(I Need To Be) Poetry

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

I wanna die in the arms of life
and be reborn with the sun.
I wanna breathe light,
Feel light
And enlight it all.

I want to cure wounds -
with nothing but words.
I want to give for free
the script of my soul -
Then I'm whole.

I need to be poetry -
not only poetic.
I despise rhymes,
while I love rhymes -
Imitation is limitation
But coincidence
is such a dear shelter.

I take contradiction as a bless
While I anticipate the worst
Hoping for the best
I paint a beautiful oblivion,
a flawed miracle;
It's all inside my head.

I am the dawn and the dew -
Perfectly imperfect -
Oh, the shadow never rest.
I know sometimes silence tells
the best tales
Let me write though,
I won't say words
But let me be - words.

Let me react, let me object
Never an inbetweener,
just a painful dreamer
who tries to skip bad reality
like kids do their skipping
in the backyard.

I just want to heal - and be real
I'll leave behind the rough draft of me
Recreate - reinvent - rewrite
Finally - break free -
And finally - maybe - be
An infinite piece of
poetry.

Author's Note

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth"

Reviews

[Angela]

Ahh. I think this is the best poem you have written Katrina. I love it." a flawed miracle. It's all inside my head" divine. My only though would be to replace the wort enlight either to enlighten if that is what you mean, or to illuminate or something without the word light in it because you have life, light, and light already in the same stanza and it detracts from the beauty of the meaning. Way to go!

[trainwreck]

As always, a beautiful and perfect job. I'm glad you sent this to me. The pacing was very clean, and the punctuation was actually varied AND appropriate-- something rare on WC. Again, lovely write.

[Robin]

"I know sometimes silence tells
the best tales
Let me write though,
I won't say words
But let me be - words. "

love those lines

[shedevil]

very nice

[These Haunted Hallways]

Brilliant :) It definitely shows of being true and being creative on all 8 cylinders. It goes to strengths unheard of, and shines onto everything. Very cool piece :)

M.

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

A great poem you put together, well done.

[Ashley]

This is one of the BEST poems, I have EVER read, I'm speechless..

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

I am the dawn and the dew - perfectly imperfect - what a perfect piece....incredible!

[Adelia Alighieri]

I love this thing, this defines who I am. I guess I've always tried to write something based on this but never could. Now I know why there's only one person par excellence who creates something unique. Just like everyone else.

[sushi]

Too beautiful!

"I wanna die in the arms of life
and be reborn with the sun.
I wanna breathe light,
Feel light
And enlight it all. ""

[V.B.]

"I want to cure wounds - with nothing but words." Absolutely phenomenal. Seriously well done--both an incredibly poignant line and an absolutely gorgeous sentiment.

You may want to change the second line to say "and be reborn with the sun." It currently reads "and I wanna reborn."