How to Write a Poem
You’ve got to begin
the conversation
If you don’t listen
you can’t respond
If you don’t ask
there is no answer
And if you don’t write it down
it ends before it starts
__________Colleen Redman / Poets United
"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman
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February 26th, 2017 11:46 am
nailed it in one, colleen. Nicely done.
February 26th, 2017 12:13 pm
Yes.. it’s so hard to make it easy… and too many answers are giving for questions never asked.
February 26th, 2017 12:57 pm
yes conversation is ever so important!
February 26th, 2017 2:14 pm
Very cool.
February 26th, 2017 2:52 pm
Very Emily Dickinson, no extra words, spare, precise.
February 26th, 2017 3:24 pm
Ah, conversation is such a circular thing, isn’t it? Not as simple as it looks on the surface!
February 26th, 2017 4:08 pm
Yup–I love the brevity here–it totally works
February 26th, 2017 4:13 pm
I think the world needs a bit more conversation and ears that will truly listen.
February 26th, 2017 4:45 pm
What if you don’t like the answers?
February 26th, 2017 5:07 pm
I often don’t like the answers and I write about that. Like dreams, sometimes the bad dreams have more to teach me.
February 26th, 2017 6:17 pm
Succinct and clever! I like it.
February 27th, 2017 1:23 am
exactly, this is how…listening to and asking…
February 27th, 2017 1:45 am
Absolutely! 🙂
February 27th, 2017 4:37 am
It may rhyme, it may meter, but it doesn’t have to, verse flows free…
February 27th, 2017 10:39 am
Beautifully expressed 🙂
February 27th, 2017 10:35 pm
and it ends before it starts
if you don’t write it down
Been through these trying times, lots of times. Very true Colleen. A habit that often is forgotten when it happens!
Hank
February 28th, 2017 5:47 pm
So true! I have lost many poems that way now I carry a notebook.