Do you sit down to deliberately write it or just grab it when it suddenly hits you?
The answer for me is all of the above.
I keep a notebook where I jot ideas, phrases, words or feelings throughout some days and sometimes at night.
They may gestate in my mind for a day, a week or a month.
Then I will sit down, comb through them, play with them and try to form them into a meaningful poem.
Other times if I have a deadline, I'll sit down and wait for the muse to appear. I may carefully and deliberately grind out what looks like a pretty good poem and then at the end---reject it and write something with a totally different theme.
Claire,
ReplyDeleteI love your words about how you write a poem. The feel of your blog is clean, pretty and inviting.
Love,
Cynthia