What's Your Inspiration? Comments

What a lovely thought provoking poem. It's the first one of yours I've read. As someone who just tries to write poetry for fun, you and others like you inspire me with the magical pictures you paint. To love and to be loved, happiness and sorrow all these things inspire me, Thank you for helping me, John

Mary, great question to end a great poem! My answer, if I had to choose one, would be heartache... and then I kind of branch out from there. Brian

MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSIIIIICCCCCCCC! And pretty landscapes: -D And... things I hate... we'll not go into that. Very nice read, Mary. - K.

Great poem, I feel like it was me.

Simple and true. And very inspiring :) Julia

Alright I'll tell you, things that we do and People like you! God Bless..................Love Duncan

Mary I never came across a poem asking an opinion on our personal reasons for our inspiration. but i see you got quite a responce.' I suppose mine is trying to let people know how i feel about the world, and really how i would like to see it.Perhaps I'm just a dreammer'

This poem is an awesome piece thank you for the good read....and Thank you for the comments on my work.

I agree with Anna. Plus I write because I am COMPLETELY loopy. my poem 'how I describe my poems' is partly discribe why I write, wonderful poets like you is the other part. liz

Sorrow is my true face, loneliness is my inspiration, I always fear that poetry will just vanish as I cry.

What a GREAT POEM. I just love it! ! ! Happy New Year to All Ray

Usually, a line in my head, or an action in front of my eyes, or a picture, a movement, actually anything can suddenly start my mind flowing with words. As the dictionary explains it ' A sudden or timely idea' - 'The divine influence supposed to have led to the writing of the Bible' - 'Inhalation' - 'The process or quality of being inspired' - 'A person or thing that inspires'. There you have it, but it still doesn't explain where it all comes from? Back to the question! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Love Ernestine XXX I loved the poem, as usual your brilliant write.

Very nicely put, Mary. I still think I have a muse...because poems come to me out of nowhere...but I am sure to write a poem after listening to a lot of Cole Porter lyrics. In fact, after watching 'DeLovely, ' a film about Cole Porter's life, I sat down and wrote three poems in a row...none necessarily connected to his work. Just one of my inspirations. :) Bless you. Raynette

I like that you get both sides, the up and down, of inspiration. I think the down side may not be the sorrow or depression itself, but the desire to come out of isolation about it...but there may be many dimensions of it.

Well done, Mary! It's so funny, but I used to write all the time, then life happened. lol So for years I didn't write, and for years nothing inspired me to write. No ideas woke me in the middle of the night. No lines of prose popped into my brain begging to be written down. But I've recently rediscovered the love, and I find that now that my mindset is centered around writing again the words find me - as it's always been in my case. I don't seek them out, but rather the opposite. Lovely, thought-provoking poem. A 10 from me. Shannon

You had to ask. Well you have got some response and it's only 30 minutes since you posted this. I'm sure there are more being thought up as I write. Brilliant question Mary, an inspiration in itself.

A well presented question Mary. Musing the Muses. Excellent.

Great, Mary. You are outing yourself a bit much but that is okay. Best H

Hey Mary, If it exists on our planet, I am inspired to write about it. If it is important enough to be here someone should write about it. Even the lowly egg. Smiles. Rusty

This is it Mary, What insipres me: All my friends, And my family, My aching heart, Be it full or empty! Things I love, And things that tempt me. Beautiful things, Some memories, Generally Whatever I please! But this time Mary This is true, My inspiration Came from you!