully embracing whatever emotion strikes

5.       Voice

If I was deaf, I’d still understand you

The force of your words passes through my apathetic soul

When you read and your pitch raises a half octave

Its because you want me to know the performance has started

And when the words come that you don't know or don’t recall

Stubbornly you push through and repeat them until they are mastered

Creating songs out of air about love comes naturally for you

As the wind is your mother

And your breath is your father

6.       Mind

Since you were born

I have tried to fill you with light, beauty, positivity and love

Banishing my demons and the creatures that lurk behind these windows

You seem to know of their existence

And you try to reach through to calm me

It is the touch that I fear most

Not wanting you to be infected by their ravenous hunger

With a word or a look or a fierce hug

You attempt to strangle them and free my soul

To escape the bonds that keep me chained to the ground

Oh to be like you again and to warn of what it is to be me

This is every day with you

And one day you will drag me away

To live inside your thoughts

And know innocence again

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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In today's episode, we will talk about artistic collaboration. I highly recommend collaboration with not only those who share your artistic practice but those from outside your discipline. Now this episode concerns the benefits of collaboration and we will talk about that, but I also will be commenting on some articles I discovered while making this episode that deals with collaboration and how the best artists utilize this to enhance their practice and extend their network.

Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien head instigator of Create Art Podcast where we help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. I do this through commentary, conversations, projects, and interviews, and for 2021 I am doing webstreams for those who would like to watch versus just listening.

Firstly, be discussing my academic theater experience with collaboration on both the good and opportunities for improvement. Likewise, I will also be mentioning my collaboration with Kyle Bondo of Gagglepod Studios and our podcast Podwrecked. This episode is being brought to you today from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library IdeaSpace Studio. Therefore, I have started a new collaboration with them to produce the "regular" episodes from their studio. Most importantly, if your library does not have a maker lab, get involved in helping them make a maker lab like the one we have here.

• Complimentary Skills

• CreativeBloq

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FILM MAKING AS ART

Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien your head instigator at Create Art Podcast where I bring my 20 years in art and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. In 2021 I am rebroadcasting my former podcast KDOI Podcast here so you can catch up on what we have been doing for the past 4 years. KDOI Podcast was my first serious attempt at podcasting after spending many years just creating content without regard to the final product. KDOI started in 2016 and had 3 seasons until I closed it down in 2019. I wanted to make sure that these gems didn't get relegated to my external hard drives, so here you go, there will be interviews, commentary, and projects that you can do for yourself. Enjoy these rebroadcasts and Create More Than You Consume.

Today's guest is my former co-worker and collaborator Kenneth Reed. He originally joined me on Kimo's Den of Iniquity when it was a sketched show during the second reboot period. We also were collaborators with Salsation's Word Up Poetry Slam. During this conversation on Film as Art, we discuss

• Beginnings of Ken's love of comedy

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien head instigator of Create Art Podcast where we help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. I do this through commentary, conversations, projects and interviews and for 2021 I am doing webstreams for those who would like to watch versus just listen.

Today's topic is about art therapy and how it can improve your art practice and your mental state. I will be detailing my experiences with art therapy as both a client and a witness. Since I am not a licensed therapist, I'll be presenting a few articles on the topic to demonstrate how art therapy can help. Lastly, I will go over what it takes to become an art therapist if that is a calling that you have in your life. You don't need a couch for today's episode, but get comfy and listen in as I talk about art therapy.

• Al Woods Flux Magazine 5 Benefits of Art Therapy For Mental Health

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien your head instigator at Create Art Podcast where I bring my 20 years in art and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. In 2021 I am rebroadcasting my former podcast KDOI Podcast here so you can catch up on what we have been doing for the past 4 years. KDOI Podcast was my first serious attempt at podcasting after spending many years just creating content without regard to the final product. KDOI started in 2016 and had 3 seasons until I closed it down in 2019. I wanted to make sure that these gems didn't get relegated to my external hard drives, so here you go, there will be interviews, commentary, and projects that you can do for yourself. Enjoy these rebroadcasts and Create More Than You Consume.

In this episode I talk with my former student and tattoo artist Ashly Hutchins. We discuss her entrance into the tattooing world and how it was vastly different from photography which she studied in college and I first met her. We dive into tattooing tools and a bit on internship and what she calls having a visual eye and how that helps her in her work. Ashly also answers the Satanic 7 questions that i created in season 1 of KDOI and receives a perfect 7 out of 7 correct.

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien head instigator of Create Art Podcast where we help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. I do this through commentary, conversations, projects, and interviews, and for 2021 I am doing webstreams for those who would like to watch versus just listening.

In this episode I talk about the benefits for setting up goals for your art and how I am doing this with the podcast. Some of the benefits are:

• More Productivity

• Setting Goals for Artists by Carrie L Lewis

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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IMPROV AS ART

Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien your head instigator at Create Art Podcast where I bring my 20 years in art and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. In 2021 I am rebroadcasting my former podcast KDOI Podcast here so you can catch up on what we have been doing for the past 4 years. KDOI Podcast was my first serious attempt at podcasting after spending many years just creating content without regard to the final product. KDOI started in 2017 and had 3 seasons until I closed it down in late 2019. I wanted to make sure that these gems didn't get relegated to my external hard drives, so here you go, there will be interviews, commentary, and projects that you can do for yourself. Enjoy these rebroadcasts and Create More Than You Consume.

Welcome to the past with KDOI Podcast rebroadcasts. This interview with Nelson Velazquez was the very first interview for KDOI Podcasting. We had a great time catching up and talking about projects that he was doing at the time back in 2017. This was a fun interview with Nelson and he really showed off his improv skills with me as we riffed off eachother the whole time. Enjoy this rebroadcast and connect with Nelson and his improv teams.

• Our beginnings with Vet Art Project

• Salsation

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