Comments on: 30 Poems in 30 Days: What is Your Writing Process? http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/ The blog of writer J.C. Hewitt Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:21:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Meg@ Belt Buckles http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-217614 Meg@ Belt Buckles Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:16:07 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-217614 Most of the time I write out inspiration in my dreams, sometimes they are filled with darkness sometimes with light. A favorite subject of mine is vampires and the way they interact within their community. I have to prepare and think about everything i write not like my husband that can write a poem or short story out of a whim... I hate him for that... LOL Most of the time I write out inspiration in my dreams, sometimes they are filled with darkness sometimes with light.
A favorite subject of mine is vampires and the way they interact within their community.
I have to prepare and think about everything i write not like my husband that can write a poem or short story out of a whim… I hate him for that… LOL

]]> By: Saul Nadata http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-185216 Saul Nadata Mon, 12 May 2008 02:06:29 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-185216 Texas Sky There is so much I’ll never be tonight! The dark extends and extends and in the breeze the tree overhead blooms into branches, and then leaves, the fractal patterns repeating, ever smaller but always purple interrupting and dissecting black. Saul Nadatas last blog post..<a href="http://featuredpoems.blogspot.com/2008/05/texas-sky.html" rel="nofollow">Texas Sky</a> Texas Sky

There is so much I’ll never be tonight!
The dark extends and extends
and in the breeze
the tree overhead blooms
into branches, and then leaves,
the fractal patterns repeating,
ever smaller but always purple
interrupting and dissecting black.

Saul Nadatas last blog post..Texas Sky

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]]> By: John Hewitt http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-121358 John Hewitt Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:05:16 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-121358 Much better Connie Much better Connie

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]]> By: Connie Williams http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-119368 Connie Williams Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:00:37 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-119368 John: I agree -- here's a possible fix. Times up you say? Here, let Me lay it out for you One by one, just so you understand HIV, Mental Health Terminal Death impending Just not today or by your hand You can't put me out You can't touch my stuff You can't bid me go or Place my belonging's on the lawn You will wonder then what you have spawned for . . . I'll leave god's victim in, I like that part. It needs some work. John: I agree — here’s a possible fix.

Times up you say?
Here, let Me lay it out for you
One by one, just so you understand
HIV, Mental Health
Terminal
Death impending
Just not today or by your hand
You can’t put me out
You can’t touch my stuff
You can’t bid me go or
Place my belonging’s on the lawn
You will wonder then what you have spawned for . . .

I’ll leave god’s victim in, I like that part. It needs some work.

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-119337 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:21:34 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-119337 I really loved the line, "I am God's victim, and I will call protective services" - it so captures that mixture of grandiloquent "entitlement" and the petulant child going, "So there!" I really loved the line, “I am God’s victim, and I will call protective services” – it so captures that mixture of grandiloquent “entitlement” and the petulant child going, “So there!”

]]> By: John Hewitt http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-119298 John Hewitt Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:49:05 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-119298 Connie, My wife works with the mentally ill population and knows first hand how a sense of entitlement can creep over many of their clients. She has a motto, "never work harder than the patient." I like much of your poem, but this section: Even when the time you said is up and I should be gone I will one by one lay it out for you, for I aM Terminally ill with HIV and mental problems You can’t put me out,place my belongings on the lawn and bid me go I am God’s victim, and I will call protective services Is a little too prose-like compared to the rest of the poem. You might want to make another pass at it. Connie,

My wife works with the mentally ill population and knows first hand how a sense of entitlement can creep over many of their clients. She has a motto, “never work harder than the patient.”

I like much of your poem, but this section:

Even when the time you said is up and I should be gone
I will one by one lay it out for you, for I aM
Terminally ill with HIV and mental problems
You can’t put me out,place my belongings on the lawn and bid me go
I am God’s victim, and I will call protective services

Is a little too prose-like compared to the rest of the poem. You might want to make another pass at it.

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-119275 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:41:38 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-119275 PS Dear cerebralmum, please note, "I TRAINED myself to hold lines and if necessary whole verses in my head until I could get to write them down." It can be done. However, I admit that this was when my kids were past infancy. The other thing to remember is that everything's stored in the subconscious anyway, so anything you think you've lost will emerge in some form when the time's right. You can sit down and recapture the experience or whatever else the inspiration was, and go from there. PS
Dear cerebralmum, please note, “I TRAINED myself to hold lines and if necessary whole verses in my head until I could get to write them down.” It can be done. However, I admit that this was when my kids were past infancy. The other thing to remember is that everything’s stored in the subconscious anyway, so anything you think you’ve lost will emerge in some form when the time’s right. You can sit down and recapture the experience or whatever else the inspiration was, and go from there.

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-119214 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:04:47 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-what-is-your-writing-process/#comment-119214 Ha - I have a sword poem. :) Ha – I have a sword poem. :)

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