09-08-2012, 11:04 AM
You're writing poems because your happiness inspires them and they make you happy. So they're not shite. I'm writing crazy poems for crazy people, so I happily use a stereotype of crazy people smearing shit on walls or windows. The sadness comes in because crazy people drive each other crazy, so they don't have time to read each other's poems. My muse is a crazy lady, and it feels like I'm sending prayers to an absent god when I write of her. But all my poems aren't about her. But even so, sometimes I sneak her in like near the end of the Food Stamps one. I should have named this thread Philosophy If Any In Books (or Poems). I'm still "preaching" the notion of poetry as immanent in life. Poetry as the spirit of things, not just the reading and writing, which is what you said about what you see is what you get. You also said that life is the poem. But sometimes the poem is a woman, and you don't have to always understand them to love them.---Back to the tower, Leanne said there's no concrete clues about her life in her poems, so I remarked that she was sending them down from a tower. I worded it the way I did because I like to play the fool in front of women. I subtly compliment her appearance in another thread, and say she's brilliant in this one, and then she breaks a ruler over my head. That's my routine.