Did any of you ever have a poem come into your head really fast...like strong thoughts?

Question

Like you were more a secretary taking dictation...than a poet. You knew they weren't your own thoughts.???

Answer 1

Yeah and sometimes those are some of the best poems in my opion that have come to me. If only there was something that I could do about the spelling then everything would be golden. Some poets wish that they could do this. I sometimes wish that poems would take time to come to me but it feels kind of like I have to pee and I have to write like right now other wise I'm going to end up hurting and I hope that I don't get all over the floor.

Answer 2

When I feel emotional about a subject, sometimes, not always, I write faster than I think--or so it feels. It feels as if I am a medium rather than a writer. I.E., I am channeling and I don't feel I can take "credit" for what I've written. It's just a feeling I have sometimes. It doesn't happen much but it has happened enough that I know that sometimes I am not consciously, completely responsible for what I've written.

To take it one more step...I don't think this is eerie or weird. I think when feelings run really deeply my subconscious takes over -- and I let it -- and that produces the raw material for the poem. Sometimes it takes me time to understand what I've written -- and then I need to refine it. But I can't ever remember having written a poem like this that turned out badly. So, in the end, I trust that "inner voice."

Answer 3

Yes, that's very true. It's very exciting when that happens. But then there is the other side.

"F/UTILITY"


The search for happiness, mirage of happiness
If you don’t have someone to perform the act of love with
You can perform the act of faith -
Pick up your pen
Perform the act of catharsis alone
Write your poem

Every Rosh Hashana
Every New Year’s Eve
Every birthday
the chance to make vows
oh, you will be better, different
and even if you saw the light (Torah)
would you do G-d’s bidding
and be an observant Jew

Someone said, you create your personality
Smiling falsely you said really, how’s that?
Continuing on your own, oh fool, oh simpleton
the act of faith
that when you pick up your pen
you still can write (write what -
something that burns a hole in you)

Answer 4

Yes, in fact the longest poem I ever wrote was 65 quatrains and it took less than one hour. I've only made minor spelling corrections to it over the past few years. However, not all "instant" poems are so lucky...most need a great deal of editing to polish them...but the fact they come almost spontaneously, awakening you in the middle of the night sometimes, demanding you write them down before they'll let you get back to sleep...yes, I know them. Not all my poems come to me that way, and in fact, fewer every year...but there was a time...

Answer 5

Yes. Like it comes so fast I can barely keep up with the words spilling out of my mind to write it down on paper. I feel it is a direct connection to the muse, a poem demanding to be born... a gift that is destined to come through me, through my pen... or... yours!

Answer 6

That happens to me every time I write poetry...and the poems are written in Shakespearean sonnet form!

Answer 7

Yes, all ze time, but I sink zey just get transformed to me from anozer transmitter, in anozer time zone from some ozer planet like von of ze moons in ze beta sayzis region of vhatdumean!

Answer 8

That is how all my poems come to me. In one fast swoop. I cannot stop writing till it's done. I also never revise.

Answer 9

That's how it works. Then, after the words fall out, we fix them a little...