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RE: The Retired Prophet

in #poetry6 years ago

I know longer poetry pieces rarely get reads, but I so hope some are pulled by your Empty House pieces to come here.

If that worked, the people who constantly had to keep buying bot-votes would be able to stop. Alas. But I've got some of the people who count here with me, and that includes you, friend Alain :)

You told me you loved the Descartes reference, but not the other, and not the shift in tone.

Inspiration is a funny thing. I think reading a lot of dross saps you of inspiration. Commenting and critiquing are also creative work, so they take on your stores of energy, and inspiration. So you need to be careful of overgiving, when you need to find time for your own voice to carry.
I've always found the best thing for inspiration is to either create, specifically non-fiction, which leads to all those other ideas you need to get to, or consuming. Our minds turn all we consume into material to use later. But not when we keep giving. Or when we consume too actively, especially bad stuff...

I do hope my stuff helps you find something to say, not just here, which is always appreciated, mind, but when you seek to take to pen on your own.

Finally, I'm going to ask what you mean about being a clutterer versus my white-space mastery. Your poems don't seem too stacked in black space. Do you mean that your lines tend to be all the same length, and that you keep each stanza of the same length as the others? Don't butter me up, Alain, speak clearly :P

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