How to write a poem.

1. Write poem in draft (with whatever comes into head first).

2. Leave for a bit

3. Make the poem stupidly verbose and complicated

4. Leave for a bit

5. Take out stupid complicated metaphors

6. Leave for a bit

7. Repeat indefinitely

8. Forget what poem was originally about

9. Realise the first draft was probably the best anyway.

10. Give up.

 

Grumble… Writer’s block.