Poetic Shutterbug

A Writer At Heart Words emotional expressions inherent deep within spirit. Passion are these words undeniably expressed, shared, proclaimed in stanzaic precision. The writer sensitive, intuitive feelings arise, awaken born from within depths of the soul. A soul unknown if not for their words. Ego revisited firmly understood and happily embraced. The writer paints words with a knowing of authentic self creatively expressed. Memories, dreams parade the mind as streaming videos. These visual scenarios breathe life into the heart and have no choice but to be reborn. Reflections a glimpse into the heart where the writer resides words a mirror to the soul. A soul which lives within the mind without fear. The heart pumps words through the veins never missing a beat. And the writer writes to a different beat only he hears.

I have come across so many poets who tell me that they have hundreds of poems that they have written yet have never done anything with them. The poems are kept in boxes or folders and left there never to be born much like a bird in a cage never to be set free. The comments I hear are “they are just too personal for me” or “No one would understand them.” Let’s take a look at each argument. They are just too personal. As writers everything we write has a personal element to it and as poets we express our deepest thoughts and feelings by writing these personal words. I’m not saying you have to dust off those poems and start submitting them for publication but to leave them grow old and unseen to me is a grave mistake. What you have to realize is that because they are so personal and drawn from life experience, by showing them to the world you may just help someone else. The second argument “No one will understand them." Understanding poetry has nothing to do with trying to ...