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From: Jim Abbott
Date: 10/9/01
Time: 4:21:55 AM
Remote Name: 209.14.92.41
Judy - yeah, sometimes I do get lucky and the words do seem to just flow. "Destiny" was one of those.I wrote one at work yesterday, entitled "Fluency", which also just seemed to suddenly happen. Sometimes, as was the case for both "Maybe Tommorrow" and "A Prison Of My Very Own", I had to put the poems down, step back and walk away for a couple of months. Then out of the blue, they both came to me. Then they flowed like water. As far as discovering something about myself thru poetry, I can't say that I have, as I did a whole lot of self psycho analysis on the road to accepting the fact that I stuttered. It was there were I did all of my self discovery. Perhaps that is what freed me and allowed me to begin writing. Not exactly what you were talking about, but I wrote a poem called "Speaking To My Stutter (We Met At Long Last.)In it, I spoke to my stuttered speech as if it was a person. I knew that I had hated my stuttering with a passion, but still, when I was finished, as I was reading it, I was kinda surprised with what I had written. It was almost as if I was looking at my own life from the prespective of someone else. Very Strange.