Hunt for poets - share you poetry with me!

[melindemari]

So I started out writing with poetry at the end of 2006 and more so in 2007, and still today I find myself writing poems when supposed to be focused on my novels...

Was wondering who else here writes poetry and if you post them up on Tapas as "novels"
Share your "poetry" stories with me!

Here's my collection of poetry - in no particular order, all of it will be posted here

Poems from my Heart | Tapas

[Testaccount]

I love poems, too, and I'm sure you've seen my collection, but I'll post it here:

Poems of my Memories | Tapas

I find writing poetry relaxes me after a stressful situation, and I want to publish a book of poems one day.

[melindemari]

Same here; when I started writing poetry it was after my Afrikaans teacher saw something in me and wanted to... I don't know... "teach" me something? She got me involved in poetry by having me learn a poem off by heart to say up front on stage during a cultural festival, in front of judges and everything... and me... well I've a bit of a problem speaking in front of people even more so when centre of attention (stage fright)

After that day I was hooked (got A+ - boo-ya!!!) and something clicked... I found a way to communicate not with others but with my emotions itself! And that was priceless to me!

And because of that I too want to publish a book of poetry as well, not for fame or glory, but because I hope to inspire others as the poem my teacher chose out for me.

[joe_galindez]

Same here

when I started writing poetry
it was after my Afrikaans teacher saw something in me

and wanted to
I don't know

"teach" me something

She got me involved in poetry
by having me learn a poem off by heart

to say up front on stage
during a cultural festival
in front of judges and
everything

and me
well I've a bit of a problem speaking in front of people
even more so when centre of attention

(stage fright)

[Testaccount]

I loved the way you explained writing poetry - communicating with the emotiones themselves.

Beautiful!

[melindemari]

Wow! Joe you got talent!

I might just use this idea of yours for my own "stage fright" poem

So what really got you involved in poetry? What does it mean to you?

[joe_galindez]

I wrote poems as a kid. Most of them were derivative and all of them were terrible. But I enjoyed being able to communicate things in as few words as possible. Poetry is all about imagery and emotion and I like to think I brought those over to my fiction-writing.

I don't write things that rhyme anymore. These days my stuff is about flow, and also white space as it applies to the written word.

[melindemari]

Most of my poems (that will post as well) I think are "childish" and horribly written as well, but I love them non-the-less, if not more!

I at a time thought everything needed to rhyme as well as that was what was being thought in the language classes (Afrikaans and English) "Rhyme" but after when I saw this one movie... Forester "or something" ; "or something" Forester (can't remember precisely now) and then finding a book that my dad has (book no 10 of an encyclopaedia collection) this book had so many folk lores, stories and poems in it I realised that I didn't need "rhyme" but still I didn't like "language" classes much and thus though "reading" & "writing" was a waste of effort.

If not for my mom saving me from finishing (getting to the "good parts") of a super romance book and getting my own book(s) to read, I wouldn't have learned to love reading and not for my Afrikaans teacher getting me involved in poetry the way she did I would not have started writing and so I find it interesting how people can help form your personality, your love for certain "things" or help you develop your own "talents".

Thinking about it, singing is thanks to my dad who loves music, and my family who always sings hymns.
My love for Photography is form my mom who was and still is the one behind the camera cause she doesn't like her picture taken and who takes pictures of us at the worst times (Always when we about to eat or drink )
Painting thanks to mom who took me to buy stuff when was bored in a hotel room (same as with the romance book... was bored and nothing to do...

Every little thing starts somewhere and looking on it all you can write poems filling enough pages to take you to the sun and back with all these little emotions and memories you experienced in your life thanks to the people in your life or absent from it!
And then the very poem you write can connect with others in a completely different way than intended when you wrote it! So that's why poetry remains my favourite pastime writing relieve to today!

[375]

Er Im not too sure if Freedom is classified as poetry. I try to use the technique to tell a story in a different way and just modify it as I go But hey I'll share it I guess! You can yell at me if it isnt defined as Poetry!

What Is The Price of Freedom? | Tapas

[Rhombik]

I'm a crossword junkie and I occasionally turn the finished ones into poems as a hobby. The idea is that you've got to use as many words from the crossword as possible and you can't add or change them. You get weird stuff like:

Suburban Narcissus

STREETLIGHTs, badly formed like spring flowers,
having nothing inside,
exhibit a soft white mass.
The instrument’s musical PURR sweet-talks STRANGERS.
People you don’t know scheme in odd bits of
urban illumination,
MOUTH an exclamation of agreement into
small rectangular ORGANS.
Happening somewhere else a feline shows
total engrossment in a narrow container
for milk.
But it is QUITE EMPTY.
FISSURES in the CURD are like MISSHAPEN SCRAP PAPER.
Impossible to mind;
The SUBURBS are SPELLBINDING.

The capitalised words were the answers.

[Vanzish]

I like playing with words a lot and sometimes i write short poems, but i don't think i'm that good. I guess they're just thoughts passing by! They might sound a little miserable ;v; sorry

There it is again.
When my skin cracks up
Tar leaks and then
In vain i hold a cup
To fill it and poison myself
With my own despair.

~o~

Mental Rejuvenation

The mind, just like any beautiful flower
Shall grow and prosper.
And like any flower,
It needs not be clouded.

Let light touch your mind.

~o~

My heart is that of stone
Yet shatters in my hand
Because my wonderland
Is just a fault zone.

~o~

The only touch i feel on my face
Is that of tears sliding down my temples
While i watch a ceiling that, even plain,
Feels less empty compared to me.

[melindemari]

It reads like a story still but really unique way to write, so I'm not sure either, but either way I like it! XD

[melindemari]

That's so cool!

I suck at crossword puzzles, but to make poems from them - this is fantastic!!! I love it!

[melindemari]

I like it, everyone has their own style and mind to write, doesn't make it any less beautiful when put in words!

I love the part of the heart - like stone, yet shatters like stone, because my wonderland is just a fault zone...

That is so creatively put and it resonates with me!

[Rhombik]

Haha thanks! It can be a bit hit or miss. Fun though.

[joe_galindez]

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