How has poetry helped/ changed/ affected you

[billy]

I lash out at people with poetry abuse instead

i like to create my own expletives sometimes but they're not poetic

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Having a world view at all has a need for poetry of some kind. For better or worse, some people find it hard to separate the life from the work. Everything is based in creative work, your own and others'. Some motivating force, like religion, that gives you and your community a part in the maintaining of this world. For me, this kind of work is socially religious and political as it is personally loving and antagonistic. So I don't separate being human from being constantly affected by poetry. As with what people brought up in another thread, Ego; apart from my ego that lives with the poetry I make, my personal opinions dont matter much.

poetry for me is compartmentalised. it doesn't as a rule bleed into my world view. poetry has in some ways taught me to lie, or as others have said, invent new truths. i'm also on the opposite with my opinions. for me they're one of the most important tools i have; as a poet or world viewer. my ego on the other hand isn't that important, well not as far as poetry is concerned; i've learned to leave that bugger at the door when i come to poetry. in the real world i do have an ego but i tend to think that in the real world, ego serves a higher purpose.


p.s. Hi rowens, it's great to see you taking part in some of the forums.