What is your opinion of my thingy on writing poetry?
On Writing Poetry
by Elaine Polin
Poetry
does not flow
from brain
to fingertips.
Words must be
changed
arranged
exchanged.
At the end
most of them
must be
trashed.
DM: You have plenty of your own.
As I have said before, Dondi is the exception to the rule. He breathes poetry.
- Elaine P…is for Poetry
Tags: Elaine, Exception To The Rule, Fingertips, Poetry Writing, Writing Poetry
July 1st, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I will remember the wise words in this thingy when writing my own poetry. Sometimes I am amazed at how the poem I start with and the poem I end with after changing, arranging, and exchanging can end up being so different.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Ha Ha! Very much correct. I’ve made ***?n of the technicians, ****?, in reality, they are doing it right…just not very well.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Well said! Especially the last stanza…at least for me lately.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Can I borrow some words?
July 8th, 2009 at 5:58 am
So I’m beginning to learn…stay tuned!
July 10th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
You are correct A+ for the teach and a ****?ny crisp apple.
One of the reasons I keep an ample supply of paper in the house, most ends up in recycle.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Sometimes, when the Muse is upon me….poetry does flow straight from the brain to the fingertips. It’s getting it down before it all disappears which is the hard part…and usually, I don’t manage it and have to finish the poem by myself…which is where the change, arrange, exchange bit comes in.
And a poem can start off ***? one thing and become something completely different in the end. I reckon, if ever I was stupid enough to attempt to write a novel…I would be ***? surprised ***? the next man about how it all ends.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I will ***?e, hear, read, or think of something, an idea forms, then a story appears in my mind, much like a video. Once I finish watching the video, I put it on paper. Usually I only edit due to typos or some other foolish reason I put words where I didn’t intend them to be. The poem usually forms in my mind one or two lines at a ***?me, and that is how they are put down. When in a mood like this, I will tend to think in rhyme, and either in ballad stanza or tetrameter couplets, and the biggest problem I encounter is to keep it consistent and switch back and forth. Sometimes after reading it aloud I will rearrange words or change something, ****? not often. Maybe if I did, I would get better.
Edit:
I don’t think what I write is all that ****?d, and am proud that others like it a bit.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Will you teach me your ways O’ wise lady?