Young poets unite. We will be discouraged. We will be told that the world has enough poetry, enough metaphors and rhymes. We've got enough history and enough poetry, the world doesn't need any more rhymes. I'm here to remind you that every single word you write and rhyme you make is a shout into a dark, dark pit. Whether it be into that lace your writing from or into the world's abyssal perception of poetry. Don't let them knock off your beautiful rose-colored glassed. Find words in laughter and see ellipses on smile lines. Wipe away some stories on your tears, They say that artists create their best work when in their lowest points but that isn't the same for us. We can take all emotion and create beautiful knots of verse with them. We don't need to cry in order to write. We need to have enough emotion built up in our bloodstream and heart and mind for our insistent fingers to shake until we can get it all out onto paper. We need to feel the wind passing over our fingers with our crazy, quick writing. We don't write for anyone but ourselves. We write because our need for release is greater than our need for acceptance. We write because we're stuck in between the tension of wanting to communicate and wanting to hide. We write because we have so much overwhelming emotion and we write because if we don't get these emotions off your chest, we'll never able to breathe.
Poetry is for those of us that feel we can only speak in honesty to our paper and with our voice as a pen. Poetry is for those of us that can't write but need to relate. Poetry is for the ones that can't rhyme one word with another but can listen and can understand. When they say "we don't need any more poets," know that they mean "we need to understand poetry better." Don't be scared of the beauty coming out of that creative mind of yours. Put it on paper. share it, give the world a taste of its own medicine. We aren't writing to keep people comfortable. We're writing to shake things up a bit. We're writing to relieve stress, let's write to change. Let's write to put stress on matters that need it.
And so, young poets,
here is the part where I ask something of you, as all good articles do.
Write. As much as you can, about whatever you can, for as long as you can.
Share them or keep them personal.
Just write.
We're all struggling, some more than others. We're all pushing and living and doing our best with what we're given. Ease up on yourself. If you're life doesn't end up the way you wanted it to, it's because you listened to someone that wasn't you. If you end up with a life you're unsatisfied with, it's because you became one of the people that decided we don't need poets anymore.
Write because we do need this. We need this more than can be expatiated. We write because we feel and we live and we breathe.
So young poets, as long as your breathing; let your breaths rhyme and your knotty hair be a metaphor and let your smiles be synonyms with sunshine.
