I write because I get ideas. When you take an idea into writing it travels much further than it does if you just keep thinking.
An idea then, is a starting point for writing. The object in writing is to clarify the idea. Get it out and solid.
Sometimes you get an idea and expand it into writing and it goes way away from the idea into either another idea or something else entirely.
If we can call the action of writing like walking and when we get to being really lucid in the writing the walking along becomes jogging.
When the idea doesn’t get clarified, or when the idea doesn’t change clearly, when the writing starts to skip along or dance or fly, the writing becomes poetry.
You would like, I would like for the writing to morph into poetry more often than it does because when the writing becomes poetry it seems to be able to carry much more meaning, more substance than just writing.
You want, I want the world fuller of this expanded meaning because culture grows faster with poetry than it does with prose.
Poetry allows for cultural transformation. It feeds into the collective unconscious like Seasol boosts the growth of plants more than just plain water does.
Also as a bonus but not a primary motivation is that when the writing does take off into something else it promotes the release of chemicals in the brain which causes pleasure for the writer.
Poetry can release endorphins or whatever they are and also, in my case, I get to have a sense of completion, fulfilment, identity. This feeling allows me to get to sleep quicker.
Note: Sometimes you have to get to the end of reading before you know what the thing you just read is.