Poetry, why is it that we must write it? There is definitely not a lot of money to be had by selling a book of verses.
'publishing a box of verses is like dropping a rose petal down the grand canyon and waiting for the echo'- Don Marquis
We're definitely will not be rolling around in our money chambers like that of Scrooge McDuck's, that's for sure. Possibly back
in the old, old olden days before the inventions of tv's, radios, and other things that took the joy and entertainment, even the learning from reading. that, poems have, and did make a pretty penny. Though knowing that we are not going to become rich off doing this but yet we still do.
in the old, old olden days before the inventions of tv's, radios, and other things that took the joy and entertainment, even the learning from reading. that, poems have, and did make a pretty penny. Though knowing that we are not going to become rich off doing this but yet we still do.
Robert Frost said; " Poetry is when an emotion has found it's thought, and the thought has found words."
I know for me when matters of the heart begin wearing me down almost as if holding me against my own will, in order to keep itself deep and quietly in me. It is for me moments such as these my poetry becomes overwhelmingly powerful. This is when I begin ripping out my own heart and thus pouring out ever lat bit of my own soul upon the paper, for all the world to see and bare with me. So the main reason we write is because it is therapeutic. There are numerous emotional and mental benefits to writing poetry. Holding it it all in will do nothing but bring you down to the deepest depth, holding you there till you can no longer take it and then with not a fight left in you devours you. there is no good to come from holding it in.
Poetry can help build a bridge of meaning between the worlds beauty and life's meaning, while providing an expressive form of art. while building real, true emotional honesty. Emotions are the fuel that ignites us and gives us the fire needed to breath life unto the poems that we write. This also helps the person reading it as well, not only are they feeling your words and understanding where you are or in their minds think you are going within your writing, they could also feel a bit freed if only momentarily from and event that had happen similar to them as well, and not having the words nor the knowledge or just the mere birthed of the gift of writing from the soul could in come ways have a piece of mental and or spiritual freeing from that moment and know that they to are not alone, showing, poetry not only can help the writer but the reader as well. Reading a poem that you, yourself wrote through hard, distraught, trying time can be one of the bravest moments of your life. Causing an ever awakening of courage.
'Within the courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to his madness'- Christopher Morley