If you want to be preserved in your poems, the whole spectrum of your experiences needs to be recorded. What often surfaces in your mind is usually a right stuff for a poem, whether it is trifle as an insect or a daily chore. Do not hesitate to write a poem good or bad. A bad poem is better than nothing. A good poem is a spirit distilled from fermenting of raw materials, bad poems.
A good poem is often inspired by a muse. A poet is a lyre
his muse plays her tune. One hand cannot make applause. A poet has at most half
the copyright over his inspired poems. Devotional poems like Rumi’s cannot be
written without his “god in flesh”, actually Rumi signed his poems with the
name of his god as author. A poet can also be inspired by an impersonal force,
nature or Dao, rather than a muse or a god, and it creates a calm and Chan
style poems which are typical of Chinese. Without interaction with a force of
some sorts, a poet’s mind is locked in a prison.
Refuse to be intimidated by established poets dead or alive,
ancient or modern, for they were or are troubled as you are by the same dilemmas
of life, the same paralysis of inferiority, the same struggle to keep their torches alight. Each
epoch presses on the hearts that are most sensitive and induces responses,
therefore, all eras are right eras for poetry, all woods can be sources of
flames.
2015/4/19
2015/4/19
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