I have spent three weeks now on a poem that will neither resolve nor get out of my head. I cannot make it work at all. I don't know why it isn't working. I want to put my head through plate glass.
Can you write ancillary poems around the main ones? Ones that that let you call across a great distance to the main one, even though they're not the main one?
I wonder if it's like remembering a name when you can't remember. You (well, I) think to yourself (myself), "I know it's two syllables and it starts with an M." Later, the name turns out to be "Harmony." It's not two syllables and doesn't start with an M at all... my brain shrugs when I point these things out. My point? Struggling to think of all two-syllable names or all names beginning with M wouldn't help me. I'm not sure what would--but it's when I'm doing other things that the word "Harmony" pops into my head.
Your poem may need another form or may need another form *first*. Can you write it as something else?
Other people's suggestions usually are no good. [Came out sounding bad--wasn't putting down myself or others for our suggestions; what I mean is that sometimes suggestions aren't what you need or are looking for... ]
I have a feeling weeks like these make you doubt yourself. Please do not. You are still you. This poem will come--just in its own way, on its own schedule.
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I wonder if it's like remembering a name when you can't remember. You (well, I) think to yourself (myself), "I know it's two syllables and it starts with an M." Later, the name turns out to be "Harmony." It's not two syllables and doesn't start with an M at all... my brain shrugs when I point these things out. My point? Struggling to think of all two-syllable names or all names beginning with M wouldn't help me. I'm not sure what would--but it's when I'm doing other things that the word "Harmony" pops into my head.
Your poem may need another form or may need another form *first*. Can you write it as something else?
Other people's suggestions usually are no good. [Came out sounding bad--wasn't putting down myself or others for our suggestions; what I mean is that sometimes suggestions aren't what you need or are looking for... ]
I have a feeling weeks like these make you doubt yourself. Please do not. You are still you. This poem will come--just in its own way, on its own schedule.