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and post notes and photos about your poem like Susan Manley.
In 2001, when I decided to leave my marriage of 12 years, and made friends with my then boss... I shared poetry with him. He was going through a hard decision making process and a divorce and I tried to show him my coping mechanism. He was astounded. We shared writing back and forth and it brought us close. We were never lovers, but we were good friends and shared thoughts and emotional things on a deep level.
Somewhere in the exchange with this friend... the poetry just started to "flow" from me. It would come out in perfect rhyme, complete thoughts with no editing. As if my subconscious self had just spouted. I had gotten into true right brain flow. It is really powerful incidentally. I wrote "Path of contemplation" and "Trust" in such a state. Trust was written in live chat with DrDave. I think I blew a fuse in his brain. LOL
Now I don't think my poetry is the bee's knees for artistic achievement. But I have been told by many an admirer that what I say, and the way I say it connects very deeply for them. It has great meaning. I honestly didn't know if what I said was "any good."
So how do you write poetry? Just do it... Eventually you will get to the meat of the subject, I assure you. And when you do, you might find your inner thoughts and feelings waiting there to be discovered.
OH! one last thing.... The requiem was about the sale and death of a company.... I wanted to put that into some context for anyone that took it too literally.
Context is another topic for the blog though... something I need to think about.
( written for Gemi and Sally )
- Artimus (reprint from over in blogs, I wanted to post the Poem with some context.