> Wolf "Hope I understood correctly what your poem was 'really about'" spirit

Well, if you ask me, that's one of the absolutely LEAST important aspects of poetry -- at least my poems. I try to write in such a way that people can put their own private thoughts into it and maybe -- or rather hopefully -- get something entirely new from it. My job, as I write, is to present the reader with a new angle, a new perspective, something I see which hasn't been seen before in just that way. Then it's up to my abilities as a writer of poems to conjure new pictures in the reader's mind.


Trav"Spooky... I had trouble finding even the appropriate *Norwegian* expression to use in the last sentence. Then suddenly the word "conjure" popped into my mind, and I had to look it up. It seems it was excactly what I wanted... This strikes me as spooky because there's English words I haven't used before and really don't know the definition of, but somehow I'm able to use them right anyway. This has happened to me quite a few times lately..."holt, taking in-name quotes to the extreme.