What's your style?

[Flubber]

I just sit in front of blank paper and see what happens, wait for whatever the keyboard or pencil helps me produce.

Always like the haiku threads and my haiku usually start with some phrase that gets forced into the syllable stucture and the rest falls into place.

Another one of my favorite things to do is sing with the radio while I drive and change the words to all the songs. It's usually some potty humor, sex humor or a rhyme about the talentless hack singing the song but it's another outlet for the same kind of creativity as poetry writing to me.

[lindyhop]

Okay, I'll start with the guilty disclaimer that I'm not writing any poetry right now and haven't for several years but I when I do I tend to have something worked out in my head before I sit down to write anything out. I spend a lot of time in my car and I compose a lot in my head while driving. (That led to a lot of poems about driving in my car...) Unfortunately when I try to write my masterpiece down it suddenly turns into a plodding pile of words that don't make any sense. When I finally get something on paper I edit it to death, take out any unnecessary words, look for the perfect image. Sometimes there's something left.

I don't attempt rhyme or meter. I find that when I'm reading poetry or involved in a writing group, everything in my life feels like it should be a poem. Ode to the car wash, anyone?