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when i get comments on my poem there is one thing that i always notice ,its that people who read my poems most of them say “yeah i can feel what you are going through ,everything is gonna be alright ” and things like this ..then i think that are they saying right i mean do i really feel what i have written or its just imagination ..i get so confused so this is something that i wanna ask you  …should any author really experience what he/she write …???

Do you HAVE TO experience what you write? I feel that would be a good question to ask a paid author. “When someone pays you to write something and you have to meet a deadline and formulate your words to fit their concepts, do you have to experience what you write?” Personally I have experienced most of my poems; however, I wrote a poem about gold panning and I have never panned for gold, nor had I lived in the era I wrote of—so there is always room for imagination. If you are writing about pain you never had and it causes other people to feel for you, then maybe you have a gift there—that you can use words that get to a person's heart and thoroughly describe pain in a way they can relate to. Of corse I would have to see what you wrote. That's my take on things anyway. Maybe you should let people know that something is from your mind if that is the case, so they won't go on feeling sorry for you—or else it may backfire on you when you become steeped in what has become lore—a lie, even though you may not have intended it to go that far. IMHO I'm only going on what you provided.

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