How do you usually go about writing your poems?

I miss you bro! It has been a long time. I listen to the narrative format of epic poems such as Don Juan or Beowulf, and I here the themes such as Benchwarmers by Gucci Mane for my classic piece the Voided Gleam (check it out sometime in the archives), and write hard. My two new pieces, have the Swordsman's theme by GZA of the Wu-Tang clan, see if they match up well! My process is rhyming and pathos yet ethos blends, with a *****-anglo saxon dialectic. Peace!!! Swordsmen theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32Fs_W1NjA , feel the tone of longing, yet sorrow, but wisdom, in the verses! :D

A Lost Quartz and an Odd Blaze

Upon the broken hills inching moss,

There is a lone pillar's ashen gloss,

Before the vintage ivory stretches,

Where Peace pulsed upon scepters,

When suns' erected wintry tombs,

On the brinks of the scythe moons,

Before they roved a pinned grove,

By the gliding of blushing Love,

To set her liniments bleached shadow,

Under the flexing of dyes on his tower,

Beyond the North's patient night,

Around a poled Dragon's coaled sigh.

Love Unto The Evening Sun (Venus)

By Daniel Mapp

When lone December sprinkles all,

The sycamore's wrinkles trembles

As the tumbling streams mutters,

He ripples upon the azure of a line,

Towards the piping of a hazel clime,

Before that wisping eyes of that Lady

Where longing masses itself innately,

Beyond where secular entitled him thrall!

Ah Dinesh...that is the burning question!

Exmple: Today I have spent ages, phrases snatched from nowhere, turned into metaphor

for a specific poem I want...NEED.. to write.

The resul thas been...nothing.

And it is a poem most inclusive yet - the compactness eludes me.

I need wait until one phrase ignites, then rapidly let an impromptu (spontane) just occur

and type as it occurs, online..I don`t know jusyt how this transfer from discilplined written work

to typed spontaneous work happenrd but that I wrote my thesis online s,(minus poetyr)..so am

at the behest of real c/c.`s or admirers and detractors more than critiques (both being of value)

yet need now write 3-8 re-writes, as the discipline of written work`s lost for te present.

I also mislay/ mis-label the memory sticks..secretary needed! [I just wish...:) ]

)I like your poems and your gently unforced yet ddiscilplined work..admirable and no complaints..

I hope you continue to improve and steadily to flourish.:)

ATB.

I either zone out and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing until I've finished writing, or start with a line or two that's been stuck in my head and build around that.

When something comes into my head,I grab pen and paper...I never 'try' to write. Usually it is all off the top of my head!

Good question, what works for me might not work for HIM or HER but for now it works for me.

I have just posted a piece called THE DONOR, I didn't have a clue. The first line was MY HEART BEATS IN DARKNESS.

Second line. IN RHYTHM I ONCE TOOK FOR GRANTED then it hit me, and the rest you see babes.