Creativity and Cycles

It came as a great relief when I stopped fighting it and finally accepted my natural cycles of creativity. Fall, winter and spring are such creative seasons that I've learned to use summer as a chance to let the well re-fill itself. To tell my muse to go sit by the pool with a margarita.

But, every so often, usually just after I tell someone that I'm taking the summer off, my muse will pinch me on the arm and a poem will appear.

Today was one of those days.

Luckily, my writing group meets this week, so I actually now have something fresh to show them. Hurrah!

And I am willing to accept this "taking a break from taking a break" as part of my creativity cycle.

Do you have a creativity cycle? When did you finally accept it?