Writing Techniques and inspiration

[milo]

I've been watching a few youtube videos about songwriting techniques and when it comes to the lyrics I've found that a lot of songwriters have 'lists' to draw from for writing a song.

Say for instance a list of verbs, weather, fauna, places, people, nouns, adjectives and food, then pick one or two from each list and then force themselves to write a song incorporating all of the choices.

Just wondering if anyone has used this kind of technique or anything similar to come up with scenarios and details when writing poetry.

I had a bunch of words that I thought was cool and I could never fit into a poem so I worte a poem called  Some words I Never Put into a Poem.

Most poem I write happen when I notice that one thing is kind of link another or reminds me of something else or I might have a cool phrase in my head.  It does make sense to write these down but traditionally I don't so if I don't get to writing the poem on the spot it doesn't get written (although sometimes I will let it percolate in my mind for a few days)