Poetry and weed

[Lawrence]

Have you ever tried to write poetry while smoking marijuana? What was the result?

[billy]

i've tried it on coke lmao.

i ended up with about 150 couplets that were excellent. sadly my ex throew the papers i'd written them on away.

normally when i smoked the weed all i wanted to do was chill laugh or eat.

[srijantje]

you can always try again,Bill

[billy]

smoking weed now would probably kill me lmao sj.

and like vf im a munchy moocher when i do, though with me it's chocolate.

[srijantje]

naah,smoking weed won't kill anyone

[Verbavore]

During my high school years, my friends and I often engaged in group poetry/ art. Smoking pot was a part of our normal routine (still is, for me), and we wrote so often that we created a book called "This" with a picture of a pot leaf my friend drew on the front (as in, "Hey man, check 'This' out" Our second notebook was titled 'It'). While much of it lacked fous, theme, etc. it was still an extremely fun past time. In fact, the very first entry was a poem I wrote titled "A Trip Through the Time Tunnel of a School Night" and I specifically recall that it took quite longer to construct a proper sentence than when sober. As a musician AND poet, I've noticed that smoking pot is much more conducive to enjoying music than writing poetry, but consuming ANY kind of media while high added increased enjoymet, and the CREATION of any type is only sometimes adversely affected by being high.

[heslopian]

I don't believe in using any substance as an inspirational tool. Even if it works at first, like Billy with his coke couplets, it soon denigrates your ability to write.

[billy]

i wish in my youth i'd gotten into poetry, maybe then i would have tried a bit of enlightenment augmentation
some poets as we know did some of their best works on or with the aid of drugs or booze. that said they were probably good enough poets without the drugs.