09-05-2012, 04:15 AM
(09-04-2012, 11:49 PM)rowens Wrote: Are you more likely to start out writing a poem for the sake of practicing the craft, or to advance and better express themes of importance than run through your life?Either. Both. The one leads to the other -- the more ability you have with the craft of writing, the more easily the words will fit into whatever vessel you choose for them, and the better equipped you are to choose that vessel.
Why only themes of importance? You never know where poetry might be found. And why the poet's life? I'm not writing an autobiography. No. I write poetry because I can't paint, but if I could paint, I wouldn't always be trying to fit pictures into a gallery. It would be whatever, for whomever, whenever -- the collation can come later, when I'm dead and don't care anymore.
It could be worse