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[ellajam]

Hi,

I'm a 25-year-old songwriter currently experiencing a writer's block. I turned to poetry because I've recently discovered the concept of bibliotherapy (... Yes, at 25, ... I guess that's because Nevada public education sucks.). I'm hoping that somehow by magic ('cause that's how it works here in the real world, right?) poetry could solve my problems with finding my voice and writing melodies.

To be frank, so far all poetry seems to me like self-indulgent exercises in cryptography/cryptology/whatever, a triumph of style over substance, disdain for communication, treating the meaning of the poem as something subordinate. Please, prove me wrong. I just don't see anything galvanizing about it.

Thanks in advance,

- Andrey.

Try the Poems You Love thread in Poetry Discussion. If nothing there moves you maybe poetry is not for you and you can collaborate with a lyricist.

Oh, and hi, Alic, welcome to the site, both of you, I hope you enjoy it.