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Poetry (I think)

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Hi,

I know some people are very averse to poetry but when I am really feeling the grip of frustration just writing out whatever comes to my head really helps. It is usually short sentences, words associating with other words. It's like my brain is so frantic it cannot form complex sentences so spits out phrases and imagery. Any way I wanted to share what I wrote tonight after a bad episode and wonder if anyone else does the same thing?

Creativity without expression.

Understanding without awareness.

Loneliness without comfort.

Words without sound.

 

Rivers without banks.

Hope without love.

Trees without roots.

Passion without foundation.

 

House without home.

Space without freedom.

Tears without meaning.

Shadows without people

  • Very good, I appreciate your poetry. 

    My personal aversion to poetry comes from school, where I was forced to read and listen to poetry on the school curriculum and then write essays about it.  I hated it and was rubbish at it.  Finally when I took my GCE O levels,  I ended up with an ungraded grade at both English language and literature. 

    I'm rubbish with my appreciation of poetry according to the expert teachers.  I hate them. (not the poetry itself)

  • I am just a bit of a poetry sceptic. I actually have a strong liking of most abstract art forms. What I reckon it is about some poetry with me is that it is basically delivered too fast for me to take it all in and personally interpret. It's like someone is talking to me so fast, and in a spoken language I haven't quite mastered, that I'm missing most of the point of what I'm hearing. (And that is something that happens quite a lot to me in 'real' life.)There are poets in my family, and I have written quite a bit myself in the past. But I have never really been able to explain to my family that I don't really understand enough of their work at the pace at which they deliver it. It seems I would really prefer a more interactive poetry environment, where I can ask for some explanation, and give my own slowtrack interpretation & feedback.

    That said, I can definitely relate to your composition above. You have succinctly given the reader a clear insight into your thought process; and perhaps even more to the point, you have done it in such a way that it has probably become a constructive process for yourself.There is a lot to be said for succinct writing; hence the continuing appeal of short story writing. There is also a lot to be said for writing it down for others to read at the speed that best matches their individual mental processing speed. (And yet I like both abstract and more direct song lyrics, even with rapid-fire delivery.) The beauty of what you have written above is that it perhaps has a Zen koan quality about it. And yet the reader really does get to understand almost immediately where you were at, at the time of writing. Keep doing that is my advice. It is obviously constructive for both yourself and others.