Hello Lovely Steemians,
It's been around a week since I wrote my #introduceyourself and decided to give serious attention and time to my blog. I promised to share some of my poetry and the process that leads to creating my poems, where they come from and how I relate to them.
I've recently started writing poetry. I'm not very good at it, I'm not even sure if what I write can even be called poetry, but I keep doing it anyways.
It has turned out to be the most authentic and the most honest medium of expression for me. Probably the only way I allow my vulnerability to show, without having to fear, without having to hold back. Which is why my poetry is very personal, very confessional.
It allows me to say out loud things that I usually keep hidden inside, that aren't 'appropriate' for a usual conversation, that come off as either too threatening or too irrelevant.
I start writing when I feel a certain uncomfortable emotion or experience some profound thought, anything that stands out from how I usually feel or think. I try sticking to that feeling or thought and start exploring around it, to see if it's a standalone thought or emotion or is part of a chain of other connected thoughts and emotion. More often than not the exploration leads to a rush of interconnected feelings, ideas, thoughts, memories, observations, images, sounds, characters, and meanings.
I then try to gather all of these together, giving them some shape or form, trying to provide the right words and appropriate phrases, and bring some meaning and coherence, all the while keeping the main feeling or thought that led to the whole process in mind.
I know this process is not reliable for writing consistently or regularly, and I know it sometimes doesn't work leaving me in great frustration. Which is why i can only create when in a certain emotional state for it to be authentic, for it to be coming from a deep place within myself.
This process has always been very therapeutic for me as well. I am always able to feel much lighter, much clearer, and much more content with my state after I create something out of it.
I don't know what kinda poet that makes me, I'm not even sure if I'm ready to call myself a poet at all, but I do know that whatever I'm creating or writing helps me heal.
For the sake of consistency and regular postings, I'm starting a series of my poems called 'Unrequited Poems' where I'll be posting twice a week one of my poems, and will sometimes be talking about the personal significance of the message it holds within.
Hope you like the series and the work I share.
And please do leave comments letting me know if any of my work resonated with you, or made you feel something.
Lots of Love,
Saba <3