12-21-2015, 10:51 PM
In pencil, in a stenographer's notebook.
At the breakfast table, over the second cup of coffee, or
Sitting on the porch, drinking water with a little lime while birdwatching, or
Sitting on a green metal chair in the middle of a pine forest, on a hill, wearing a straw hat.
(Followed by weeks or months of revisions on a word processor.)
As for rhyme, meter, and forms,they're like constantly painting yourself into a corner, or working a crossword puzzle where you're allowed to change the right answers retrospectively so the word you want to use, fits.
Is writing poetry a process of creating cliches that haven't caught on yet?
At the breakfast table, over the second cup of coffee, or
Sitting on the porch, drinking water with a little lime while birdwatching, or
Sitting on a green metal chair in the middle of a pine forest, on a hill, wearing a straw hat.
(Followed by weeks or months of revisions on a word processor.)
As for rhyme, meter, and forms,they're like constantly painting yourself into a corner, or working a crossword puzzle where you're allowed to change the right answers retrospectively so the word you want to use, fits.
Is writing poetry a process of creating cliches that haven't caught on yet?
Non-practicing atheist