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Question: What is your opinion of my thingy on writing poetry!?
On Writing Poetry
by Elaine Polin

Poetry
does not flow
from brain
to fingertips!.

Words must be
changed
arranged
exchanged!.

At the end
most of them
must be
trashed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Will you teach me your ways O' wise lady!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

I will see, hear, read, or think of something, an idea forms, then a story appears in my mind, much like a video!. Once I finish watching the video, I put it on paper!. Usually I only edit due to typos or some other foolish reason I put words where I didn't intend them to be!. The poem usually forms in my mind one or two lines at a time, and that is how they are put down!. When in a mood like this, I will tend to think in rhyme, and either in ballad stanza or tetrameter couplets, and the biggest problem I encounter is to keep it consistent and switch back and forth!. Sometimes after reading it aloud I will rearrange words or change something, but not often!. Maybe if I did, I would get better!.

Edit:
I don't think what I write is all that good, and am proud that others like it a bit!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sometimes, when the Muse is upon me!.!.!.!.poetry does flow straight from the brain to the fingertips!. It's getting it down before it all disappears which is the hard part!.!.!.and usually, I don't manage it and have to finish the poem by myself!.!.!.which is where the change, arrange, exchange bit comes in!.
And a poem can start off as one thing and become something completely different in the end!. I reckon, if ever I was stupid enough to attempt to write a novel!.!.!.I would be as surprised as the next man about how it all ends!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I will remember the wise words in this thingy when writing my own poetry!. Sometimes I am amazed at how the poem I start with and the poem I end with after changing, arranging, and exchanging can end up being so different!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

You are correct A+ for the teach and a shiny crisp apple!.
One of the reasons I keep an ample supply of paper in the house, most ends up in recycle!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Can I borrow some words!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well said! Especially the last stanza!.!.!.at least for me lately!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

So I'm beginning to learn!.!.!.stay tuned!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ha Ha! Very much correct!. I've made fun of the technicians, but, in reality, they are doing it right!.!.!.just not very well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com