Today while I was sitting in my Advance Placement Literature class we read and broke down a poem call "A Dialogue between the Soul and Body" ( Andrew Marvell). Now up to this point in my young adult life I hate a pretty strong dislike for poetry.
Why you might ask?
Well, because its stupid (or was stupid). I did not understand anything about it... I felt that you could LITERALLY put anything down on a piece of paper call it poetry and you were an artist.
Another thing I found to be odd is that you could take anything away from it. I have always been a pretty logical and straight forward thinker, not really ever thinking outside of the box.
It wasn't until after class when my friend Frances explained to me in depth what the poem actually meant, (I refuse to elaborate for fear of spoiling it). It was the single best thing I have ever read and the poem brought tears to my eyes, as I stood in the far back left of my schools library my view on everything had changed forever.
Poetry is not just random words on paper that are jumbled together for the sake of jumbling things together.
Poetry is this beautiful, musical art with which are expressed in words.
Poetry is opens you up to feelings, poetry can take you into to the deepest parts of your mind.
Poetry is where you go when you are afraid, poetry can release this courageous lion inside of you.
At the beginning I sat down and wanted to write a poem about my dad. But my fingers would not move to the keys I desired them to go to.
I just simply sat at my desk chair, looked at my screen and pondered on what to write, even though I know what I truly want to write about.
As I keep exploring my new passion for this amazing art, I hope one day, I also have the courage to write my deepest feelings.
I want to write about my daddy issues, my feeling fat issues, my self- confidence issues. I want to write about my goals, my fear, my love, my hate.
I want to write poetry.
I want to open myself up to truly feeling.
I want to be honest.
Here are some links to poems I recommend:
