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[wildsweetone]

when do your poem titles arrive?

 

[Liar]

when do your poem titles arrive?

Depends. It's sometimes a single one-liner thought that triggers the rest of the poem. Then that line becomes the title.

Other times it's added as an aftertought. Those are the trickier ones, I try to find something catchy that says something about the poem, but not too much. Those come when I sit back, re-read my6 poem and go "hmmm" for five minutes. Then *plonk*, there's a title.

 

[WickedEve]

when do your poem titles arrive?

Arrive from where? Are they... away?
I wrote a poem a couple of days ago, and it had no title. The first line wasn't working out, but it was needed, so it became the title, which worked out perfectly.

 

[vampiredust]

when do your poem titles arrive?

Somewhere between midday and afternoon by courier

 

[annaswirls]

I swear I am not doing the annoying "oh we have had threads exactly like this before" routine, I just wanted to link you to some clever folks who do not roam these halls so much anymore...

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=234570&highlight=title

and in it you will find a post from Ange with a cool link from Karmadog's (who I never knew) thread.

 

[annaswirls]

when do your poem titles arrive?

I dislike writing titles.
Sometimes I take a first line and make it the title, and start the poem with the second line. I love it when that works well.

Often I have to stare at the stupid poem until something comes up.

Every now and then the title comes first.

 

[Guest]

It must be spring - I read this thread title as titties!

 

[Tzara]

Ah, titles!

They are a real pain in the butt. I like to think they're really important. Wait—I don't like to think that, I do think that. They're harder, sometimes, to do than the poem itself. Cue the reader to the whole poetic experience. Set up what yer tryin' t'say.

I tend to end up being either overly terse (nature, Squeegee) or verbose (Climbing the Redoubt at American Camp, San Juan Island, Washington or Driving through the Skagit Valley, We See an Eagle Feeding).

The verbose ones are me slavishly (and badly) imitating James Wright, who I think wrote some of the best poem titles of all time. For example: As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor or Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me. Damn titles are so good, they're probably better than the poem they title. The man wrote awesomely good titles.

 

[RhymeFairy]

Once in a blue moon the title arrives before the poem is ever written.
Normally for me the title is the last thing I do. Just me ~

 

[My Erotic Trail]

each poem is different
some come with a title in mind before I embark on the write while other poems develope a title as I write. Only a few poems of mine have eluded me of any title, the one I just wrote for my mother for mother's day is a good example. I couldn't come up with a title but the poem was ... "for Mom!" <grin

 

[clutching_calliope]

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