tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post5738684452840051949..comments2023-06-28T22:58:28.247+10:00Comments on Sixth In Line: Self and other: the difference between the inside and the outsideElisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-47076769093878371872009-09-23T08:42:14.024+10:002009-09-23T08:42:14.024+10:00I have tried recently to write a poem, but it did ...I have tried recently to write a poem, but it did not work. It does not come naturally to me. <br />I have toyed with going to poetry school, but I do not have the time. I wish I could write poetry. <br />I love your idea of your poems as a 'paper trail, evidence of growth, like marks on the door frame'. And I agree that the process is more important in many ways than the end product for the person writing, though hopefully the end product is more important for the reader, including the writer reading back over what he/she has written. They're different processes, I'd say. <br />I find it difficult to write about the same thing more than once. I do it sometimes because it's good for me, but I only enjoy that first rush, thereafter it seems laboured.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-67028781521209793052009-09-23T04:14:02.643+10:002009-09-23T04:14:02.643+10:00Yes, but I suspect the reason for that is that ins...Yes, but I suspect the reason for that is that inside you your saliva is protected, it is part of a living organism whereas once it leaves you it can be affected by external forces, infected if you like; it no longer is you. What is striking is the degree of revulsion we experience. It really is quite over the top, isn't it? And it's not learned behaviour either.<br /><br />How do you feel when you put your thoughts on paper? Are they still a part of you? I've written about this before and my attitude to my poems regarding them as something cast off, waste product, the end result of a thought process, no longer of any real use to me. The experience of writing the poem is more important in the long run, it's that that becomes a part of the future me. I look back on my poems as a paper trail, evidence of growth, like marks on the door frame.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com