Trusting the inner voice …

… ‘I strive to bring the unimaginable into my poetry and into readers’ ordinary lives’. (Hat tip, G.E. Reutter.)

Poets are not prophets or journalists, but artists of a visual language, words their medium. Fear of being misunderstood is the greatest obstacle, so one inevitably begins to write for an audience rather than for oneself. Working in this manner only creates predictable and static poetry, obsessed in getting our message across, as if this is the poet’s only pursuit, but the inner voice is the only voice the poet can truly trust.