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Thanks for introducing me to Lisa. A new poet for me ✍️✨ So relatable, how she talks about ideas coming to her at inconvenient times, like driving // feeding baby // on a walk with no phone // late at night when too tired to jot it down! Love that she didn’t properly get going until her 40’s creatively - gives me hope! 🤪

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I actually have a poem about this subject of disappearance of poem ideas 💡 I may pop it in a post here sometime

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Yeah please do, we are voraciously hungry for poems on this page. We devour them whilst ignoring our significant others, children, pets, personal hygiene… daily 🤣

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Oh this insightful and sounded like the person who lives in my head. I love how her words are masters of themselves too, like,mine, coming at inconvenient times. I also have that one poem I can’t find, it’s somewhere, I definitely wrote it down, now it’s hiding. I actually started an essay on whether lyrics are poetry only last week, talking to my singer songwriter daughter about it all. I actually wrote a poem about the from of poetry whilst I was in college. I was fed up with the tutors feeding us word and form to write with that were old fashioned and stilted. I’ll save that for Friday and try another one too.

I love Brain Bilston too, I use one of his Christmas poems about Xmas trees dropping word needles most years as my avatar on FB.

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Can I add my voice to just how bloody supportive Lisa is? I met her a couple of years ago and she's just awesome ❤

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🙌🙌

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Husband taken kids to park so what do I do?! Clean whilst I have the chance of course! Then I make myself a coffee and tell myself to sit and read and be. And then I write ✍️ Ended up doing some rhyming, so here is my 20 min. coffee poem ☕️

What is a poem?

But a deliberate,

act of penetration,

using (only) the exactly

right words.

A bubbling brain brew,

Be still and distill.

A skilful sculpting,

moulding words like clay.

What is it (exactly) you want to say?

Bright, tangible, devastating words.

From human brain to human heart.

Read them. Save them. Love them.

They are mine and they are yours.

Our shared pain. Our shared joy.

Our shared pain. Our shared joy.

Our shared pain. Our shared joy.

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I flaming love that you left the list and drank coffee writing 🙌🙌🙌

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🤣🤣 Yeah smash the patriarchy one creative choice over domestic chore at a time!

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I love this 💖💖

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Re-reading it there, I think instead of ‘Read them. Save them. Love them’ Just ‘Read them. Savour them.’ Might sound better… thoughts?

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And I think both ways work just fine, personally 👍

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Oh I just loved this ❤️

10 rules for aspiring poets was really funny 😆

I also really resonate with Lisa’s writing experience. Most of my poems come to me fully formed. But I do like playing with specific forms in workshops - oooo does anyone have any favourite poetry workshops/ classes?

I’ll give the prompt a go now - see you Friday ❤️

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I am such a fan of Lisa - her work is brilliant and she’s an amazing champion of other poets! 😍 Really love this prompt too, it’s given me lots of ideas - I’m always trying to shake off that sense of imposter syndrome that I don’t ever manage to write about nature, as if somehow that makes me not a real poet 🙈

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She is indeed brilliant. SUCH an amazing champion of other poets. Now get yourself in the garden and write about some trees, haha.

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Thanks for having me! I really enjoyed writing this and can’t wait to see people’s responses

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