I recently put message in the Poetry thread with a little Haiku (a Japanese poetic form 3 lines totalling 17 syllables). Ok so perhaps it wasn't very good perhaps it was but the circumstances of writing it seemed a little Fortean for I was compelled to write it and compelled is not too strong a word.
The last line came into my head and I needed to put it into some visible form. For an instant I thought it was a beginning to a rhymed poem. Then the first and second line as concepts which I had to play with but they had to be written, it was rather like I imagine receiving a spirit message might be.
Now I've felt this compulsion to write things in this way before, there were a couple of folk songs, something amusing for an entertainment a letter to someone who needed cheering but always the same compulsion following a few lines coming into my head.
Now the Greeks had a word for it, a spirit that sat on your shoulder or took over your body to perform some act, they called it a genius
Does anyone else know of people who have felt the same or has anyone here had similar experiences?
The link to the thread is here if you really want it
The last line came into my head and I needed to put it into some visible form. For an instant I thought it was a beginning to a rhymed poem. Then the first and second line as concepts which I had to play with but they had to be written, it was rather like I imagine receiving a spirit message might be.
Now I've felt this compulsion to write things in this way before, there were a couple of folk songs, something amusing for an entertainment a letter to someone who needed cheering but always the same compulsion following a few lines coming into my head.
Now the Greeks had a word for it, a spirit that sat on your shoulder or took over your body to perform some act, they called it a genius
Does anyone else know of people who have felt the same or has anyone here had similar experiences?
The link to the thread is here if you really want it