This was super interesting - thank you! I related so much to several aspects, like letting words express the subconscious, even unknown thoughts, bringing expression to what was otherwise inexpressible.
But learning to let the "instincts" of the poetry process take the wheel was also fascinating, and not trying to force my original thoughts on it. While I do this to some extent, I feel like your article gave me more permission to let it flow unharnessed - I'll have to practice that more often and give it a try.
Taking time to simply sit and listen to the silence often provides pearls of thought that turn into poems.... but oh, the simply sitting and listening! Life bombards the best of us, the most of us.
Thank you for all these other ways of listening, Luke.
Thank you for the call to pay attention. The words do lead both writer and reader [in poetry, speaker and listener] to see their version of the picture. Maybe the composing poet needs to choose which word (of several options) to use according to how well it leads to the picture already imaged in the poem.
This was super interesting - thank you! I related so much to several aspects, like letting words express the subconscious, even unknown thoughts, bringing expression to what was otherwise inexpressible.
But learning to let the "instincts" of the poetry process take the wheel was also fascinating, and not trying to force my original thoughts on it. While I do this to some extent, I feel like your article gave me more permission to let it flow unharnessed - I'll have to practice that more often and give it a try.
Taking time to simply sit and listen to the silence often provides pearls of thought that turn into poems.... but oh, the simply sitting and listening! Life bombards the best of us, the most of us.
Thank you for all these other ways of listening, Luke.
So well said!
Thank you for the call to pay attention. The words do lead both writer and reader [in poetry, speaker and listener] to see their version of the picture. Maybe the composing poet needs to choose which word (of several options) to use according to how well it leads to the picture already imaged in the poem.