How do you write poetry?

[Leanne]

I write in pretty much the same fashion as Todd, only I pretty much never rinse

I've always found that a keen sense of the ridiculous serves the poet well.  I have some pretty odd phrases saved in my documents, things that come to me at odd times and I feel I should save them for later.  Later, I look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking.  A selection, which will henceforth be known as Exhibit A:

We are the genetic dispossessed

Haecceity: what is your prime indivisible

I wore cool before it was black

I sit in splendid sobriety

In the anal passages of a unicorn


Yeah, I don't think I can take responsibility for my scribbles.  Sometimes they turn into things I'm quite happy with though.  I had It nestles in the elbow of the breeze sitting around for a couple of years before I turned it into milo's Fey sonnet.  

One thing I've learned:  never throw anything away, no matter how bizarre you think it is.