What makes you poetic?

This is the place for readers of poetry. Discuss poetry and literary art. You can also discuss music here, including lyrics. Also, you can discuss poets themselves, in addition to poetry.
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Sad to say some of my best poems were right after the death of a very close friend in high school
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my poetry comes from my emotion at the moment it is written.
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The daily struggles make me poetic and heartbreak but LOVE is the strongest booster that I have used to create some awesome poems in my book.
Though I walk by day, I treasure my nights with you.
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I don't write many poems but since it was you brought it up it occurred to me that the majority of poems I've written are about memories of the past taken either from real life or fictitious inventions.
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I think being a truly poetic person has to do with your soul, not anything materialistic. However, if I had to guess, pain and experience contribute to my most poetic moments.
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I am not very poetic. I have never written poems for fun. I have put together a few as assignments in classes but have always found that writing prose is what I enjoy. I do, however, believe that a large and varied vocabulary and an ability to be descriptive is an important aspect of being poetic.
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Being poetic originates from the heart. It is filled with experiences, emotions and some of our deepest thoughts. Being poetic sometimes relieves the writer of negative energy and thoughts. Being poetic allows the writer to jot down on paper what they can't communicate to others. It provides the writer with an outlet which can be a form of therapy and healing of scars that prevent us from moving forward in life. It is also a means to share with other readers through words of harmony and fears and tears.
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High doses of painkillers...
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As you said, strong feelings, in fact any kind of strong emotion
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What makes me poetic is when I think of the past, present and circumstances of today. It just make you want to write from the heart.
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Hearing others' poetry, for sure! Especially very 'poetic', descriptive songs. Powerful images, whether just described or actually witnessed by myself, help, as well.
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Listening to romantic music make me poetic.
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Words make me poetic. Nothing gives me more pleasure than arranging words on a blank screen. To me how something is written is as important as what is written.

Sadly, today's writers are advised to "stay out of the text." Readers, I'm told, don't like it when the writer "butts into the story." I'm an anomaly: I read in part to connect with the author, to get inside their head. I love stylists like Raymond Chandler, and consider myself a stylist. I want to be recognized for my "voice." I love a perfectly crafted sentence, one that makes me go back to reread it, wish I'd written it. So what if it takes me momentarily out of the story? Commercials take me out of my favorite nighttime drama, but I don't enjoy the program any less, so why should I mind a writer's style taking me out of the story?
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Strong feelings, inspiration from the literature I read and music make me poetic. I love to play with words so I always write poetry in my thoughts.
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Overwhelming emotion. I don't start writing poetry until I'm practically non-functional as a person.
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