writer

A Poem by wisutdowse

just my mind.

The slump of 10th

The downside of all ends

Tell me I’m still good

Before it all ends

I have no motive

No goals to achieve

My hearts still yearns for a pen

Yet no ink will bleed for me

I waste all paper

Just a bin filled

I read and read

Yet no words I see

My voice still speaks

Yet only words

Only words.

They’re all just words now

I am no writer

Know I am no writer

Now, I am no longer a writer.

© 2024 wisutdowse

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JayG

• The slump of 10th

I'm certain that this has meaning to you, who have context. But what about the reader? You can't retroactively remove their confusion.

• The downside of all ends

What? In some unknown way, something called a slump relates to the first line's slump? Words we have, but as they're read there's no context to make them meaningful. That's part of the reason we need to edit our work from the seat of the reader, who has only what the words suggest, based on THEIR life experience, not our intent.

You end with "I am no writer." I disagree. It has nothing to do with you, your talent, or your potential. It's that you've not yet BECOME a writer, which is certainly fixable, since we almost universally leave our school days without a clue of how poetry, or fiction, is written.

Why? Because in school, we learn the writing skills that employers find useful, like the ability to write reports, letters, and other nonfiction methodologies. We're taught nothing about the emotion-based skills needed for poetry and fiction, because as professions, their skills are acquired in addition to our school-day skills.

But...since we leave school believing that writing-is-writing, and we have that taken care of, we jump in, write what too often reads like a report, and then assume that the fault is ours. But it's not.

So, since you, obviously want to write, the solution, in the area of poetry, is dead simple: acquire those missing skills. The learning will be interesting. And the practice? Writing poems.

For nonmetrical poetry, grab Mary Oliver's, A Poetry Handbook:
https://dokumen.pub/a-poetry-handbook-0156724006.html

You'll find it filled with little gems of wisdom. And for metrical poetry, jump over to Amazon and read the excerpt from Stephen Fry's, The Ode Less Traveled. The only word for that is amazing.

But whatever you do, hang in there, and keep-on-writing.

Jay Greenstein
Articles: https://jaygreenstein.wordpress.com/category/the-craft-of-writing/the-grumpy-old-writing-coach/
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@jaygreenstein3334

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“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
~ Mark Twain

Posted 3 Months Ago

• The slump of 10th

I'm certain that this has meaning to you, who have context. But what about the reader? You can't retroactively remove their confusion.

• The downside of all ends

What? In some unknown way, something called a slump relates to the first line's slump? Words we have, but as they're read there's no context to make them meaningful. That's part of the reason we need to edit our work from the seat of the reader, who has only what the words suggest, based on THEIR life experience, not our intent.

You end with "I am no writer." I disagree. It has nothing to do with you, your talent, or your potential. It's that you've not yet BECOME a writer, which is certainly fixable, since we almost universally leave our school days without a clue of how poetry, or fiction, is written.

Why? Because in school, we learn the writing skills that employers find useful, like the ability to write reports, letters, and other nonfiction methodologies. We're taught nothing about the emotion-based skills needed for poetry and fiction, because as professions, their skills are acquired in addition to our school-day skills.

But...since we leave school believing that writing-is-writing, and we have that taken care of, we jump in, write what too often reads like a report, and then assume that the fault is ours. But it's not.

So, since you, obviously want to write, the solution, in the area of poetry, is dead simple: acquire those missing skills. The learning will be interesting. And the practice? Writing poems.

For nonmetrical poetry, grab Mary Oliver's, A Poetry Handbook:
https://dokumen.pub/a-poetry-handbook-0156724006.html

You'll find it filled with little gems of wisdom. And for metrical poetry, jump over to Amazon and read the excerpt from Stephen Fry's, The Ode Less Traveled. The only word for that is amazing.

But whatever you do, hang in there, and keep-on-writing.

Jay Greenstein
Articles:  https://jaygreenstein.wordpress.com/category/the-craft-of-writing/the-grumpy-old-writing-coach/
Videos:  https://www.youtube.com/@jaygreenstein3334

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“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
 ~ Mark Twain

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