Poems Have Two Subjects

[billy]

I've just learned like Hugo says that some of the lines that got me to the poem aren't the poem.

i'd go further by saying most of the lines.

I feel inferior just reading this thread. I can literally 'feel' a poem - it drops, whether I am writing on my arm with an ink pen while driving or rapping it directly on site - and there's a small amount of cleanup.

i have those as well sometimes. i don't think what or how i get to a poem is academical. it's more a game of hit and miss, throwing things into the pot and then having a taste, if something tastes good that's the taste i work with.

Poems drop, and sometimes we accidentally spill poetry... but I like the process to be more controlled. I'm just anal like that

i agree. on the odd occasion i have a dropped poem, but in general i drop the idea of a poem and very often see it change into something completely different.