Earlier today a friend, and fellow poet, Thom Ingram posted a tweet on Twitter that said:
“You Can” for @WillBrown at http://poetguru.com“
Rightfully intrigued, I followed the link and found a poem entitled “You Can” for Will Brown.
It was a short poem that I interpret to mean that you should always be ready to receive inspiration. Not only that, but to somehow capture the thought, the seed, and save it for later. For a time when you can be alone and plant that thought again in your mind.
But that was not the important part.
The greater realization came from the fact that Thom reached out to inspire a fellow poet.
As poets, in order to be effectively inspired, we must link arms with other poets. Friends that, whenever you have any contact with them, ask you if you are writing. Gordon Buss asked me this very question a couple of days ago in an email. I was inspired then as well.
But inspiration can only go so far. As Thom says in the last lines of the poem: “Your pen before ink runs dry. Sins to just think.”
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Will tells half the story. Indeed it was his post http://www.cloudydayart.com/2010/04/13/the-only... that was the writing prompt for me. But then again, that is how inspiration works. It is passed among us, like disease or love or a bottle. Shared. Inspired. Comes out everywhere. Art is not a lonely business. That is just the bubkus they tell you. It is communal. Like love.
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