What do you get out of writing poetry? (personally I mean and not in the financial sense). For me I find it enjoyable and a form of escapism.
Rach
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unchained soul
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A question for anyone who feels like answering it. Lol.
What do you get out of writing poetry? (personally I mean and not in the financial sense). For me I find it enjoyable and a form of escapism.
Rach
What do you get out of writing poetry? (personally I mean and not in the financial sense). For me I find it enjoyable and a form of escapism.
Rach
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seeksthebalance
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A chance to communicate things that my ordinary everyday voice cannot get across.
A good deal of fun as well, and escape as Bombadil so righly says.
Seeks
A good deal of fun as well, and escape as Bombadil so righly says.
Seeks
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Writing poetry is like any sort of craft - I get the enjoyment of making something out of my own skill, working on it until it becomes as good as it can be given the materials I started with. The word "poet" comes from the Greek "poenein" (sp?) which actually means "to make".
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ah. let me add to that:
I write to quiet my mind. I suffer from a mind that never stops, never wants to...so I struggle to occupy it...
writing seems an healthy way of doing so.
-K.
I write to quiet my mind. I suffer from a mind that never stops, never wants to...so I struggle to occupy it...
writing seems an healthy way of doing so.
-K.
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I know what you mean Keith. Mine is constantly whirring over things and I find poetry calms it alot. I guess it puts it all the rambling thoughts in some kind of order, controls them to a degree. Plus as Seek says I can express things I couldnt normally express in normal speech, well not without boring someone or feeling stupid lol.
Dillingworth - found your greek definition of poetry very interesting. I get pleasure from creating something in that way too.
Dillingworth - found your greek definition of poetry very interesting. I get pleasure from creating something in that way too.
i find it's an interesting way to see what my mind looks like from time to time
and keeping the whirring mind quiet and subdued is always a bonus
and keeping the whirring mind quiet and subdued is always a bonus
"Reality is a myth, albeit a very persistant one"
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I think about this sometimes, about what would happen if I was incarcerated and forbidden pens and paper. I would not so much go mad as become a mental troubadour, I think.
I like the hard work of it, the intellectual puzzle solving. Even if my main job was incredibly cerebral, I would still want to write poems. I like going back to them from a few or several years ago, like a snapshot of how your life was then, or just a moment of it.
They're great for revenge, too.
I like the hard work of it, the intellectual puzzle solving. Even if my main job was incredibly cerebral, I would still want to write poems. I like going back to them from a few or several years ago, like a snapshot of how your life was then, or just a moment of it.
They're great for revenge, too.