11-21-2012, 07:33 AM
The Perfect Poem....(worshipful hallelujahs and golden light)
I don't know. I think its an unattainable goal that we all drive for. All poems are as perfect as you can make them at the time. I'd actually be scared to see no areas to fix in a poem after having it sit for five years. I'd be afraid I was stagnating. There's such a subjective element to writing anyway. It's more gymnastics and less track--though the Romantics would tell us that there are performance enhancing drugs. All we can shoot for at any given time is the best we are capable of doing.
I don't know. I think its an unattainable goal that we all drive for. All poems are as perfect as you can make them at the time. I'd actually be scared to see no areas to fix in a poem after having it sit for five years. I'd be afraid I was stagnating. There's such a subjective element to writing anyway. It's more gymnastics and less track--though the Romantics would tell us that there are performance enhancing drugs. All we can shoot for at any given time is the best we are capable of doing.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson