What do you think about?
- MrDSpade2posted 13 years ago
0 - china manposted 13 years ago0
- ralwusposted 13 years ago0
- MrDSpade2posted 13 years ago0
I don't do "big, serious" poetry, so maybe I shouldn't even answer. What I do like doing, though, is running into some title for a poem and challenging myself with what I can come up. (If I go to Helium to rate and see a poem title, I'll often just see what I can come up. So, I'm kind of "writing backwards" - from the title someone else thought up, rather than from some inspiration that sprung from within me.)
I don't have a shred of creativity in me (honest), so I don't see images or any of that stuff. For me, it's all about letting the words lead to the next words, while I'm trying to think of the effect each line will have in contributing to the feeling of the poem. I'll start with one line, and let that one lead to the next. Those two lines will usually start to make a feeling of the poem start to "gel". That helps me know where I want to go next. By the third line, where I'm going, and what feeling I'm hoping the reader will get, have become pretty clear. That's the guide for the whole rest of the poem. I do think music as I'm writing. It helps develop some kind of rhythm as the "back-drop" (even though the reader won't ever "hear" it
).- ahorsebackposted 13 years ago0
- ralwusposted 13 years ago0
I'm now thinking about farting peas at the moon. wot talent.
Can't think 'cause I'm laughing too hard from Ralwus!!! 
- Asking myself where have I put the nearest pen and a piece of paper ?
- If I am not writing at the time on the PC.
I use to think when the lines of poetry came in to my mind that I would remember them later.
I know now that if I do not write them down quickly something will distract me and I will lose the flow of thought before I capture the words; once lost they are usually gone forever.
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