Poetry of the soul

The best poetry I ever wrote was when I was in love. Which is in itself a romantic idea, but also true. I worked harder on the poems than I ever had and was able to articulate my feelings accurately. Most of my other poetry is stupid and angsty, as I was young and emotional when I wrote it. I didn't know what poetry was back then. I thought it was all about rhyme.

I still prefer poems with rhymes now, but I know that isn't all that matters when it comes to poetry. There's metre, imagery, language... Things I'm not as practised in. The room for improvement is probably the size of a palace and I hope to at least make this a large mansion by the end of the year. That's right. My New Year's resolution isn't to be kinder, or healthier, or give less attitude. Those are things I want to do anyway. My New Year's resolution is to write more poetry.

My poetry is typically personal, way more personal than my stories. I've written poems for people that I wouldn't dare show them. For some of them it's because it will hurt their egos, but for others it's because I reveal too much of myself in them. I expose myself in my poems.

Okay, I just realised how wrong that sounds, but trust me on this. If you want to learn my soul, read my poems. (But seriously, don't.) I'm going to work on my poetry, and make it a lot more public-friendly. I've wanted to get into spoken word poetry for some time now, so maybe this year could be the year I finally do it. Onwards and upwards.

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Now, this isn't part of my blog post, but it's something that has to be done. I just want to write a ma-HOO-sive thank you to all my friends who were there for me in 2012 when things got rough especially my closest friend Ema. I haven't always been the friend that I should have been and I'm working on it. I've been taking you for granted and I'm sorry. You're the person I can always depend on and you just being there and being you means a lot to me.