I wrote this a few months ago. It's a section from an unfinished essay on poetry. It's about the process of creating a poem...Check it out! Do you agree with me or don't? Let me know!
Poetry, in my humble opinion, is an explosion of thought, ideas, and images in a short space (being 1-2 pages.) It is emotional and the foundation is the sub-consciousness being exposed by the writing process. The writing is fast, furious, and spontaneous. To be poetry, the piece must not be altered or edited in any way. The ‘organic altering’ as I call it, comes from the development of the writer through the years of writing poetry. The writer trains himself by writing many poems thus not needing the process of editing. Therefore each poem becomes a step in the overall development of creating the ‘perfect poem.’ This poem varies from writer to writer; for me, it is when the writer creates a poem that utilizes all his senses and the refinement of interpreting subconscious thoughts, dreams, experience, and knowledge into a compact symphony that explodes with originality, beauty, individuality, and the self-containment of history, culture, language, music, sociology, archaeology etc.
Editing should be confined to prose pieces. Editing in affect takes away from the true and organic process of writing a poem. The reason I do not like editing poems is because it alters the original piece. If the writer does not like the piece but finds the images or some lines agreeable allow these items to seep into his consciousness—they will reform in ones mind and come out reinforced by other developed ideas in the next time (whether it be in a day or years.)
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