09-10-2012, 10:37 AM
i suppose it depends on how we define happy. i do feel some kind of contentment when i write what i think is a decent poem, and a sadness when one dumps like a turd.but i don't need poetry to be happy. it's just one of the the many things that bolster me being happy, even if it's a sad poem.(which i'm sure is some kind of paradox). i don't really do personal poetry which in some ways makes me a non poet 
. i'm still not sure what poetry is, and if i'm told what it is i probably won't believe any pat answers. i think the best poets wrote about how they saw things, and not necessarily how the things they saw made them feel. they wrote a poem full of emotion without being emotionally involved. it's why i like haiku so much. the things are just observations retold. there's no real pain even when something dies. the sun shone on the bed, my mum died, we buried her...it's all clinical but if done write the reader adds their own emotions. that's the poetry i like. the stuff where i put my own salt and pepper to it.
. i'm still not sure what poetry is, and if i'm told what it is i probably won't believe any pat answers. i think the best poets wrote about how they saw things, and not necessarily how the things they saw made them feel. they wrote a poem full of emotion without being emotionally involved. it's why i like haiku so much. the things are just observations retold. there's no real pain even when something dies. the sun shone on the bed, my mum died, we buried her...it's all clinical but if done write the reader adds their own emotions. that's the poetry i like. the stuff where i put my own salt and pepper to it.