Tag: listen

• Invoking the Blank Page

  

  I am looking to you, Blank Page, for help. I awoke today with Worry. While I was able to slough off the morning blanket, Worry persisted its shroud about me. An invisible source secures a tight hold around the top of my head. It clamps the innards of my chest. The cinches have been there…

  Dan Metzger

  August 24, 2015

  Essay, Mental Health

  anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blank page, communication, composition, creative writing, depression, fear, hope, listen, love, mental health, mental illness, mercy, self-acceptance, self-discovery, self-reflection, therapy, woe, worry, write, writer’s block, writing

• Perpetual Discovery

  

  Seize each breath with the satisfaction of knowing that newness is around each and every bend in the day. Pull the air in deeply. Expel it in due rhythm. Attune yourself to the lyrics of the song you’ve never listened to close enough to realize how precisely they describe your current situation. Imprint to your…

  Dan Metzger

  July 4, 2015

  Essay, Rudimentary Philosophy

  companionship, creative writing, discovery, friendship, happiness, listen, look, love, mantra, music, nature, reflection, self, song

• Attic

  

  All day I have been hearing jazz faintly playing in my room. It does not seep through the wall nor does it rise from the chambers below. The riffs are generated within my mind. My ears glimpse phantom sound waves—unseen, invisible. Their nonexistence will startle me any longer. For I am a music box of…

  Dan Metzger

  April 23, 2015

  Essay, Rudimentary Philosophy

  art, attic, books, creative writing, days, Fiction, future, inspire, jazz, life, listen, memory, movement, music, past, progress, prufrock, read, routine, self-improvement, wallpaper, write, writing