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What inspires you? (17)
Grey skies, rain and early hours of the morning usually see me writing my darker works.
Sunshine pushes me towards descriptive nature pieces, and reminiscing over old flames tends to see a mixture of erotic and sad writings.
Hope that helps explain my inspiration.
I agree, being encouraged by others can make the difference, the smallest word just at the right time has more power than we can imagine.
for me when i'm driving many miles and all is quiet where i can have time to think i can look deep inside my soul and search for a topic that not only goes with where i am in place of mind and life but how moving on the earth's ground and the earth's movement in space almost feel as if i am one with the earth this allows me to be able to write in and about different styles and subjects. i hope this makes sense cause it really don't make sense too me.hahahha..
kickit.
I may hear something a saying or a word and think that it would make a good poem.
I was on my balcony this morning wondering how to finish the poem "No Tears" and reaching into my gut to get it out no matter how bad I was feeling and I heard this guy whistling happily downstairs and that was it, I knew how to finish it.
I feel you have to look and listen to all that is around you.
When I started writing some time ago, that was all I wrote about too, perhaps because my emotions due to events were running high. It was a way to deal with them and move on from the problems causing them. After indulging in this method enough, I found I could tap into events of the past or imaginary/fictional circumstances.
special scene or the need to exspress one's feelings, but ultimately I think inspiration comes from the need to be creative which can be exspressed in writing, poetry, painting and any of the hundreds of creative disciplines displaying ones feelings and thoughts. Sometimes I just sit down and force myself to do a poem...but of course this usually results is something that is work rather than a loabour of love.
for me when i'm driving many miles and all is quiet where i can have time to think i can look deep inside my soul and search for a topic that not only goes with where i am in place of mind and life but how moving on the earth's ground and the earth's movement in space almost feel as if i am one with the earth this allows me to be able to write in and about different styles and subjects. i hope this makes sense cause it really don't make sense too me.hahahha..
kickit.
Everything I write has a story behind my poems,
I admit I don't label myself as an outstanding poet as I am unskilled to master this art as well as you all do.
Thank you all for your comments, sharing it with you my poet friends all around the world, make my voyage travelling to another dimension.
Lots of love and sunny thought from Monaco.
Raika
like rob, i get inspiration everywhere!, i have noticed though that i am more inspired when watching others do their art, namely at concerts, plays, dance, etc.
i also note that i really like the feeling i get, inside, when i'm flowing a good poem. when i force too hard, it's not that good, so sometimes you just gotta wait and be patient, still, as andrew has told me in the past, primarily you just gotta WRITE.
;-)