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Poetic Sense and NonsensebyEugene R. Moutoux
Coffee or teaAnd some poetryMetamorphose hoursInto minutes |
My modus operandi in writing most of these poems was to select ten words, proximate alphabetically but randomly grouped with respect to meaning, from the group of "impressive" words that I require my high-school juniors to learn. These ten words usually suggested a possible topic. Then I wrote the first two lines, almost never knowing at this point exactly where the poem was going. I find it amazing that, as a writer, you don’t have to know what you are going to say when you begin; somehow ideas present themselves in the course of writing. My self-imposed task was to use all ten words, and at first I did not allow myself to write more than 14 lines. The latter condition was dropped after ten or so poems as altogether too limiting; the former, too, had to bite the dust when, in rereading the poems, I discovered that I had forced words from the list to do what other words could do better. I hope that you enjoy my poems. Please let me know what you think. Thanks. | |||
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