by Maxima Kahn | Aug 24, 2022 | Creative Sparks, Dream Creation, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
My friend Curt died a couple of weeks ago. I learned about it on Facebook and was stunned. Curt was a heart-centered, caring soul and helped me in many ways over the years. He was a person I could trust to be honest, authentic, and to listen deeply. He could also be... 
by Maxima Kahn | Mar 4, 2020 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
Dancing near the edge For over a month now I have been working on a poem called “Tango Near the Edge,” and in the end, it might not be any good. I am writing it in response to a very complex prompt I found in a book of difficult writing prompts called Challenges for... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jan 16, 2020 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
When we make art, we aren’t destroying. We are uniting, rather than dividing. When we create, we find and build connections between things, instead of separation. We knit pieces of the world together. We hold up the beauty, magic and magnificence of the world, so that... 
by Maxima Kahn | Nov 7, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
Everyone is creative. Or, creativity is reserved for the special few, for artists. Which is it? Like most debates, in which the sides are polarized, there is truth in each. Everyone is Creative Everyone is creative. You would not be alive without creativity. You use... 
by Maxima Kahn | Apr 23, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
I come to poetry… Asking to be relieved of the pain inside, the unspoken. Asking to be met in the hollows of my heart, in my seeing and feeling of the world. Asking for beauty and imagination, for care and caring, for brute truth and grace. Asking to be let in from...
