Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
― Leonard Cohen
― Leonard Cohen
The life of a poet isn’t always great and this is the truth.
Whenever I think about writing something it’s all exciting and
fun but the minute I put my pen against paper, nothing comes to me and it can
get so frustrating along with all the pressures of writing something amazing
especially when there are a lot of people who love what you do.
Personally I don’t like the question “who’s your favorite
poet” – I don’t have one and if I did, shouldn’t I say myself... right?
And the reason I say I don’t have a favorite poet is
because I don’t read a lot of poetry, which is so bad but I would rather listen
to it or see a performance and every poet does something unique and different,
it's hard to just pick one…
After writing my first poetry series I realise I would
rather my poems relate every emotion I feel and for people to fully understand
my intentions. Art can always be misinterpret from the artist and it’s not a
problem but the messages within my poetry are so powerful to me, I want
everyone to receive it without confusion.
I am full of passion and love for whatever I choose to do in
life so my poetry or art must portray that.
I have been challenged to write something different apart
from love and heartbreak and it made me question myself... "Can I only write
poetry of that sort?" Honestly I wasn't happy about it because I consider
myself to be able to write about anything but sadly I realise I do only write
about love and heartbreak.
So I looked at all my young day’s poetry book and I was
writing about growing up, what I want to do, what kind of woman I’d be... and
then a light popped up over my head… I
write about whatever I am experiencing or what I feel strongly about and not to
say I don't feel strongly about anything else I do but I have or had a fear of
sharing those kind of poetry and get judged.
I met a guy called John who said "No poetry is shit
poetry, it's your emotion so it isn't shit" lol and I really appreciate
hearing that because it inspired me to just go for it without worries or
concern.
I will be writing and exploring more so over
the next couple of months, using different objects to compare to
an emotion and write around that using different life experiences of my own.
WATCH THE SPACE!
Theresa
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