pinerow
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Thu May-05-05 03:38 PM
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Why I Write 2 Ramon Pinero 12/09/2004
it is no wonder at least to me as to why writers do what they do why they lay bare all those inside secrets inside pains those inside horrors that we face everyday.
for some it is the only path to sanity (or what some have come to call, reality)
for others it is the lifeline needed in order to hang on. in order to breathe in order to taste the wonder that is a well-placed kiss the beauty that is the sunset or the birth of another day.
there are those who write without emotion and others with too much.
I write cause god tells me to.
every time the gleam in my little girls eyes illuminates the path ahead.
whenever my boys give me that “I didn’t do it” look and cannot tell the truth not realizing that the deeper they do the harder it gets.
I write because the women in my life have somehow managed to look past the asshole I was and allowed the man in me to thrive and most of all to survive.
they have given me the gift that grows exponentially every time you give it away freely.
I write because of a little girl who looks at me with eyes of wonderment and smiles so bright the sun must take a back seat and Aphrodite and Diana step to the side allowing her beauty the center stage she deserves.
I write because of that nappy hair those big brown eyes that redbone beauty and Masai princess that Ibo queen and Aztec prince who god has blessed me with.
I write because the words that flow today will be carried by my grand children to their children and then to their children and thus, I will be immortal.
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Thu May-05-05 04:06 PM
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you have a priceless gift
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Thu May-05-05 04:35 PM
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Thu May-05-05 04:16 PM
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2. Once I wrote poems for just 'cause I wanted to |
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Then in periods of depression I wrote too much emotion-let it all hang out poems many of which were destroyed in a fire.
I wrote 'Batten' a few weeks ago. I have no plans for more poetry.
Just as well I suspect.
It is good I do not write for a living.
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Thu May-05-05 04:18 PM
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3. oneighty...poems are rarely planned...they just sort of happen... |
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Thu May-05-05 04:30 PM
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4. Yes that is my experience |
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Like a flowing well gushing. Water. You ever see a flowing well?
I have a SEAL friend that is part South American Indian. I must check to see which one. He speaks an ancient language too he tells me.
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Thu May-05-05 08:30 PM
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6. "I have no plans for more poetry" --- ah, but what if the poetry has |
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plans for you?
Several years ago I went on a writing retreat with a bunch of teachers -- (I was a teacher at the time) -- I went, fully intending to work on fiction and non-fiction. I thought I was "done" with my childhood poems (a couple which I've posted here) which I wrote while in a graduate poetry class.
Was I wrong. And did the poems take me to places I didn't think I wanted to go. I would say that perhaps the poet never chooses the poem. The poem chooses the poet.
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