 |
| original work by Christine I Steeves Speakman |
What exactly is poetry? Nah, I know how to answer: What is poetry to me?
It’s emotionally filled words floating on the page in no order other than what my mind feeds my hand to type or write.
They have no explanation. They have no rules. They have no definition except what the reader feels.
Sometimes the words come from my heart. Sometimes they come from what I see. Sometimes they’re the smoothest avenue for me to process the world’s happening.
I don’t rhyme. I don’t count for a rhythm. I write what fits my ear…my energy at that moment.
And then, when I move to be more serious about the prose, I edit.
Yes, even poetry and prose needs edits.
It’s fine to let the words out. To let them fall where they may, but even then they can be polished to a brilliant strength.
In a nutshell, this is what poetry and prose is to me.
Keep writing!
***
What is Poetry Starts?
…poems and prose from now back to teen years
…remembering a first writing love
…pumping the creative well yet again
…silencing the internal critic