02-26-2013, 08:42 PM
I was thinking, today and recently, that I only write the same poem again and again and again.
they look different but infact they are the same, and the same symbols crop up, because the poems are me, and I have the same symbols.
I was considering another thread that I saw here about editing, I am not keen on editing, I simply write the same, unrecogniseable except to me perhaps, poem.
And one day I will publish a body of work that will be 47 versions, perhaps I will call it evolution.
and this is normal I think actually.
settle? ooh no mrs. Is there a final version that will be the distallation of myself on a page? Will there be spiders? I am almost certain it will have a confusion of senses, a tongue that will not be tamed and that I will be unhappy with it.
Well unless the final miracle arrives and I discover that I am infact perfect.
they look different but infact they are the same, and the same symbols crop up, because the poems are me, and I have the same symbols.
I was considering another thread that I saw here about editing, I am not keen on editing, I simply write the same, unrecogniseable except to me perhaps, poem.
And one day I will publish a body of work that will be 47 versions, perhaps I will call it evolution.
and this is normal I think actually.
settle? ooh no mrs. Is there a final version that will be the distallation of myself on a page? Will there be spiders? I am almost certain it will have a confusion of senses, a tongue that will not be tamed and that I will be unhappy with it.
Well unless the final miracle arrives and I discover that I am infact perfect.
(02-22-2013, 11:36 PM)rowens Wrote: Despite it all, I'm more interested in people and atmosphere than words. The philosophy, psychology and sometimes even religion of a poem or story or whatever. I'm more interested in a body of work than individual poems. In what a man or woman, or sometimes man-woman, or thing, is saying about things. As far as style and form and good and bad art come into that, I'm interested. Plenty people know how to make that call. It seems that many poems are good because other people say they are, even though I don't think so, and so I have to say "Well, that's what good can look like."
Most of the time I settle to have my poems feel to me like extensions of myself and other people and things I know of. So they're usually crude, awkward and bent; even if I spend weeks making them that way. And considering that a lot of my stories are about the mundane, everyday lives of mutants and abominations, I think that it makes sense philosophically.
But I never feel settled, I always feel them gnawing at me for various reasons.
But I'm sure nobody's interested in my bastard accounts of style and technique.