POETRY= SOUL

During the time we spent writing poetry I learned that it is all about you. Although not in the selfish way.

You write what you want to write about, because there's always a story lurking in your head. Poetry gives you the ability to write it and share it with like minded people. You want to write about a goat enjoying his space adventure; perfect! Also if you don't enjoy what you are writing then you will loose interest in a heart beat. You get to choose what to say and how you say it, whether it is all rhyming or a freeverse.

Nowadays we are so worried about making perfect sentences with stunning punctuation and grammar. We are losing the actual meaning behind the story. Poetry to me is a way to get that story telling back because the message is the most important part of a poem. No one is going to care if your stanza doesn't have perfect punctuation.

Lastly there is no wrong answer in poetry. Even if you are looking at someone else's poetry, you have to ask yourself, what you think it is trying to say.