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 What is it you do when you need inspiration for poetry?


  • Pebcak
    Jul 3 4:13 AM 2007
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    What inspires me most is night-swimming. I exercise a bit, and then settle down into a corner of the pool, gaze up at the stars, with my ears submerged in the water. It's the closest thing I can find to a meditative state.
    I always leave the pool feeling refreshed, and full of ideas.

    I'm eager to know what you guys do/use to inspire yourselves.

  • FallingTwilight
    July 3, 2007
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    I don't do anything to try to inspire myself. Everything just comes to me. Lately it hasn't though. >.< Damn writer's block!

  • k8fairy
    July 4, 2007
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    Um day to day life inspires me. Just small things if you think about them enough, they have meaning in them.

  • Demonikvampire
    July 7, 2007
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    I just stare at inanimate objects like clocks or I simply listen to music to inspire me, but mostly it doesn't work because I'm stuck with the misfortune of writer's block.

  • positive anarchy
    July 8, 2007
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    I watch music videos on youtube

    seriously

  • aboutface
    July 8, 2007
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    I read about other poets night swimming for inspiration instead of working third shift on an oil rig that is soon to be capped by Uncle Sam.

    • Dusty Rose
      September 10, 2007
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      you work on a oil rig?? I actually find them fascinating.. why the cap by uncle sam?? gas prices are soaring?

  • SatieScully
    July 10, 2007
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    I start off by going out and looking at billboards & my surroundings. I then, begin to just start writing down words that really cling to me. I also look in the dictionary & start piecing together phrases.

  • DawnBaby
    July 16, 2007
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    Picture Contests

    I look for picture or word bank contests, my muse can be totally gone and just the write group of words or picture sets it off. Try it, it works!

  • Beautifuly Broken15
    July 18, 2007
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    My inspirations

    My inspiration is every day life. If Im with my family and they piss me off I write about it, I see someone bulling someone else I put my self in the victims shoes, My PAST thats a big one 4 me.

  • AmethystFire
    July 26, 2007
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    Life and music

  • Miyuki
    August 14, 2007
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    I actually just read manga...the pictures just...tell me a story.

    AND I read Fear Street. It has lotsa blood. That's good.

  • Lancea Optimus
    August 14, 2007
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    Poems usually come to me when I listen to music, spend time with nature, think, witnessing a random moment in someone's life.

  • LadyAmalthea
    September 9, 2007
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    Mmmm sometimes like after doing or experiencing something I feel that inspiration, so I stretch out a bit, then sit down at my comp. i turn on some music to suit my mood, open up thesaurus.com and start. I also get my brain revved by making freewrites (those rock!) and usually I can start something from picking fave phrases out of those.

    o.0

  • ErikAmbrose
    September 10, 2007
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    Step one: Get plastered
    Step two: have an in-depth conversation -- an intellectual one of course -- with someone equally or more plastered than myself
    Step three: remember sore spots in life
    Step four: before passing out, scribble some shit on a napkin or wall or whatever's the hell around
    Step five: Put the pieces back together, then start all over.

  • sableofnight
    September 12, 2007
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    I usually listen to music. Instrumental.
    Sometimes I go into chat rooms on aol and jsut watch what the others are typing and get idead from that.
    Or I watch t.v. sometimes a word or sentence can get me going.

  • YhummYGumDroPs
    September 26, 2007
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    Sleep first, bcause I need to relax and take off all the school stress. Then, when I wake up, I drink coffee or juice, bring out a few cookies, then sit by the window and then it'll all come out...

  • XxemoorpunkxX
    September 26, 2007
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    I sleep, wake up, drink a Monster, then go sit in the dark and just think about whatever. Then ideas come to me.

  • Miyuki
    September 28, 2007
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    Okay again, time has passed since last reply.

    Anyway, a lot of times I get inspired by a song or song title nowadays.
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