03-02-2012, 07:25 AM
I don't think I've had my six points, so:
1) I have found it easiest, to have some particular metre in my head, so that, when I think of anything, words tumble happily into their proper slots.
2) Watch out for ideas which come simultaneously, but really are not one poem, but two. Conversely, sometimes, two seemingly quite different things which pop into the mind, can form fascinating strands of poems which may continue to mystify me for a long while, but which have something.
1) I have found it easiest, to have some particular metre in my head, so that, when I think of anything, words tumble happily into their proper slots.
2) Watch out for ideas which come simultaneously, but really are not one poem, but two. Conversely, sometimes, two seemingly quite different things which pop into the mind, can form fascinating strands of poems which may continue to mystify me for a long while, but which have something.