- Books, Literature, and Writing
Poetry and Emotion
Some people say that poetry comes from the soul or the rather than the mind. Is that where it comes from? I would like to think so. It's those moments where you feel the smoothest breeze in the air flow gently above your chest, or through your hair. You melt into the arms of your pen and paper, and let the words drift off your fingertips. Words seem to flow out of your mind like having the most wonderful dream lift you up in ecstasy. after all, how do we express ourselves without some form of language.
Poetry can be considered the language of love... but it can also hold darkness and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe was a fantastic example of that! Although writing works best when you feel the emotions, nobody knows if he was a depressed man.
Darkness trembles in my heart,
When I see him alone with you.
Disfigure him as if with magic,
And make the sun vanish too.
I'm dreaming, wishing you were here,
Under the dark wings of my crow.
Show me freedom with your breath,
Strike the bow with its arrow.
-Brandon J Martin
I was happy when I just wrote this, yet I felt the rage in my fingertips. Similar to the thought of having more than one brain? We write songs as poetry, remember quizzes better when we make them rhyme... A poem is a manipulable art. A poem may be an art of expression, a written art, an art of memorization.
To a writer, a poem is a fire that burns deep inside the soul, hungering for emotion, hungering for power, and the will to be free when written. It is more than just a few words placed together to make a rhyme. When a poem is written, it seems to have its own pulse, its own beat, its own emotions and world. This world is meant to swallow up a reader and leave them with understandings and questions. What was the poet feeling, thinking, desiring...? But most of all... What does it make the reader feel?
The reader is just as important as the writer. Who would bring these emotions, these worlds, or these characters to life if there was no reader? ... Does a reader need to be good at reading to Feel what an author feels in a poem?... the poem is only as good as its reader, because the reader is the one bringing everything to life once again.
Tell me what Poetry really is in your own words. What is it?
- Brandon J Martin
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