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From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: poem & Losing the Muse
> [Douglas]
>>> if the words dont
>>> pop into your head it is cheating to use your technical skill to make
>>> the
>>> poem. Poems are given.
>
> [Dominic]
>> That may be a little absolute. Although I often hear phrases before I
>> think them, the hearing usually happens in the context of a
>> thought-process, a deliberate search for sound and sense. One could
>> argue that if anything is "cheating" it's relying on naive
>> spontaneity, the pressure of unmediated inner speech, to write your
>> poems for you.
>
> I've found that if I use technical skill to make or continue a poem it can
> sometimes come alive in my hands and turn out to be one of my better ones.
> Of course, this doesn't always happen -- it's necessary to use one's
> judgement and be prepared to ditch the weaklings, after giving them time
> and a bit of help to fight for survival.
>
> joanna --
I dont think I have the technical skill to write without inspiration. In
normal mode I am not very good at words.
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