Below is a stream of consciousness poem I wrote an hour ago. Lots of imagery potential here! Today I thought I’d share how I usually approach poem writing.
- Write rough cut in pen or marker
- Run away from it! It needs time to rest.
- Look at it with an unbiased mind
- Say “hey this isn’t so bad”
- Say “except this right here is awful”
- Subtract
- Run away again
- Read it aloud
- Fine tune
- Publish or
- Put it away until I run out of ideas
- Return when I’m a better writer and revise
[…] is newly written, and like my earlier stream of consciousness poem, I took a whole page and threw out some […]
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