I just get my inspirations from things I see, things I hear A title from a book. what I read about and I do read a lot.

You have a very interesting approach Kevin. I like it as your poems aand words are very interesting.

Val one day you may find your mnuse again I hope so,

My poetic inspirations used to come from things I'd seen or done. But I haven't had any inspiration since the poem I wrote on visiting my late Mother in the old folks home. I think it's on Poetry somewhere, lost in a back page by now.

I'd love to hear people's replies to the question of what some of their oddest inspirations for a poem were. I'll just give three quick examples of my own: My "My Time Has Come, My Girlfriend Said" poem came to me almost full-blown while I was shovelling about 8 inches of snow a few winters back. NO idea why one thing led to another like that: it just popped in my head all at once. (I hadn't even been reading "The Walrus and the Carpenter" recently, or anything.) Another time I wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Cheney" while taking a shower. That, too, came to me all at once and needed very little tweaking. In that case, I'd been singing (yes, I sing--badly!--in the shower) an old "Mad" magazine parody of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", and the next thing I knew I was writing my own parody before the water got cold, not planning to write or even thinking I was about to. And my third example: I was picking beans from my garden one afternoon when a parody of "The Modern Major General" popped into my head, pretty much full-blown. I've written other parodies of that but deliberately. This one took me by surprise. Unfortunately, I posted that to a forum that later closed, and I never had another copy of it, so it's lost in the ether.......Any road, I'd love to hear any other Poetic member's examples of their own unusual inspirations.