Life is complex, how we interact with each other, the world around us, how the stars pinwheel over our heads in the sky. All the interactions and history of what’s gone before.

Within the complexities balances are shifted by the smallest of actions with far reaching effects.

This on these things – maybe go and look up chaos theory or read a history book. Let the ideas settle in.

Draw the word complexity in the middle of a piece of paper and then write five words around it that you now associate with complexity. The use of boxes or bubbles around the words can be very helpful as can coloured pens. Around each of the five words write another three words that you associate with that particular word.

If you have space you might want to do another set of words.

Now look and see if any of the words are connected to each other and not just the word that made you think about them. Draw the links – you are creating a complex word web.

Once you are finished use this as a map for creating a poem.

Look at the words and how they interact with each other – now write!