 Poetry: March 21, 2018 Issue [#8813] |
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This week: Why Write a Poem? Edited by: Fyn-elf  
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ~~Emily Dickinson
It's not easy to define poetry. ~~Bob Dylan
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~~John Keats
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. ~~Franz Grillparzer
Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. ~~Edward Hirsch
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. ~~William Rose Benet
Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye. ~~Donald Hall
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Okay. So why commit to write a poem a day for the month? Because you can. Because it is good practice.
Practice? Absolutely. The writing craft is not so very different from a medical 'practice' or practicing law. We practice, learn and grow. Being a poet is not an end: it is always a beginning and a journey. One may be a published poet but that does not imply one simply is as a poet's walk is unending and full of new inspirations and ideas.
It is an exercise in making yourself be creative, it is good practice to get in the habit of writing every single day. Not merely when inspired. By writing every day, one has to work at it, one has to not simply 'be' inspired, but one has to get into that creative alley and stay there. It gives you a measure of what you can actually do. It is a challenge! Personally, I can't wait! Any excuse to have to write is pure joy!
Look at it as a way to stretch your creative legs and fingers, to exercise your craft and to find new pathways to meander along! Perhaps you can try a different form or three. Perhaps you can venture into a different style of poetry or discover a new method to approaching your writing. Maybe you will try alliteration, personification or even 'found' poetry. A fun idea to to take fifteen different lines or phrases from fifteen different poems you've written and create something entirely new from them.
Playing with words is the writer's meat and potatos. Cook yourself up a poetic feast! Bake yourself a poetic tirimisu! Devise yourself a new word cocktail and imbibe the nectar of alternative word choices!
Free yourself to allow those juices to bubble forth and surprise yourself. Sure, it is a commitment. Yes, it takes time. Oh, but tis truly worth it!
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Elle - on hiatus  says: Your newsletters always inspire me. Thank you! 
Awww ... thanks! *big smiles*
Ren the Klutz!  writes: Robert Frost was right and I am way out of practice. Thanks for the reminder.
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