Comments on: Does Your Poetry Surprise You? http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/does-your-poetry-surprise-you/06/30/2008/ Commentary On 21st Century Poetics Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:13:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: the poet http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/does-your-poetry-surprise-you/06/30/2008/comment-page-1/#comment-402 the poet Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:50:36 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=312#comment-402 Mehreen, while it true that the words seem to have minds of their own and almost write themselves, I can't rely on that alone. Inspiration is the beginning of a poem for me. The rest is hard work. It is still an intense thought process to get to the right word, the right line break, the right punctuation, etc. Thanks for stopping by! Mehreen, while it true that the words seem to have minds of their own and almost write themselves, I can’t rely on that alone. Inspiration is the beginning of a poem for me. The rest is hard work. It is still an intense thought process to get to the right word, the right line break, the right punctuation, etc.

Thanks for stopping by!

]]> By: Mehreen http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/does-your-poetry-surprise-you/06/30/2008/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Mehreen Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:37:36 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=312#comment-400 Whatever you said is in harmony with my own opinion. However as an emerging writer, I find it a little hard to restrain myself to just one medium of expression. A writer is like a free bird, which if tried to be incarcerated to a certain dimension, the hindrance in the flow of the creative juices will be inevitable. The way you have elucidated your feelings for your poetry, its almost the same way I feel about my poetry. Its almost as if those collections of words have a mind of their own. The very realization enables us to let our thoughts run their own wild course until they are decanted into the mould of rhythm and words. Whatever you said is in harmony with my own opinion. However as an emerging writer, I find it a little hard to restrain myself to just one medium of expression. A writer is like a free bird, which if tried to be incarcerated to a certain dimension, the hindrance in the flow of the creative juices will be inevitable.

The way you have elucidated your feelings for your poetry, its almost the same way I feel about my poetry. Its almost as if those collections of words have a mind of their own. The very realization enables us to let our thoughts run their own wild course until they are decanted into the mould of rhythm and words.

]]> By: Jim Murdoch http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/does-your-poetry-surprise-you/06/30/2008/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Jim Murdoch Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:07:11 +0000 http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=312#comment-401 As you know, although a poet at heart, I don't restrict myself to just poetry. What gets me, after thirty-six years of writing IS the fact that I never quite know what's going to happen when my pen hits the paper. It's like the day I walked across the Clyde and heard the line: "Milligan and Murphy were brothers," in my head. God alone knows what that thought was doing in my head at six o'clock in the morning but there you go. What is more surprising is, that by the time I had crossed Glasgow Green and my sentence had become a paragraph, I knew I was writing a novel. Someone wrote a review recently and as I was reading through it, I got to a quote that the author had inserted and I thought, That's a damn good quote. And, do you know what, she was quoting me. It's nice when a line or two hits you fresh like that and you're reminded that, hey! you actually can write. Sometimes we need to be reminded. As you know, although a poet at heart, I don’t restrict myself to just poetry. What gets me, after thirty-six years of writing IS the fact that I never quite know what’s going to happen when my pen hits the paper. It’s like the day I walked across the Clyde and heard the line: “Milligan and Murphy were brothers,” in my head. God alone knows what that thought was doing in my head at six o’clock in the morning but there you go. What is more surprising is, that by the time I had crossed Glasgow Green and my sentence had become a paragraph, I knew I was writing a novel.

Someone wrote a review recently and as I was reading through it, I got to a quote that the author had inserted and I thought, That’s a damn good quote. And, do you know what, she was quoting me. It’s nice when a line or two hits you fresh like that and you’re reminded that, hey! you actually can write. Sometimes we need to be reminded.

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