Fifteen poems

I am feeling rather excited, realizing I have written 15 poems already. I kind of set myself a target for 20, though I think a book needs to be at least 70 pages long. These poems are all about 600 or 700 words each – more in some cases, so my word count is getting up there.

When I have written 20, I think I will start looking to see just how close a book is. At the start of writing, when I only had three or four poems written, 20 seemed a long way off. I remember being stuck for ideas, the only one coming, being of a cow. I knew I would have to write this, which I did, only to be followed by two other cow stories.

Trusting my instincts is something I have learnt to do while writing these blogs. I am not doing them so often lately, perhaps one or two a week, whereas in the past I was writing them most days. If an idea came into my head and I didn’t want to write it for whatever reason, the idea would stay and nothing else would come into my mind until I did write it. It was the same with that first cow poem. I had wracked my brains for other ideas, but that was all I could come up with. Once written, heaps of other ideas flowed, including the other two cow ones. And it is the same with my blogs. It is almost like there is a higher power guiding me in my writing. You will write that, or do this first, or whatever.

But I do like the idea of guidance. I believe that all writers channel to some extent and that it is not always our own brains where the creativity comes from, that sometimes, we are tapping into a higher collective consciousness.

I haven’t even thought of ideas for my other five poems, I have been busy just writing the ideas coming into my head, but I trust the others will leap out at me in due course.

Month by month, I have been sharing these poems when we have our meeting. These seem to have been reasonably well-received, giving me the inspiration to write more. But they are not critique sessions, perhaps if they were, I might get disheartened again.

But anyway, as I explained in a previous blog, I have seen the finished book in meditation. It does get there. So I will keep writing.