Why I write poetry?
Writing is cathartic. I’m at one with myself. It’s peaceful, and it takes me to different places. Places that ordinarily would not have explored. I used to write a lot many years ago and then, with being married and having children, it stopped. It took me many years before I started writing poetry and prose again. It was a friend who inspired me to write a few years ago. I am so grateful for his words of encouragement and I wouldn’t be writing today if it wasn’t for his kind words. Thank you. You know who you are.
My first piece of writing was a book which I still have not completed yet, but eventually will finish it. However, I went onto poetry writing and found it cathartic and healing. I had forgotten how valuable this could be.
It was an outlet for my emotions, passions, appetite for love and life.
Writing poetry sets me free.
I would encourage everybody to write even it’s just a few lines to sit down, go to a different world and place and be yourself. For me, it’s a healing, powerful and an uplifting experience.
It’s your best friend and it will never let you down and it will listen to your voice and your voice will be listened too.
I also love reading poetry. I love to listen and hear different words of other people’s emotions, and journeys in life. Every poem has a message in it and…