harlequinscurse In reply to almcdermid [2009-11-23 22:10:42 +0000 UTC]

That makes two of us, haha.

I went through a period in high school where I never got more than six hours of sleep a night, and in my afternoon haze, hungry before dinner, the lightheadedness made me particularly productive poetically speaking. I practiced what's known as automatic writing. Random phrases would stick in my head and I would string them together just to sublimate it from thought to tangible thing. So while there's not a whole lot of meaning, the writing is rather effective for me on a personal level because it takes me back to the exact feelings I had when I first wrote it down. I try not to load my poetry with a whole lot of meaning; just immediate experience.

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almcdermid In reply to harlequinscurse [2009-11-24 03:59:18 +0000 UTC]

Interesting method. And I'm not sure about the lack of meaning. I think it's there, I just can't figure it out.

I used to do something similar with cut-up, stringing random phrasing together until they same something, the what I can't say. I don't think this one has even been interpreted the same way twice. [link]

This one is made up of lines edited out of other poems (mostly). [link]

Random things I saw and heard one afternoon. [link]

I know, I'm a shameless self-promoter.

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