I often refer to my muse using the personal pronouns of she/her. In truth, I have come to think of my Muse is the Holy Spirit, but to say so leads into the whole “gender of God” issue, which is not my intent here. God made us, both male and female, in His image, after all … but that’s a topic for another day, or another blog site.
In fact, I find it difficult to take full credit for the poems that I write, and am often surprised when and where a poem lands. Many times something is revealed in my compositions that I just did't see coming! Or a piece will veer in directions I hadn't anticipated.
Given my writing history of more than sixty years ... that writers go way back in my ancestry ... and the massive amount of research I've done from the beginning, one might think me a genius all unto myself. But, no. I always sense that I am writing in concert with "someone" else and that I am very much being guided along the way.
I've often cited that I don't always know what's been on my mind until I read it on the page. And, along with being surprised with the finished poem, I learn things I hadn't actually considered. I suppose it sounds like automatic writing, except that I am very much involved in word choice and so forth. This is very much a partner ship between myself and "someone"
So, I view my Muse in a somewhat classical sense: as one of the nine goddesses who embody and inspire literature, science, and the arts, serving as the source of knowledge for poetry and song . No Greek goddesses were ever involved in my work, but you get what I mean.
That being said, I look foreward to what's next on "our" poetical agenda.
In fact, I find it difficult to take full credit for the poems that I write, and am often surprised when and where a poem lands. Many times something is revealed in my compositions that I just did't see coming! Or a piece will veer in directions I hadn't anticipated.
Given my writing history of more than sixty years ... that writers go way back in my ancestry ... and the massive amount of research I've done from the beginning, one might think me a genius all unto myself. But, no. I always sense that I am writing in concert with "someone" else and that I am very much being guided along the way.
I've often cited that I don't always know what's been on my mind until I read it on the page. And, along with being surprised with the finished poem, I learn things I hadn't actually considered. I suppose it sounds like automatic writing, except that I am very much involved in word choice and so forth. This is very much a partner ship between myself and "someone"
So, I view my Muse in a somewhat classical sense: as one of the nine goddesses who embody and inspire literature, science, and the arts, serving as the source of knowledge for poetry and song . No Greek goddesses were ever involved in my work, but you get what I mean.
That being said, I look foreward to what's next on "our" poetical agenda.
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