Poetry is written humanity.
Good poetry must relate to the human condition.
Instructions on how to build a chair from Ikea are not poetry.
They do not make one experience humanity.
Good poetry must do
I can't find the word. I've tried to type that sentance so many times.
I can't get it all done. None of it is any good. I've been trying to write interesting or beautiful things on no energy during the time I should be asleep. I can't get it all done. I'm writing this at 11:22pm when I need 8 hours of sleep to properly fuction and I work at 7am tomorrow, then afterwork is the mother's day barbeque, I would feel like an asshole if I missed it. I can't even cry. My determination wont let me. All I am is a roiling mass of rage, misery, and determination. I don't have time for it all. I only have four things in my life: work, school, Kerrie, and dungeons and dragons. I can't drop any of them, I need the money, I need the future, I need the love, I need the escape. I can't maintain elloquency in exhuastion.
Good poetry must do one of these two or both of these two following things.
1. Make one think in an existential way. Search for meaning and value in a sea of seeming chaos.
This is one of the most essential parts of the human experience, it is directly related to our search in life for meaning.
2. Make one feel. Emotion is essential to the human experience, we have many various shades of emotion and it is our emotions which connect us all and our emotions which make us most human.
Phenomenal poetry or writing in general leaves a lasting impact on these two human functions within a human being. Phenomenal poetry either changes the way we imbue things with meaning in our lives, the way we see the world, or it changes the way we feel about the world around us, its varoius facets and situations.
I'm so tired, time to write the prompts I haven't had the chance to write yet. Atrium-something about brining together, i cant remember the other prompts to say what I plan to say about them.
Oh, poetry is also about self expression, relating yourself to the rest of the world, sharing whgat you think and feel with outhers so they can understand what can happen to people, what can be believed. So poetry shopuld also include a lagre bit of your persomnalo self, mistakes and all. Or maybeo I'm just too tired and lazy toi correct my mistackres now. Enjoy my work, and more importantly youre own. Maybe than one of us will.
I can't agree enough about how difficult the process of writing poetry can be, with so much happening right now. That can be poetry, too, the self-reflection, the struggle. Great job defining it; there are so many aspects of writing to explore. I'm going to go write a poem now.
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