"While composing this poem, I have affirmed an interesting comparison I have believed in for quite some time now. Expect to hear about it soon!!"
And finally, after a bazillion posts, today happens to be the "soon"!
Composing poetry (or music), as I've long felt, is very much like delivering a baby, and here are Av’s TOP TEN REASONS why!
1) You can plan for it all that you want, but a poem will always take shape at the most unplanned moment.
2) It is really hard to make one, when you really feel like having one. On the other hand, if you take your mind off the task and relax, it is much easier to conceive. An idea, that is!
3) Sometimes after you have composed a poem, you are not really sure who or what caused it in the first place.
4) Sometimes you do not want to, or can not afford to write the poem at that point in your life, and you have no choice but to abort the budding inspiration inside you.
5) An idea/inspiration has to linger around in your head for a certain period of time before it is ready to become a poem and during this period some ideas will die prematurely before they are ready to take form.
6) Sometimes if a poem emerges before the idea is fully formed, it will not survive. (Read as, Av crumbling up the paper and throwing it into the wastepaper basket.)
7) After an idea is done with its gestation period inside your head, it will start struggling to come out, and you have no choice but to let it.
8) It is always easier to compose a poem if you are in a comfortable position and place.
9) It hurts like hell to do it, but it’s the most beautiful experience, and you couldn’t be any happier after it is done.
10) Years later, when the same words/melodies lend themselves to varied meanings, you look back at them and wonder, “Did I really create that??”
How is that for a creative analogy!!! However, poets are not given half the credit that mothers are! So here is a poem I composed a couple of years back, to highlight the brave deed that composition is!
POETRY CAN BE DANGEROUS!
To all my friends and even my foes
I have a word of advice,
If you are thinking of composing poems
Make sure you think twice!
Writing poems is something nice
Or that is what everyone thinks,
But very few actually do notice
The problems that it brings!
The gift of putting words in rhyme
And rhythm is considered rare,
But no one thinks of all the trouble
The poet has to bear!
For one, when you feel poetic
Nothing else can you contemplate,
Everything else except your poem
You have to procrastinate!
It’s always at an awkward time
When by this impulse you are hit,
You drop your work and start composing
Under a violent poetical fit!
You compose lines upon lines of verse
And see your poem through,
But if insatiated, you still compose
Yet another poem or two!
May god forbid, but if it so happens
That your poem remains uncomposed,
The inspiring idea will hammer your brain
Till you start to feel quite dozed!
And if your poem remains halfway
Then the situation is even worse,
The half-ghost of the half-poem continues
To haunt your every new verse!
So make sure to think twice about
Becoming a poet before its too late,
I just decided to write in verse once
And to this day I can’t talk straight!!
Hahahaha! Like always, I'm eager to hear some feedback from all you folks, and as I suspect, quite a few of you will be taking the list further too! What the heck, I might do it in one of the posts myself. Get me started!!
1 comment:
I guess most things you said applicable to making poems and babies applies to doing anyting 'creat'ive.
Like they say, "Its my baby!"
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