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(un)limited

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My thoughts are caged

creativity contained

an imperfect box of
twenty-six letters
and nearly countless words
of a language that fails
to fill my vocabulary

meaning isn't enough

the context of a placement
a storm or a gentle susurration
a zephyr or a hurricane
this is no typhoon
just a natural waterfall

back and forth

like cutting wood
or a conversation
snipped short
I've lost my retort
it's died on my lips
along with my inspiration

I used to love
the limitless until
I realized

It's in the limitations
that a story can be made
I've realized that writing a story isn't about being unlimited, it's about choosing the limitations. Making your own boundaries. Once you create a character, and they're placed in the context of a plot, a place, a storyline, once they have a personality and appearance, then those are the boundaries you've created. Creating is about taking the limitless and confining them into a space you'll then label as 'poetry', 'prose', 'art'... or such are my thoughts at this time, anyways.
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doubleyah's avatar
That's very perceptive. I mean your creative process. I wrote about mine. It was not too much different. I add meaning after it is created. Call it the "big bang" idea for creativity.