Leslie Fiedler

Poetry...?

When you write poetry, do you tend to write more about fictional things or real things you've seen or experienced?

Public Comments

1. Real things or about things I see or think about.
2. i usually write right after something happens to me, and i put all that emotion into a poem that expresses what just happened.
3. A mix. Someone once said that occasionally you have to lie to get at the truth.
4. mostly likely a mixture of both.
5. I think about the things I've heard in real life, though they are not necessarily real things.
6. i build fiction upon what ive already experienced/seen/felt/thought
7. Whats really interesting is that I was discussing this with a friend and thinking about it quite a bit. I believe that the majority of people write about their immediate surroundings or about experiences. I have been trying to steer away form that. Sometimes, embellishing certain details or changing some memories are the best way to get your message across.