09-22-2025, 03:28 PM
I get the feeling that you want to write poetry, but that you are not saying the things that you really want to say because you are too aware of expectations and audience, and the 'idea' of 'Poetry'. Poetry is when you say the things you want to say but without caring about Poetry. Poetry is just an idea. You are the real thing. You are far more important and real than Poetry. I think that the centralized format signals this 'caring' (about Poetry). I think that you feel as if poetry is something special and out of the ordinary. It isn't. It is just the things that you really want to say. That is all that it is. Poetry is not work - it is effortless. It is not 'caring' - it is 'not caring'. It is not difficult. It is terribly easy. There is nothing to learn. It is the first words that come to you. Those are the only real words a body can ever have.