Article Source: The Positive Observer

Consider all the things that you have lived this past year. All the things you have seen. All the things that you have known. All you have been and all you are now.

With pen in hand or fingers positioned over your keypad, reflect back over this past year. Consider past moments and the opportunities to find creative material to write a poem or song. The context of your choices will provide insight of where you were, where you are now and the journey between both points in time.

Find the words that best describe you and your experiences. Let your art be something that you will pass along to your children and their children. Let the words and lyrics reflect on  what you have been and what you are now. What are the lessons and the learnings? Convey your new found messages on what you now know are important in your immediate life and the life around you.

Now consider composing another poem or song at the beginning of each year. That's right, the beginning. Find your heart song. Saturate the prose with imagination, intensity and focus. Recite or sing the words throughout the year as a reminder, but be open to add additional lines as new experiences and accomplishments reveal themselves.

Do this exercise for yourself. Do this for your children. Poetry and music, whether spoken or sung, represent our many worldly cultures. Both speak and contain our histories and choices over the millenniums. They speak of our individual souls as well as our collective experiences.