Metacognition: Poem

While working on the poem, or any kind of writing, I have to get into a certain sense of mind... where the ideas flow. It helps to be a little tired or just relaxed because then the ideas come easier. It seems strange how random my thoughts are... at least for this poem. The stanzas or lines that I was really happy with seemed to come from nowhere and there were still a couple things that I wanted to change but could not decide how to. Sometimes I guess thats how my brain works. Not necissarily with or against me, just there. Usually my mind is pretty effective, especially during writing; ideas and words just coming so that I am writing almost constantly. The night I was writing my poem was a bit strange though, but I'll just blame that on being distracted. I like my thinking while writing (usually) because its not difficult, confusing, or hard. Writing is hard work, but I do not have to think too hard to write. Writing is calming, but if I can't get into it, if my thougths have no time to start culminating and coming together, it becomes an unwanted task, homework. In Sophie's World, Sophie is taught that insight comes from the inside, and that true learning must come from the inside as well. Writing is like that (at least for me). Whatever it is that produces those moments of insight in class or in life; the same place must produce my thoughts. Wouldn't it be nice if we could somehow bolt open that door in our mind all the time, to have sudden and instantanious insight about... everything all the time? That would be too easy though, wouldn't it...