I’ve taken a different direction for this latest poetry blog. Where usually I’d have already written a poem and just dug it out from a notebook, today I’ve written a short poem especially for National Poetry Day. I gave myself a deadline before writing some of it down. Any changes or additions were then made when I typed this whole thing up. I hope you like it.
I only gave myself a short time to think and after trying to write something about Autumn, I abandoned it in favour of writing something about why I write poetry. So, here you go.
The words I'd never say Usually, it's the words I'd never say, too self conscious to just let them fly and only too aware of the stutter, the nerves and the glowing cheeks that would greet the rush of blood telling me that it was safe to speak. Sometimes, I'm lost in thought, my own little world and things I'd rather not share out loud. Futile really. Probably not even anything that anybody else would need to know, but it has to come out somewhere, somehow. Scrawled inky lines crawling across the page, filled with scribbles, arrows and asterisk allow the expression that otherwise would stay silent it could be the birds in the park or fears about health, or just about a day out that might have left its mark, this shy boy can still have his say.
I was never a one for writing poetry. There had been the odd one or two over the years, but they were never kept. And then lockdown happened and the words just began to flow. Now there are multiple notebooks with poems in various stages around out house. Hopefully, the poem fills you in a little bit as to why that is.
I didn’t know it was poetry day. The poem is great, the imagery is so good!
Thank you for sharing.
Lauren – bournemouthgirl
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Cheers!
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Another great poem. You say you weren’t ever one for writing poetry until lockdown but clearly there was something in you waiting to come out!
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Ha! Cheers!
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Awesome poetry. The Words I Never Say is a good title. Keep it up.
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