How to Choose the Words in a Poem

I. have this little exercise for poetry and so I ask people I said if you have poetry books get them off you know the off the bookshelf bring them to the floor get your little pad and pen you know to write some words down. A lot of people I find in these workshops that I do are people in that same energy they're they have been reprimanded in some way that teaches them to be more reserved on what they put out there. So we just do kind of like a little oval shape and I call that the word palette for the page how do you choose the words? You can't be in judgment you can't say all this not the right word yeah

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