HI im a hurricane katrina victim and before katrina hit i used to love writing poems?
but every since then it just feels as though it doesn’t excite me as it use to i wrote over 20 poems but the day Katrina hit i through my poem book into the flood waters thinking it was the end of the world and that it was going to be useless to me. Wat do you guys think i should do i really enjoy writing but i’m afraid to write anymore.
- markell d
Tags: Flood Waters, Hurricane Katrina Victim, Love Poems, Poem Book, Writing Poems
May 28th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Take up thy pen and write and put your fear behind you. Better still put your fear in the form of a poem for all of us to read. There is nothing like getting it out of the system.
Robert
May 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
You’ll get over it. You can’t stop poetry from happening – it’s pretty much like breathing. Think about where the book of poems you threw away ended up – maybe someone found it, dried it off, and reads it now, wondering what has happened to the writer (you). Fear won’t stop you from writing. Only lack of inspiration will – in fact, fear is great at inspiring heroic efforts. You’ve probably got a lot to say by now – don’t keep it bottled up. Stop letting the “deadness” that flooded you keep you from living now. You survived! You’re here! Just write.
May 31st, 2009 at 4:22 am
I don’t blame you for being afraid–writing poetry can be very scary, and the better a poem is, the more it can frighten you. I think that every good writer has been afraid to write, just like every actor has suffered from stage fright.
The key is to write something, anything–a letter, a journal or a blog entry, then when you feel ready, read back through it and see what you can make into a poem. Remember, if you have poems inside you, they are poems no one else in the world can write.
Best of luck.