Precious Poetry

6.5 - From PROBLEM to POEM in 7 Steps

Author's note: How to start? How to go on? What to add when? We recorded the painful process of writing this problem-poem and share our original thoughts and mental notes with you, unedited and uncensored, even noncense when they made no cense little sense. The structure, [7 chapters] plus (in italic capitals) paragraphs, is an important element of the artistic work, but this is a shareware book, so you're free to copy it and find out if it works for you. One final thought: this isn't «top-down management» but rather a page with places to jot down incoming ideas in a more-or-less structured way.

[1: THEME]

the image we have of ourselves or our own work might be different in the eyes of others.

so many wonderful people think too negative about themselves, «I'm not good enough», even while others have a positive image of them. of course, it's good to be honest and open, to give others a compliment more often and say you love them, and of course, we shouldn't waste time worrying but start to work and improve our character, and of course, the outside seems more important than the inside but the opposite is true...

WORKING TITLE

image => imagination... image-I-nation

format => formation

[2: ASSOCIATIONS]

VERBS, SENSES & EMOTIONS

mirror: we see ourselves in a mirror, a reflection, while others see us like we are. think how your voice sounds strange when you hear it from a recording.

image/format is the Show-Don't-Tell tool: it's better to Show-AND-Tell, explain the image.

formation is education, learning how to do something. this has a link with «how to write poetry».

image - I - Nation... in modern society, «I» is getting more important while «Nation» (society) goes from bad to worse. imagine the effect that the I-image has on society. when you invest all your time in Facebook or in make-up and clothes, nothing in character or learning social skills, just shouting: "Look at ME! I'm FABULOUS!" instead of asking others if you can help them...

image is everything?

format is important to understand the content?

[3: RESEARCH]

SYNONYMS

paint - painting - colour - presentation

RHYME WORDS

paint - faint - restraint

ANTONYMS

it seems we're at a dead end...

[4: INSIGHT]

GOOD IDEAS START HERE

this is poetry-class, not philosophy-class. our topic isn't the image of people. our topic is the image, the format, the 'make-up' that we give to our poem, hoping it will look the same when our readers see it, but... they might read it on a pc or a tablet or a mobile phone, with windows or android or apple, with one of the millions of programs to read one of the thousands of formats in which our text might be sent around. will my fancy font and my background colour still be there when my reader gets my text?