How do you write your poems?

Beth, all I can say is I don't know what 'writers block' is.

If something comes, and I'm not around pencil, I use mnemonic devices to remember, if it's a good idea, that is.

Do you ever feel writing a lyric takes a bit of life from you?

Edit--It's just when you least expect it--those are the best. I do practice in descriptive writing (remember my poem about the cardboard box?).

Isn't it funny that what you like yourself, no one else does. I don't get it. My drafts remain busy, though, and my delete button is wearing down.

I just finished another villanelle. I could post it for an hour.

It's a combination of ab-libbing, setting off a chain reaction.

Ive composed the middle or ending of a poem, then built around it.

Sometimes a poem grows from a single line.

Often its a fragment, a feeling I remember from my past.

Often it's the residue

Very few poems are intended to be about me personally,

but my psyche naturally channels in.

Almost always it's someone I've come in contact with.

I never use a thesaurus or dictionary but do use a rhyming dictionary.

Generally, some abstract concept will be seeding itself in me

so I find a title

and take it from there,

often displeased or surprised or amused at its` development..

Sometimes it`s something I`ve been dwelling upon at another time, or now.

Different now the pc rather than the pen -

more ad-hoc.

I re-write, from the c/c`s I`m glad to have, if I consider

the result`s worthy of improvement for the book.

I tire quickly and then `run on empty` (you`ve doubtless seen those!).

Many emotion-thought-seeds waft from you all here.

And this is it, Beth.

xxx

I often admire people who are able to re-purpose things. People who take ordinary objects and use them in such a clever and unique way that it almost exceeds the usefulness of its original intention.

Or chefs that can use the very same ingredients that I have in my pantry to create the most amazing food.

I write simply because I love words. I love how you can bend and shape the way words sound or twist their meaning. I'm intrigued by the arrangement of words and how their effectiveness is so greatly affected by the order in which they are placed, or by the way they are associated.

Words are melodic, percussive, invoke thought, movement, and arouse feelings and senses in ways that are almost magical.

Most people read poetry the same way they read the newspaper; completely unaware an unprepared. When I write, I try to present an idea in an unexpected way.

Beth I just write what's in my heart , then go Pi-ff Puff Pow . Post 'Magic'.LOL. whatever .

if It's good our bad, who cares I just say what when and where and how it has a definition of it's own

and only I no what that is LOL ... Smiles to you Beth have a nice Day :)

I sprinkle birdseed on the keyboard and let in a few blue jays...

sometimes I'll write pages and pages of anything

then sift through it to find a general theme

to create a story,

sometimes I'll hear a line in my head and proceed

to write from that

sometimes it is much easier I write about something

I've lived

Sometimes I write something down then come back

to it days or weeks later

You know I can do both but the difference in writing from the clear running stream, or pulling it from the murk at the bottom of the pond ; or the chunks I retrieve frozen in the freezer to try to chip away at and sculpture into something better.

Whatever way it ends upp just evaporating anyway, and therefore the poems others write when we are long gone will be from the same source, the poetic waters of emotion and thought....

Good question, and I think my muse and moods are sometimes fused.

Scattered scraps often, not traps, offer me

puzzle pieces to fit together, needing to be

sensed into a form that suits.

Rarely if ever a precognitive motive

but so often drawn from my historical realities

I live in and through my inner child as much as I live in the now.

Well for me I write romantic love poems so usually when I fancy someone it comes to me, but sometimes I see a word in a sentence, or hear a word in a song, I just form a sentence I could use for a poem, then two (some rhyme some down) then next thing I know, I have a poem on my phone (I'm usually on the move and have my phone on hand)

Rhyming is just easy for me sometimes

Btw good luck in your future poetry writing