Workshop participants have commented on how quickly writing about an object can turn into writing about oneself – a porthole into our unconscious, reflective selves.

An exercise gave the writing group a small box with a delicately woven birds nest inside. This was used as a simple prompt to write – and to see what emerged.

 

 

NEST

Interwoven pieces; twig and stick

and nylon thread. Brittle leaf;

Crafted by an unknown architect –

the pull of nature, guiding wing

and beak, the landscape waking up

but also bare, and bleak.

 

A flurry of activity, a signal to the spring

Creation, feathering, new life –

contained within this fragile, sturdy thing.