On Writing Your Own Poetry
Why should you write your own poetry? For most of my life I didn’t think much of poetry, I much preferred prose. I found hard to read. There were only a few poems that I understood or liked written by poets such as Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, or T S Eliot. But I’ve been home a lot lately so I’ve had the time look at poetry again. And I have found that writing my own poetry is fun and rewarding. I believe that if you try it, you will find this too. My first poems were pretty bad. I wrote them down and then forgot them. Luckily I saved them. Year later I went back and re-wrote them and they have become some my favorites Here is a poem I wrote 20 years ago, Lunch Hour in the City I escape my office to walk a busy street, Through a stream of people in the summer’s heat. Silent faces in a human hive, Does anyone here know that I’m alive? Cars go by in transparent smoke. Their fumes are making me cough and choke. Demolition workers laugh, they’re having fun,
