08-29-2024, 11:11 AM
1. I love words and I love ideas. Most of my adult life has been spent trying to convey information as efficiently and accurately as possible with a minimum of ambiguity. There isn't room for alternate interpretation of what is written. That only leads to confusion. Poetry, for me, is an exploration of ambiguity; how two different things might be true at the same time. Poetry also explores the unexpected connection of seemingly disparate realities/ideas or the new in old ideas. Poetry is a distillation of the pleasure and pain of a complex existence made beautiful.
2. I don't like writing poetry. I have to write poetry. All of my writing starts as myriad ideas/observations/random thoughts swirling in my head; a nebula that occasionally spits out some coalescence that takes further form like an embryo from Alien eventually bursting out messily onto the page. I do my best to raise it right before I send it out into the world. Okay, I do like it a little. Don't we all love our children, no matter how imperfect? And I don't mind whipping out the family album for those dumb enough to ask.
3. I love words and ideas and the possibility that I might create something that adds to this world, even if by accident.
2. I don't like writing poetry. I have to write poetry. All of my writing starts as myriad ideas/observations/random thoughts swirling in my head; a nebula that occasionally spits out some coalescence that takes further form like an embryo from Alien eventually bursting out messily onto the page. I do my best to raise it right before I send it out into the world. Okay, I do like it a little. Don't we all love our children, no matter how imperfect? And I don't mind whipping out the family album for those dumb enough to ask.
3. I love words and ideas and the possibility that I might create something that adds to this world, even if by accident.