Tuesday, November 29, 2011

I'm Poeming It Up Again

So I wrote a poem last night. This is good, because before then the last poem I wrote was months and months ago and I really wasn't satisfied with it or any of the other poems I'd written around that time. I made a blog post about it. But it's back; the writing spirit. Of course, this is just one poem, but I like it. It's good. I'm hoping this'll lead to a fast and furious cranking out of poetry from me. As for the poem itself, it's a love poem, in that it deals with love. And I had an interesting revelation after completing it: I cannot write a love poem that does not contain sadness. I'm sure a psychiatrist would have tonnes of things to tell me, but when I write about love it always is tainted with sadness. Just an interesting observation I've had, but I just can't write a straightforward, happy poem about love. Probably because I believe love doesn't happen in a straightforward, happy way. That's not it's nature. Anyways, point is: I'm writing again. Huzzah.