#poetryprocess

I Thought Sunsets Were Different

One of the critics asked me how long did it take me to assemble poetry collection. It took me two years, including a work with the editor, to select, edit, throw away, cry and sweat, -- all that, just to make a book. It took me much more time to write those poems, about 10 years, usually around 3am-4am. I don't include those years when I was drifting still in my romanticizing youth. I am writing every day one or two poems and still working on my novel. Poetry is a way of thinking and has nothing and yet everything to do with finding rhyme. It is an inner melody that bursts into life and tries to find words so others could understand. That melody has a certain structure, system of elements, that can be interpreted with rhyme, rhythmic repetitions, letters within a word, etc. I do not write poetry with prompts, thematic or something that is suggested. It is heard within my soul and then, it is just there, on a paper, breathing.