Poem's Inspiration A friend I have met on Google+, +Rebecca Colabot and I were discussing how we found inspiration for our poetry. She asked me a question about whether or not my poetry comes from what I feel or from my creative imagination. I'd like to share with you what I wrote in answer to her inquiry and some additional thoughts about writing poetry. All my poems come from what I feel. But I believe imagination is an important part of poetry writing and prose, for that matter. We are all a product of the things we have read. The imagination takes hold of the thoughts and feelings and we creatively write about it. So, to answer your question, I believe it takes both feelings and creative imagination to write a poem. I think inspiration can come from any source. It may come from a memory. It can be a painful memory, something that maybe we have never discussed with someone, yet a poem may allow us in some anonymous way, to reveal the dept of the pain. The m
"Always be a poet, even in prose." ~ Charles Baudelaire