Writing with your brain or heart?

I've been writing poems for as long as i can remember but even though i'm not that good at it, i know i write them better than my friends and when they ask me how i do it i always say it's cuz i write from the heart and not the brain...that sounds really lame i know but its the only explanation i can give about it. Does anyone else here feel like they write better when its their emotions doing the talking rather than just looking for things that rhyme?

hey, i dont kno if im the only one but when i try to write poems from the brain I just cant and if i do thety arent as good...but when i write from the heart they seem better and come quicker...like i dont even want to write but i need to and i just start wring and out comes a poem lol..well good luck!!

If im stuck for anything to write, where every word I write feels phony and hollow, I usualy stop for a minute, close my eyes and listen to anything thats going on around me. A dog barking down the road, a neighbours music, the fizz of the hard drive, a conversation from the next room.Then I write down a list of the things iv heard. At this moment i can hear a commercial jingle on the tv and a people talking in the next room. Mix them together and you have something like er...` the music of your voice` oh dear, bad example maybe but even a bad line is a start. it dosnt have to be just something you hear it could be the titles of your favourite cd`s jumbled together. Experiment. Your words are only ever going to be whats in your mind, your views, experiances and opinions.Things that are relevant to you. So focus on your thoughts. Dont know if this has helped.

writing a poem comes from the heart

Always write with your heart, im my opinion that is where your true character emerges from..just let it all flow.

Totally. When im either really sad or really happy the words just tend to flow onto the page w/out having to think about them. Thats also when i tend to write my best poems [@least i think so ;)] because i pour my heart and soul out and put a lot of emotion into them. I think that when you write w/ur heart like that, it really shows up in ur writing. So i totally agree w/u on that.

I agree with both sides....

I do think there is something special about poems that come from the heart. Yes, of course we all use our brain to some extent... it tells our hand to write, it recalls how to spell words. But it's more than that... it does in fact help put what's in your heart into words..any words...rhyming or not. I think what people mean by writing with your brain, not your heart is that you write with out an overly powerful emotion on the subject... and it CAN be done....

I can't really find any difference. Whenever my mind comes up with something to write about, my heart kicks in and I write down my feelings. Then I take what my heart spewed out, and my brain looks through it. Seems to me like sometimes they are inseperable, and should probably be that way.

Yeah, What Sean said...(I just like agreeing with everyone)

I do think you can't really (no shouldn't) try to separate brain and heart writing... The one thing I stick to, though is that you (or some people) don't require 1st hand experience to write a perfectly good, heart-felt poem.

personally i dont know if there's any way to write a poem with your brain... i just dont think its possible.... and if it is... i wouldnt really call it a poem... poetry has to do with emotions and emotions come from the heart not the brain....
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Manda Lynn

I can do both but the ones from my heart are always better than the ones from my head

Its both I think. You write the meaning from your heart, and your brain is what brings it together to make it sound good. Without your heart, the poem would mean nothing. Without your brain, you would just have a bunch of unconnected feelings.

I'd have to agree, I feel my poems turn out Better when I write them from the heart, most of my poems are true, real things in my life, I find them easier to write cause I put my heart into them more

I write mine from the heart and use the brain only to make them ryhme, but for the most part that come naturally if I really care what I'm writing about. My heart says someting and my brain interperts. Or sometimes my brain thinks a thought and my heart carries it on for lines and lines.

It all depends on you, I guess, but if you write with the heart, it will turn out allright no matter what.

absolutely.. i try to write when my emotions are running high, because then your brain doesnt really process it, it just comes from the heart and alot of times its better spoken that way.
-shawna

I write from my brain. I lost connections with my heart a long time ago.

I write from my brain. I lost connections with my heart a long time ago. Some say this is why I can never be a truly fantastic poet, but I dont know.

course u write from ur brain and heart :)

i agree w/ steven
it comes from both

If I'm not feeling it
I can't write it.

I agree with the last couple of people. If you can't feel it you can't write it....if you can't think it you can't feel it so you can't write. So of course you write with you brain and your heart.

Of course you do that's why it's all CRAP.

I believe that every good writer uses both. Your heart tells you what you feel, and what needs to be written, while your brain puts it all together and makes it look good on paper.
-Kate

Natalie...haha...you goo girl....haha thats sum funny stuff...

write with your heart cause you can get the emiotin across once you have it writen down then go back and edit it and make it flow with more rythem thats how i mostly do it.

~lil slam~

I never do rhymes. It prohibits my ability to say what I wanna say, and I don't like that. Also, I use my brain to interpret what my heart is telling me. Otherwise it's just a crazy mix of stupid words that don't really affect me.

well said David. I totally agree with u.

i agree with yu 100%