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# How Do You Get Your Ideas
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/how-do-you-get-your-ideas/
- Published: 2024-01-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I'm often asked: how do you pick a subject for this or that unlikely composition? A tired, stale cliche, or just an object that's placed in an unusual position.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I'm often asked: how do you pick a subject  
for this or that unlikely composition?  
A tired, stale cliche, or just an object  
that's placed in an unusual position.

A dialog between two silent partners  
so caught in an unlikely dialectic  
that the ensuing conversation garners  
reactions from the rad to apoplectic.

Attempts to wax poetically are often  
too maudlin to earn their weight in paper.  
Eschew the urge to decorate and soften.  
Ethereal, like tiny whisps of vapor

is great for a deodorant commercial.  
I aim for the bizarre and controversial.