Poetry

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   Sugar Sueposted 13 years ago

   Do you express yourself better through writing? Is it therapy for you to write down what's in your heart? Do you relate with others through reading their writings,poems, or lyrics? Check it out. Express yourself or find yourself.

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      ahorsebackposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Yes , Yes , Yes.

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         Sugar Sueposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Cool Yes

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      suncatposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I relate to others if they write something that touches me and sometimes I write myself.
      
      I just wrote this as my responce to someone who wanted to know if we like sunset or sunrise better.
      
      And sinse you're asking to try expressing yourself, here's my try
      
      I like sunset, I like sunrise
      
      I like it all, I think it's wise
      
      I like to watch the birds in fly
      
      I like... I don't know why...
      
      I'm just that kind of a girl
      
      Who likes what's beautiful and all...
      
      I'm not an early bird myself
      
      So sunset is when I meet my Elf,
      
      Sunrise is when I often sleep,
      
      But then sometimes I hear beep
      
      That comes from a neighbor's wake up call
      
      That's when I see sunrise and all... )
      
      
      
      
      

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         Sugar Sueposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         awesome! I like that

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            suncatposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I like it that u like it <3

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      dutchman1951posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      very much so, yes

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      duffsmomposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      My emotions drive my writing and oddly enough I seem to express myself more vividly when I am sad or depressed.

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      Insight1987posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I only care about being good, as well as having fun.
      
      A lot of what I write, I have no emotional connection to one way or the other. It's just not as important as quality, especially since I don't need any of its therapeutic benefits.
      
      In the end, quality is remembered, and the rest is remaindered.

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   jessica.written.posted 13 years ago

   expression is a way to get out problems of any sort. insecurities within yourself, worldly problems, family fights, beautiful nights and glorious kisses. you can write it all. its dreaming wide awake.
   
   
   I am just a woman by: this girl with two thumbs (me)
   
   
   i have curves
   
   wide hips, a strong build
   
   i am just a woman
   
   so dont look at me with those eyes
   
   that judge
   
   those eyes that seek imperfections
   
   i eat when my tummy rumbles
   
   sure, i could lose a pound or two
   
   maybe ten
   
   maybe twenty if i want to reach perfection
   
   in those eyes that look to kill
   
   in your eyes
   
   but i wont, because i am just a woman
   
   i have curves
   
   and i like my wide hips, my strong build
   
   im not just a sack of bones for you to push around
   
   i am a woman
   
   that has her cake and eats it too
   
   so dont look at me with those eyes
   
   you dog like men
   
   because when you do
   
   i'm looking straight back at you

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      Sugar Sueposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Wonderful Jessica!  It is true for me. Writing is my therapy!  I can relate with what you wrote, as can many women. Those who are constantly looking to judge others should be handled like an unfriendly dog. "Never let them smell your fear"

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      duffsmomposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      reminds me of Lucille Clifton's famous poesm Homeage to My Hips.  Wonderful piece here.

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   Stump Parrishposted 13 years ago

   I wander thru life in a state of perpetual confusion searching for moments of clarity. These I write down.

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   Beth100posted 13 years ago

   Yes! 

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   Ellarose92posted 13 years ago

   this was an easy answer yes!! sometimes i hear a song and its exactly everything going on in my life right now, samething with poetry and writing in general im able to express myself more through my writing

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   Awakened Lightposted 13 years ago

   "Your Eyes...Your Smile..."
     by AwakenedLyte
   
   
   
   
   Eyes like freedom, for I see in them escape,
   I see in them the weight of this world existing within the next.
   Eyes like, just what I needed.
   Like more than I would expect.
   Like the freshness of a summer breeze.
   Like how wind rustles leaves
   As it moves in-between here and there.
   Or like when a few strands of hair
   covers one side.
   like the eyes I see
   when you lay to sleep at night...
   that's what your eyes are like.
   
   A smile like fresh rain on a dry day,
   like going out of the way to say something nice,
   like playing hide and go seek ‘til the street light come on,
   like hearing your favorite song goin' all night long,
   like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds after a storm, 
   like waking into a dream;
   that's what your smile,
   That’s what your eyes,
   their shine is like to me.

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   RedElfposted 13 years ago

   fabulous poetry - and now I have found more writers to visit - thanks, Sugar Sue!
   

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   Lisa HWposted 13 years ago

   I express my ideas better in writing, just because there's more time to craft the words.  I'm not all that bad expressing myself in person either, though (although if things get aggressive or unreasonable in person I'm not great at being equally aggressive or unreasonable).
   
   The only way I find writing at all therapeutic is that I enjoy doing it, and any time we engage in an activity we enjoy it can be therapeutic in some ways.  I never writing anything that has any emotional impact for me.  My writing is all an "intellectual process".  Some of my writing appears to be "written from the heart" because I wait until emotional stuff is old and processed and neatly filed away in "mental files".  Then, if I want to write something as a way of trying to "reach out" to readers, I dig out and dust off those old things I once felt.  Everything I write is true, and I use memory to find the words for emotions-related subject.
   
   Still, unless some emotional subject is ancient history enough that it means no more to me than, say, the color of my hair or my zip code; I won't write about.  I generally keep the things that involve ongoing emotional impact on me to myself.  To me, they mean too much to me to be posting on the Internet. 

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   know oneposted 13 years ago

   I don't know that I express myself better in writing, it's just I can be less reactive to the moment; I have more control over the subject matter. I enjoy being in that place where the heart meets the mind - and I like to visit that place in others; I like to see the passion come through and it usually overrides any imperfections for me.

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      Leptirelaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I Love writing
      
      I must stress it,
      
      I feel an urge
      
      to express it.
      
      Its not just about how i feel
      
      Its about the way
      
      we can escape whats real.
      
      I love to think of dreams , love
      and happy endings.
      
      Love to heal a soul,
      
      and other kind of mendings.
      
      I want my words to touch your heart
      
      Right to the end from the word start.
      
      I write about honey, love , birds and the sea
      I write about everything
      that means so much to me.
      
      So just sit down under the loney tree,
      
      Whisper a 'hello'
      
      and set your thoughts free.
      
      Jot a few words and see how you feel,
      because the way am
      feeling right now
      is better than fantasy.

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    Astra Nomikposted 13 years ago

    Poetry is an answer to life. We see more of our reflection with poetry, it reveals what is really in our heart. To us and everyone. I love poetry.

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       Leptirelaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Well said Astra Nomik

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    zampanoposted 13 years ago

    Those who love poetry
    Even though in that respect
    They would bear no ancestry
    Keeping the rime correct
    Revealing wits in artistry
    Uttering words that souls affect
    
    They cast a bright light reflect
    Opon this virtual mind where we connect
    

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    chisom emmanuelposted 13 years ago

    at times poetry just keep falling on my mind and i have no choice than to express it by writing them as the come. when i give them to people for reveiw and they like it then i have related to them and i am happy. so also i read the poems of people and i am so inspired i find like minds in them

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