tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post5856017085276955648..comments2024-03-08T08:21:45.799-05:00Comments on sam of the ten thousand things: if the shoe fits I should wear it...sam of the ten thousand thingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04378206265831223396noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-75423414032112754382008-09-05T02:13:00.000-04:002008-09-05T02:13:00.000-04:00Great post!When I sit quietly, I can't write a thi...Great post!<BR/><BR/>When I sit quietly, I can't write a thing or think of anything to write. It's usually when I'm listening to the radio or watching tv that a concept "hits me." At which point I grab my notepad or whatever scrap piece of paper is in reach and start jotting down ideas. Besides past experiences and husband and children (love poems), that's typically how I get my inspiration eskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05500578707910599297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-3759134594318854872008-08-26T18:35:00.000-04:002008-08-26T18:35:00.000-04:00Sam I love this. I struggle with the quiet too, be...Sam I love this. I struggle with the quiet too, because it is in the quiet (a literal and figurative quiet) that I can ask the questions and attempt to explore answers (writing the poem) - but only in the quiet. Such a difficult thing to achieve. I have fear going into the quiet. I don't know what will happen. That is part of the wonder and potential in it.<BR/><BR/>Have you read Li Young Lee's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-18916548592134645072008-08-25T14:48:00.000-04:002008-08-25T14:48:00.000-04:00I can relate to this post, too..especially the wis...I can relate to this post, too..especially the wish to write more than one poem that really sings. I'm with silence on a regular basis, being mostly housebound with CFIDS, but silence doesn't bring poems to me. Something has to stir me, to kickstart something I want or need to say and then let it come in the shape of a poem. When I read a poet I love, I feel the inspiration, too. I find that manyPrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-55875021009144110302008-08-25T08:09:00.000-04:002008-08-25T08:09:00.000-04:00Didn't Wordsworth spend 15 years revising some of ...Didn't Wordsworth spend 15 years revising some of his poems? I know where you're coming from, Sam, but I think every poet has those days when every piece seems dreadful. I often have them over pieces I start out happy with; a day or two gives me (better? warped?) perspective and I think it's dreadful. <BR/><BR/>I agree with you that one poem for the ages is a worthy lifetime achievement. Or one M. C. Allan (Carrie, to most)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12073563632969877406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-13247630847879424792008-08-24T03:10:00.000-04:002008-08-24T03:10:00.000-04:00They come when they come. The work is in all the l...They come when they come. The work is in all the little nudges that suddenly make the poem unfold, like a secret passageway or a film by Svankmaer. I bet you have written one. And if you think you haven't, when you have, you will carry on, not stop, in order to write a more perfect one. Gee, I thought I was self critical.pkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02678679294859263012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-28143562345882828202008-08-23T15:27:00.000-04:002008-08-23T15:27:00.000-04:00Everything you said here, I feel. I feel it here, ...Everything you said here, I feel. I feel it here, everything. You said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-51693774843500494922008-08-23T12:51:00.000-04:002008-08-23T12:51:00.000-04:00You perfectly articulated how I've been feeling la...You perfectly articulated how I've been feeling lately, not only about my own poetry, but the poetry I've been reading.<BR/><BR/>My whole writing life, I've been waiting for that one good, real poem. Maybe I'd stop writing once I wrote that poem. Maybe I'd feel like a real poet once I wrote that poem.<BR/><BR/>Last night, I was watching the moon watch me--there, see, that's the line I was LKDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02171027823523187126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20269767.post-81279070414947025732008-08-23T11:52:00.000-04:002008-08-23T11:52:00.000-04:00I always find you have to slog through a lot of ha...I always find you have to slog through a lot of half-assed, uninspiring poems to get to a couple of even passable first drafts. When I sit down to write, I never think about publishing it, who's going to read it, who's going to "get it." I also look elsewhere for inspiration rather than other poetry. That's why films, music and fiction (and non-fiction) have been greater sources of inspiration Collin Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03777180960376039699noreply@blogger.com