他山之石 | 创造力练习：描述天空

用诗歌实现乡村孩子自由的情感表达 | 第 304 期

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他山之石，为“是光”新的固定栏目。通过定期翻译国外关于现代诗歌的朗读、创作、活动的文章，实现诗歌更大程度上的探索和借鉴推广。

这个练习是著名的儿童诗人Kenn Nesbitt专门教给孩子们的。用一种实践性很强的方式教会孩子们一种生命的美学。诗歌不是来源于思维的抽象，而是对自然的观察，对生命的体验。重要的是，每次的观察和表述都要是新的，就像时间从不回流。

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Writers often say that your brain is a bit like a muscle—the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. It’s good to give yourself some regular mental exercises to help build your creativity over time, so your poetry will keep developing and improving. (The good news is that brain exercises don’t make you ache as much as push-ups!)

作家经常说你的大脑有点像肌肉 - 你锻炼的越多，它就越强大。给自己做一些常规的大脑练习可以帮助塑造创造力，从而让你的诗歌不断进步 。（好消息是，大脑锻炼不会让你像做完俯卧撑一样肌肉痛！）

A great exercise that doesn’t need any special equipment—and that you can do anywhere at any time—is to describe the color of the sky.

Sounds really simple, right?!

Well, it can be simple to begin with, but the reason this exercise works so well is because your descriptions can become more and more elaborate as your creative muscles get stronger. The idea is to make sure every description is different!

一个不需要任何特殊装备，又可以随时随地做得好的运动是描述天空的颜色。

听起来很简单吧？！

嗯，开始时似乎很简单，但这个练习效果好是因为随着你的“创造性肌肉”变得更强壮，你的描述会变得越来越精细。要让每次的描述都不同！

When you start, you might just be able to come up with one word at a time. Luckily, the sky is always changing, so even if you do this exercise every day, you will still have lots of different colors and moods to describe.

A bonus is that, as well as strengthening your creativity and imagination, you will also be working out your powers of observation. You will start to be able to see and pay attention to the difference between one blue sky and another; to notice when one gray seems gentle and one seems hard; to spot all the different shades of pink, orange, purple, yellow or red (or even green!) that appear; to recognize similarities to other objects.

刚开始时，你可能一次只能想到一个单词。幸运的是，天空总是在变化，所以即使你每天都做这个训练，你仍然有很多不同的颜色和情绪可以被用来描述。

除了加强你的创造力和想象力，这个练习的另一个好处是可以训练观察力。你会开始注意到一片蓝天与另一片蓝天之间的差异; 或者注意到一个灰色看起来很温柔，一个看起来很坚硬; 发现不同色调的粉色、橙色、紫色、黄色或红色（甚至是绿色）; 识别出来天空与其他物体的相似之处。

Some of my favorite skies have been:

The sky that was yellowish-gray like unwashed sports socks

The sky like fields of dandelions

The sky like the opening credits of the Simpsons

The sky like clouded dark chocolate

The sky that was racing away

我最喜欢的一些天空是：

•像未洗过的运动袜一样的是黄灰色的天空

•天空像蒲公英的田野

•天空就像辛普森一家的片头（注：动画片片头）

•天空像乌云密布的黑巧克力

•奔驰而过的天空

Don’t worry if you sometimes feel like you’re stuck! That is the moment to keep searching for a description. When you find the right one you will feel like you’ve made a real breakthrough!

如果你有时觉得自己被卡住了，别担心！这时候你可以继续搜索好的表述。当你找到合适的表达时，你会感到真正的突破！

If you want to write down your descriptions in a notebook so you can use them in the future you can, but the most important thing is to flex those creativity muscles, and stretch your powers of description!

如果你想在笔记本上写下你对天空的描述，留着将来使用当然是可以的。但最重要的是去锻炼创造力的肌肉，并扩展你的描述力。

译者·何靖莹

美国威斯康星大学社会学博士在读，喜欢艺术和哲学。

Source: https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/creativity-exercise-describe-the-sky

插画 | 法国艺术家 Thomas Lamadieu 

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