I Am In/Stead

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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.

Hello, tun, please take a moment to read over our site rules. In the critique forums, please only critique the actual poem. Critiquing the poet (or their beliefs, ideals, philosophy, etc) is not permitted in any of the poetry forums outside the sewer.  Feel free to put comments like this in a pm (for private advice), or in the discussion forums (if you want others to weigh in), or in the sewer (if you want an audience).  In the workshops, all comments must ONLY and strictly be about the actual content of the poem, as in, how to help the author workshop the poem into its best possible version. 

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