Writing Techniques and inspiration

[wasellajam]

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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.

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ha, browsing the NaPM threads recently I saw one of yours, Poems Ella Didn't Write or something like that, cheeky. I think you may have followed up with a real one, not sure.

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I find learning and practicing any skill extremely difficult, so I offer myself to Dionysos, and perform dithyrambically.  I find it difficult to understand anything, and am blessed by the traditional notion that there is nothing to understand.

Dithyrambically, a new word and concept for me, thanks.

What's been helping me this week:
I copy an op from the practice threads to the top of my page then write a different poem to avoid writing one in the form I chose.

Today I aimed for the form again, it only got going when I decided that when it's done it will go on the practice thread, took the pressure off to write something "worthy." We'll see if I get there today but it's a start.