by Katherine Torrini | Feb 20, 2013 | CREATIVE INSPIRATION, POETRY, UNSTUCK
February 2013 has been a big one for me in many ways–being out in the spotlight, collaborating with other amazing teachers, and trusting that what wants to emerge in my life is what I am here to do! This poem spilled out at the beginning of the month and...
by Katherine Torrini | Apr 22, 2012 | CREATIVE INSPIRATION, POETRY
listen to the leaves calling and cajoling, leading you astray beckoning you come away from your desk today. do not delay. listen and obey. listen to the leaves chattering and clattering to join them in the glade, leaves that jiggle, giggle, wriggle, rustle,...
by Katherine Torrini | Nov 30, 2011 | CREATIVE INSPIRATION, POETRY
quiet river, slipping past. a symphony of beauty, playing all the time. trickling, tinkling, gurgling, gushing; meandering down its path. no director, script or score, no curtain call and queerer still– no audience at all. The story: I wrote this poem...
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by Katherine Torrini | May 8, 2011 | CREATIVE INSPIRATION, POETRY
I’ve worked with many a Closet Creative who is a mother. Her greatest fear is that choosing her own path amounts to abandoning her children. By moving forward despite her fear and claiming her own dreams anyway, there always comes an incredible moment of...
by Katherine Torrini | Apr 5, 2011 | CREATIVE INSPIRATION, POETRY
Buds you wake, deep within the bark, while we still think it’s winter you somehow know, to start your work before the world outside seems ready you somehow trust the coming of the sun, undeterred by winter’s darkest, coldest hours what memory! what timing!...
by Katherine Torrini | Mar 10, 2010 | POETRY, UNSTUCK
Demon demon in my head Leave me alone! Get outta my bed! I could sleep in peace but you come in war slithering darkly ‘cross my floor. I’m tired. I’m wired. panic is coursing through my veins. my heart is gripped by primal fear of what?...
