When I feel like writing a poem I just sit down and write a poem.
I don’t think about the poem except when I’m writing it.
After the poem is done I think a lot about the poem.
I never read my own poetry until after I’m done thinking about my own poetry. Then I read my own poetry.
When I sit down to write a poem I like to stand up!
Standing up is the best way to sit down and write a poem.
I have to write poems. If I don’t
write poems I do other things like I go swimming. I’ll go swimming for a long time. I’ll do that every day.
I love swimming. I think I love
it more than poetry.
When I’m done writing a poem I send it to a newspaper. I send it to a newspaper right after I’m done
with it. I usually never finish my
poems. I have written very few of
them. The ones I do write I find are not
very good and I don’t have the courage to send them to newspapers.
When a poem gets published I make sure to understand what it has
done. I doubt poetry has ever really
done much of anything,
but it’s important to know how little a poem has done because then you realise how little there is to do about that.
Of course, if there´s nothing meaningful to say, then you project your own inclinations on everyone else. By all means write, but don´t “assume”, because you clearly don´t” know” other writers (and readers) ´inclinations.
By guida from Lisbon on 15 Aug 2022, 04:51