oooooo, I like it!!!!!

very intense sabrina- cuts like a knife !~ how did you come up with the idea? i'm curious ! 

babs

@ all of you: thank you for your reads of comments!

@ Babs: how did I come up with the idea? well, now, I tell you,

if I tell you, I will have to kill you...lol...NOT...jk

sometimes, when I write, I like to write "outside of myself", so to speak. to do this,

I will pick an object, or at times, an historical figure.  i use it as poetical exercise

and to get me going when I've been in a creative slump. some might call this

channeling. I call it, role playing...lol...anyway, the other night, I was watching

a documentary on the art and craft of sword making. fascinating! while I am watching a swordsmith create a sword, I start wondering,

if the sword he is making, had a voice, what would it say? (not, what would I say, if

I were a sword...but, if the sword had a voice, what would it say? big difference)

grabbed a pen and paper and started "listening" for the sword's voice...I know...

sounds kind of creepy, but, you asked...ggglgggl...of course, I actually played with this piece a couple of days before I posted it. sometimes, when doing this, it's like taking notes at a lecture and later working them into a cohesive poem...others, the poem just writes itself, immediately...it's kind of like taking dictation...lol...i dunno...

try it. it's fun. it's freeing. and you can use anything as your subject matter...no limits...

no inhibitions...in your head, ask the object/person what it would like to say and then "listen" and write what you hear in your head and just let it flow...