Unusual Ways of creating poetry

By Ilse Kramer

Susan wrote her rhyming couplets about fall by jotting down the individual couplets in

various parts of the house. She then went from room to room, gathered up the pieces of

paper and fit them together as in a jigsaw puzzle.

The Poet Laureate remembers thinking about her leaky ceiling an and related problems

one night before going to sleep. The next morning she did not remember any dreams at

all but became aware of a brand-new poem in her mind. All she had to do was to write it

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down and make two or three minor corrections.

Consciously we may think about ceilings, while subconsciously our brain is busy

working on something else altogether.

It looks like the creative forces that form the stories which our dreams consist of,

apparently are capable of dealing with words and putting them together in poetry.

Ilse is the Poet Laureate at Central Congregational Church. She had deep thoughts even as a toddler.