Where do poems come from?
I attended a conference to female writers in Louisville once. I listened to a young lady telling, how she had wanted to write a poem about someone else’s feelings and thoughts in a certain life sit...
I attended a conference to female writers in Louisville once. I listened to a young lady telling, how she had wanted to write a poem about someone else’s feelings and thoughts in a certain life situation. She had studied articles and videos on a topic to get the inspiration for the poem.
I remember how surprised I had been. Her method of writing poems was completely different from mine. My poems come to me out of blue. No premeditation, no studies. Yes, my poems are prompted by something that I see, hear, read or even think. But it is more like a geyser, a strong emotion with words bubbling in my mind. My mind gets no peace before I write them down.
I have been in a middle of a phone conversation, when some of the spoken words started a stream of words in my mind. I had no choice, but to end the call and explain later, perhaps with the poem that resulted.
Sometimes I have been driving on the road by myself, when I have seen or heard something that had opened the flood gates. Thank heavens for speech-to-text.