just some thoughts on writing

when you start a poem, right from the finish of that first line, you create something like a fire. like you have to keep throwing it timber to keep it alive and watch it grow. you kind of loose controll of it because it's not what you want to put into the poem, it's what the poem wants to pull out of you. let me say that again; it's not what you want to put into the poem, it's what the poem wants to pull out of you. sometimes it even asks you to create because the words the poem wants aren't part of you, but you just have to go with it and trust the poem. and hope that when it comes out it's what you wanted to express too