Some Thoughts About Poetry

[jadedinnocent]

I don't know if anyone else here yet writes poetry but I hope you will start to share it if you do.

I often find it difficult to share poetry, more than stories, I feel it is very intimate and revealing. It often bares ones soul. I find the ones if feel the most like this about are the ones people like the best. Still it is hard to show that.

I wondered if anyone else feels this way about their poetry. Is this why people hesitate to share?

Poetry usually comes to me in a rush and must be written down at once or else it is usually "gone", "lost". I may change a few things later but it is usually not much. For me a poem is what it is from my soul.

Occasionally it may be silly or a whim of fancy rather than serious. I rarely "set out" to write a poem about a certain thing with for-thought. The inspiration just arrives as it will when my muse strikes me and I must work it out then.

Don't know where I was intending to go with all this, except I hope others will share and that I will become comfortable to show you more of mine.

[.::Sith::Bitch::.]

Actually, I find it to be the other way around for me. I'll share my poetry before I share my stories. (Except in this case on here where I shared my stories more than I shared my poetry)

But, the reason because is...my stories are more intimate than my poetry. True, my poetry is of thoughts and feelings. But my stories, believe it or not, come from past experiences, dreams, and fantasies.

I'm not afraid to share thoughts and feelings (sometimes) but dreams and fantasies and such....those are a little bit more personable to me therefore, it's hard for me to share.

And I think people are usually scared to share poetry is because well....they don't write it. Most people think it's a waste of time or are too scared to write something like poetry because it seems whimpy or chicken. But what those same people fail to understand is, they speak poetry everyday. The angry words, the sad words, and the happy words that they speak to their friends, family, etc., those could be written down and...voila!...poetry. *chuckles*

[barbayat]

I actually don't like poetry much as a concept at all because most verses basically mean nothing to me ...

If people like to express t hemselves through that medium, fine, but I seldom read them because they give me nothing 999 times of 1000.

I just rather scream out my passions and focus on putting them into prose when I am less stressed ... besides my thoughts are often pretty unorganised so if I was to write what I feel down it would be a terrible mess that only I could decypher - so why bother to write it down?

If people want to know how I feel they can ask me, or study my stories, as they are revealing my inner self quite a great deal. In fanfic I explore fantasies and live dreams I will never have in reality and I guess a small part of me is in almost all my OCs.

*lol* I just remembered that so far I only liked one very short poem, but it is in German so I can't present it to you ...

[Bam]

Well, if your thoughts are unorganized, it still wouldn't matter. Poetry is not always written in a certain "organized" way. If it were, there wouldn't be many poets out there; past, present, and future.

I mean, take Shakespeare, Marlowe, Poe, Chan, King for instance. All of their poems and such didn't necessarily make sense and most of the time where scribbled and jumbled thoughts about love, sorrow, sunshine and shit.

Usually, when people write poetry, it doesn't make sense to anyone but it doesn't matter. As long as it makes sense to them. When you write a poem, it's not for anyone to make sense out of it or to even learn a lesson fromit. It's for you to just share your thoughts and to vent.

[Tempted Saint]

*nods* Well put Bam. I personally am not into poetry persay, most def don't ever write it. But I think I agree with what you said Bam. *nods*