Hey Covers,
We’ve all got them—the poems that start off strong but then fizzle out, or the ones we half-write and just can’t seem to finish. Some sit quietly in a notebook or on a forgotten file, waiting for us to revisit them… or maybe they’re left to gather dust forever!
What’s your process when it comes to unfinished or “abandoned” poems? Do you regularly go back and try to rework them, or do you prefer to leave them be? Have you ever rediscovered an old draft and turned it into something completely new?
I’d love to know how you handle these stray poems. Are they part of your creative process, or do you just move on and write something fresh? Let’s chat about it—maybe you’ll even be inspired to rescue a forgotten gem from your own drawer!
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Mine all live in my head, and a Gogle drive folder called 'unfinsihed poems'. Sometimes a word or a form will spark new life for them, others I will be writing something new then fold the old one into the new in a new way. Many of these latter ones you have read on this forum.
They are a resource, a building block to keep in the storeroom until you find the part it was missing or the hole it fills.