Writer's Block

Poetry Speaks

It's hard to put your feelings in poetry, maybe it will be too overwhelming, or the same as the one before. It's hard to share with strangers, will they feel the passion I'm pouring, or skip along because they're bored. Should I use a personal experience, maybe throw in a quote or two. Should I use a simile to explain, or compare tears on my cheeks with the morning dew. I could copy someone else, maybe steal a compelling line, but could I connect to my readers, when the words aren't even mine. What is my reason for writing? What am I saying with each of these lines? That's where I should start, explain my purpose and the reasons why. Maybe I'll start that another day, to show what truly makes these poems mine.

Reviews

[Kesha]

Loved it, this is exactly what I am feeling right at this very moment, and the poems you do write while experiancing writers block, typically never feel as though they are any good compared to your other works, at least to me that is.

[unspokenpain]

I know what you mean. After having my last writers block, I decided to write this. After that I chose to not write because I felt I had to or that I haven't updated in awhile, as "like you said" I felt my writing was not as good as my other works. So now I only try to write when I feel that inspiration. But I know writers block is something I will always feel once in awhile lol

[Kesha]

Lol yeah every writer does. But it shall soon pass. I actually wrote a piece I quite enjoyed. Have not posted it however

[unspokenpain]

better post it. Don't deny the world words that can inspire lives and creativity.

[Kesha]

Oh i will. Just needs a few tweaks first :P

[Anonymous]

I absolutely LOVED this poem! I don't have any constructive criticism, it just rang really true. All of us writers have for sure encountered this problem multiple times!

[unspokenpain]

Right! I wrote this because I was going through writer's block and didn't know what to write, which made me write about it. Haha

[Bacchus]

Truth, but not that original...
keep at it- read your book start- there is more originality there...

[wordman]

i guess that`s the job of the writer,to make the reader feel what you feel ..

[unspokenpain]

I wrote this while I was trying to think of what to write... if that train of logic makes sense. :D

[wordman]

makes sense to me,

[angelina neves]

lovely ideas ! and make curious of the promise you make:
"Maybe I'll start that another day,
to show what truly makes these poems mine."

[unspokenpain]

This was written before my poem "Poet's Mind" and that is... if you think of it as a story... the next part that shows what makes them mine in a sense. Thank you for the comment!